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‘A prayer for Maelbrigid O’Maeluanaigh qui seripsit hune librum, 
i.e, at Armagh. And in the time of Donough O’Carroll, chief king 
of Oriel, it was written, i. e. the year in which the 16th was on the 
Calends of January, i. e. the year in which Cormac Mac Carty, King- 
bishop of Munster and of Ireland generally in his time, was killed. 
‘ These also are the kings of Erin at this time, namely, Murcher- 
tach son of Niall O’Lochlain, at Ailech; Cooley son of Connor, King 
of Uladh; Murchadh OMelaghlin, King of Meath; Dermod Mac Mur- 
‘rough, King of Leinster; Connor O’Brien, King of Munster; Tur- 
logh O’Connor, King of Connacht. 
‘ Gilla-mac-liag, the son of the son of Roory (i. e. the son of the 
poet of the Ui-Birinn), in the successorship of Patrick. 
* A blessing on every one who will pardon the faults of this book, 
let him say a pater for the soul of the scribe; for it much requires 
indulgence both in text and commentaries.’ 
Dr. O’Conor has entered into a full examination of this 
record, and has shown, by a comparison of its details with no- 
tices in the Irish annals, what harmony exists between these 
independent records, adding, as well he might: “* A sxculo 
inauditum esse existimo, in rebus presertim Septentrionalibus, 
veritatem facti cujuscumque antiqui tanta rerum in uno anno 
concordantium varietate, totque personarum, locorum, et cir- 
- cumstantiarum adjunctis, que alibi quam in nostris Annalibus 
inveniri nequeunt, possit tam dilucide et inconcusse demon- 
strari.” 
Of the subsequent history of this manuscript nothing is 
_ known till the commencement of the last century, at which 
q period it was shown as a Saxon manuscript in the Royal Li- 
_ brary at Paris. This we gather from the following statement 
_ of Pere Simon: ‘On trouve dans la Bibliotheque du Roi un 
beau Manuscrit Latin des quatre Evangiles écrit il y a pour le 
_ moins 800 ans en vieux caracteres Saxons. Le Copiste qui 
_ étoit un Moine Benedictin prend le nom de Dom ZElbrigte, & 
F il ajotte a la fin de son Exemplaire plusieurs lignes en langage 
Saxon. Outre le texte des Evangiles, cet exemplaire contient 
