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of the tract so often referred to, but so little known, called 
Psaltar na Rann, or “The Psalter of the Poems,” or, as 
Colgan thinks, ‘ Psalter of’ the Divisions,” i.e. “ Psalterium 
multipartitum.”—Acta SS. p. 582. It is entitled, in the ori- 
ginal handwriting of the MS., 
“Dpalcap na pann mpo pip, 00 EN! Oengup celi ve.” 
«The Psalter of the Poems begins here, which was made 
by Oengus Cele De,” or Oengus the Culdee. 
This establishes the authorship, of this work beyond any 
reasonable doubt, for this MS. is certainly not later than the 
twelfth century, and Oengus flourished in the ninth. He was 
for some time a monk of the celebrated Abbey of Tamhlacht, 
or Tallaght, near Dublin, and was surnamed Cele De (or ser- 
yant of God) from his great devotion and sanctity. Some 
suppose that he had this title from his having been one of 
the founders and early members of the order of ecclesias- 
tics called Cele De or Culdees, of whom so much has been 
written. 
Oengus was the author of many other works, particularly 
of the Martyrologies which bear his name, and other tracts 
relating to the history of the saints of Ireland, all of which 
are still extant, but, to the disgrace of this country, extant 
only in MSS., which, in another generation, will probably 
become illegible, or at least the ample means we now possess 
for illustrating and translating them will be seriously dimi- 
nished, if not wholly lost. 
Colgan thinks that Aengus was the author of two works, 
both of which, although very different in their subject, bore, 
nevertheless, the same name of Psaltar na Rann. 
One of these he supposes to have had its name in the 
sense of Psalterium multipartitum, or the Manifold Psalter, 
from the fact that it consisted of the five following works, 
all of which are still extant in the Library of the Royal Inish 
Academy. 
