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[%. @. the deluge] that came on it ; but it was only one pain that came on 
wt. The many pains of Christ were more intense .1. annis et dimedio, 
% and the pains and vengeance for them shall be more numerous and in- 
tense. us modo, i. e. ad tempus, quod modo.’ 
Of the subscriptions to the Gospels that after St. Mark 
___ has been given above. At the end of St. Matthew is the fol- 
lowing: 
i On vo Maelbmigce qui pembric hune lbpum. Ip mon in 
4 gmim Copmac mac Canchaig v0 manbad o Taipvelbach .h. 
— Bmam.—Fol. 60. 
‘A prayer for Maelbrigid qui scripsit hune librum. Tis a terrible 
deed, Cormac Mac Carthy to be killed by Turlogh O’Brien.’ 
The allusion is to an event which the Four Masters thus 
record at the year 1138: “Cormac, son of Muireadhach, son 
of Carthach, King of Desmond, and bishop of the kings of 
Treland for bestowal of jewels and wealth upon the clergy and 
the churches, an improver of territories and churches, was 
killed in his own house by treachery, by Toirdhealbhach son of 
Diarmaid Ua Briain, and by the two sons of O’Conor Kerry.” 
At the end of St. Luke, the scribe’s name appears again, 
but with a different chronological note : 
Op vo Maelbpigce qui pemibpic h. Lb. mm xx°umn? anno aetatip 
uae. In vana bliadain 1aippm s0(charg mop plin.—Fol. 127 b. 
‘ A prayer for Maelbrigid gui seripsit hunc librum in xxviii? anno 
_ @tatis sue ; The second year after the great storm was this.’* 
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* John Toland, whose real name was O'Toolan, was a native of Eskaheen 
_ in Inishowen, near Derry, where Irish was the language commonly spoken 
in his time. (See O’Donovan, An. Four Mast. 464.) He undertook to inter- 
pret this passage, and his autograph, which is pasted on p. 194 of Wanley’s 
" Catalogue, vol. v., contains this translation: ‘“Orate pro Brigidiano qui 
__ seribsit hunc librum in vicesimo octavo anno aetatis suae secundo anno ab 
_ aedificatione magne domus.” Mr. Westwood, who translates from Wanley’s 
ee. Catalogue instead of the original, places the occurrence ‘‘in the second year 
after the building of the great house.”! At least he should have followed 
Dr. O’Conor, who interprets the passage correctly. 
