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This account of the contents of the volume is very in- 

 adequate, as well as erroneous. There seems but little reason 

 to think that the book contains a copy of any part of the 

 Psalter of Cashel, although that celebrated Collection is 

 sometimes referred to or quoted ; no traces of the book of St. 

 Mochuda, or the Chronicles of Cong, are now to be found in 

 the volume ; if Tully Conry therefore was not mistaken, there 

 is ground to suspect that the MS. may have lost something 

 since the foregoing account of its contents was written. 



On the upper and lower margins, in several places, there 

 are entries and memorandums by various possessors of the 

 book, which serve to give us its history, and to fix the date 

 of a great part of the documents of vvhich it consists. The 

 most remarkable of these entries must now be noticed. 



1. On the lower margin of fol. 4, b, there is the following 



note, which is here given in the original, with a translation : 



Op anoro DO pijpaio m'=. A prayer here for Sighraidh 



peam, m'. ropna, m^ riiuoilin son of John, son of Torna, son 



moip ui niail-connipe, pil aj 

 lepujOD an libaippe do muipip 

 m*^. romaip.i. mpla DepmujTian, 

 511 p pe an e op jeibcine a . . . . 

 caici na beallcaine cop eip 

 oetpceapc epmn oa piapujuo 

 icep jallojup jaeiDil. 



of Mailin Mor O'Mulconry; who 

 is restoring this book for Mau- 

 rice, son of Thomas, i. e. the 

 Earl of Desmond, who is now 



residing at Askeaton at 



the beginning of May, after the 

 south of Ireland has submitted 



to him both English and Irish. 



2. Another entry of a similar kind occurs on the lower 

 margin of fol. 34, as follows : 



Op. inpo Dom pecip .1. TTIuipip 

 m'' comaip, m*^ pemaip, in ci o'ap 

 leipujiupan becpo cuaple opoc 

 inpcpumencaib. 



A prayer here for my patron (?), 

 i. e. Maurice, son of Thomas, 

 son of James, the person for 

 whom I am restoring the little 

 portion above, with bad instru- 

 ments. 



The Maurice mentioned in these extracts was the tenth 



