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April 9th, 1850. 



The REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D. D., Pkesident, 

 in the Chair. 



Signior Bassilio Angeli, W. H. Hardinge, Esq., and 

 Robert Fowler, Esq., were elected Members of the Academy. 



Mr. J. Huband Smith exhibited to the Academy an ancient 

 manuscript, said to have belonged to the Abbey of Bona- 

 raargy, near Ballycastle, in the County of Antrim. It has 

 been for many years in the possession of the Boyd family. 



The manuscript is closely written, in a very beautiful 

 hand of the fourteenth or fifteenth century, on eighteen leaves 

 of vellum, or thirty-five pages (the thirty-sixth being blank), 

 in two columns on each page. The capital letters at the be- 

 ginning of each section are in gold, surrounded with flowers, 

 whose colours are nearly as bright as at the first. Some 

 prayers, hymns, &c., are written in red letters, and are after- 

 wards given in English. The whole is written uniformly 

 throughout in one hand, except the last four lines, which ap- 

 pear to have been subsequently added by two different per- 

 sons, by the latter of whom the manuscript is styled " The 

 History of the Blessed Scriptures," and the name " George 

 Theaker" is subscribed. 



At page 30, column 1, the following words are written in 

 red letters : " Explicit Liber Aureus de passione et resurrec- 

 cione Domini, per dominum Bonaventuram Cardinalem,cujus 

 animo propicietur Deus." From this it may be concluded that 

 the preceding part of the manuscript is from a tract of Bona- 

 venture's. The remainder of the manuscript is probably from 

 another tract of the same writer. He was born A. D. 1221, 

 became a Franciscan monk in 1243, was created Cardinal 

 Bishop of Alba in 1274, and died at Lyons during thesittini>- 

 of the Council, July 15th, A. D. 1274, aged 53. His works 



