PROCEEDINGS 
OF 
THE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 
1846, No. 53. 
April 27. 
REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., President, in the 
Chair. 
Dr. Todd gave an account of an Irish Manuscript pre- 
served in the Royal Library, Paris. Ancien Fond. No. 8175. 
After refuting the conjecture of M. Champollion Figeac, 
that this is the identical volume which was sent from Bre- 
tagne by M. de Robien to Paris, for the use of the Benedic- 
tine authors of the Nouveau Traité de Diplomatique, Dr. 
Todd proceeded to give an account of the contents of the ma- 
‘ nuscript. 
It is a parchment volume, containing now 117 leaves small 
folio, or what modern booksellers would perhaps call imperial 
octavo size. It was found by the Revolutionary Commis- 
sioners, during the French Republic, in some house in Paris, 
and by them deposited in the National Library, as is attested 
by a curious note inserted in the volume, in the handwriting 
of M. Villebrune, then Librarian or Conservator of that Insti. 
tution. Of its previous history nothing is known, except what 
may be gathered from a few entries made by the original scribes 
and some of its possessors. 
The volume may be divided into seven portions, which 
are, in fact, different works, having been written by different 
scribes, and at different times, although now bound together, 
These are : 
VOL. Ill. T 
