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LV. The next portion of the volume contains three theolo- 
gical treatises : 
1.. A Sermon on the verse Novet in principio vigoris mei. 
The initial letter N (which M. Champollion has mistaken 
_ for F) is illuminated in red and ornamented, shewing that here 
began a distinct book, which afterwards came to be bound 
up with the rest, but has no other connexion with it. A fac- 
simile of the beginning of this Sermon is given by MM. Cham- 
pollion and Silvestre, in the Paleographie Universelle. 
2. Some Letters (apparently of Pope Innocent III.), 
translated into Irish. 
3. A Dialogue between the Body and the Soul. This is 
the same tract of which another copy occurs also in this 
volume, in the portion of it written by Flathri for Donogh 
O Brien. This is probably the original, for a note at the 
beginning of it tells us that it was translated into Lrish by 
William Maguibhne [Mac Gawney], and that Daniel O’Con- 
nell induced him to do so in the year of our Lord 1443. The 
tract is imperfect, some leaves being lost between fol. 73 and 
fol. 74. 
V. Then follows another collection of Lives of Saints, con- 
taining three lives: this is the oldest portion of the MS. and 
is unfortunately imperfect at the beginning. It appears from 
the handwriting (for no other means remain of determining its 
age), to have been written in the 14th, or beginning of the 
15th century. It contains— 
1. A fragment of the Life of St. Patrick, imperfect at the 
beginning. 
2. The Life of St. Bridgit. 
3. The Life of St. Brendan, imperfect in the middle ; the 
defect is supplied, however, by a more recent hand: so that 
the tract is complete, although not in its original state. 
VI. Next follow two tracts, written, as appears from a 
note at the end, by Mailechlain, son of Ilan Mac an Legha, 
for Donogh, son of Brien Duff O'Brien, “the head of the 
