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to count six score to the hundred ; and it is curious that if we 
count the volume so, the number of leaves it now contains 
will be exactly seven score and one; so that, on this supposi- 
tion, the volume has remained uninjured for the last two hun- 
dred years. 
III. The next part is a collection of the Lives of Saints, 
not all in the same hand. The name of the scribe is not given, 
but the great mass of this part of the manuscript appears to 
be in the hand of William Mac an Legha. It contains the 
following tracts : ' 
1. Life of St. Maighnen, Abbot and Founder of Kilmain- 
ham, near Dublin. 
2. Life of St. Mochua, founder of the Church of Timohue, 
in the Queen’s County. 
3. Life of St. Senan, of Scattery Island, in the mouth of 
the Shannon. 
4. Life of St. George. 
5. Life of St. Gregory the Great. 
6. Life of St. Longinus, who pierced our Saviour’s side on 
the Cross, and became blind in consequence, but was converted 
to Christianity. 
7. Life of St. Juliana. 
8. Life of the four Donalds. A Legend, which begins by 
telling us of three students who came from the diocese of Con- 
nor to be educated by Maolsuthan O Carroll, of the Eogha- 
nacht of Loch Lein, and abbot of Inisfallen in the Lake of 
Killarney. This Maolsuthan, the story tells us, was spiritual 
director to Brien, son of Kennedy, i. e. to Brien Boru. 
9. A Legend of Nicomedes, or Joseph of Arimathea. 
10. Life of St. Columba or Columbkille. Followed by 
the curious legend of the saint, whilst he resided in the 
island of Aran in the bay of Galway: a tract of which we 
know no other copy. 
11. The Legend of the Seven Sleepers. This tract ends 
imperfect, some leaves being lost, between fol. 57 and 58 of 
the manuscript. 
