478 
Cross,” in the forest of Soigny. There are no notes in the 
Irish character or language, nor do any figures of animals, 
which are so commonly found in Irish MSS., form any part 
of the illuminations. The MS. is in good preservation, and 
the text commences thus: ‘‘Joannes qui ex literali.” The name 
of the scribe has not been discovered in any part of the volume. 
Vol. I]. containing the Nos. 1160, 1161, 1162, and 1163, 
is a middle-sized folio also in the Latin language, bound in 
wood covered with calf-skin, and ornamented with brass clasps. 
This volume is entitled, in the classing of the old library, to 
which it belonged, as follows: ‘* Navigatio S. Brendani ad va- 
rias Insulas cum aliis.—Beth. Louv. 48 F.” At the com- 
mencement and also at the end of the MS. may be found the 
following note: ‘* Pertinet Mésterio Canénor. Reglarm. in 
Bethleem ppe. Lovanium.” The contents of the volume are 
given upon the first fly-leaf, and are as follows: 
1160. It navigatio 8. Brendani abbatis ad diversas insulas. 
1161. It visio Tungdoli militis valde admirabilis.* 
1162. It epistola Presbiteri Joannis imperatoris majoris. 
1163. It itinerarium Joannis de Mandeville militis. 
The initial letters of the four different pieces are about 
two inches in diameter, and ornamented in vermilion and pink 
colours, but not very neatly executed, and the same observation 
applies to the penmanship. ‘The first leaf of this MS. is vel- 
lum, then follow four of paper, and then two of vellum, and so 
on until the eightieth, which is of vellum also, and which is the 
Jast in the volume. Mandeville and Tungdolus are in the text 
styled ** milites.” The date, or the name of the scribe, could 
not be found in the MS.; but, by comparison with MSS. of 
a known date, it appears as old as the ‘ Inventaire” states, 
namely, the close of the fifteenth century.f No note in the 
* There are three copies of this tract in the Library of Trinity College, 
Dublin. They are marked as follows: C. 4. 23.; E. 1. 29.; and E. 4, 12. 
} Nos. 1161 and 1163 have short prologues; for other copies of these 
MSS, see Nos, 4531 et 7960. 
