166 
1. A list of the Saints of Ireland, according to their eccle- 
siastical dignity ; of whom the author enumerates 345 bishops, 
299 priests and abbots, and 78 deacons. 
2. A list of Saints who had the same name; which is di- 
vided into two books, one containing the homonomous male 
Saints, the other female Saints. 
3. A list of the Saints according to their parentage; that 
is to say, Saints who were the sons of the same father ; Saints 
who were the only sons of their fathers; and female Saints, 
classified in the same way. 
4. A book on the mothers of the Saints, in which the ma- 
ternal genealogy of about 210 Saints, male and female, is pre- 
served. 
5. The Book of Litanies, addressed to the Saints. 
Colgan gives to these five tracts the collective title of 
Psaltar na Rann, on the authority ofan ancient MS., in which 
a copy of the treatise on homonymous Saints is thus entitled : 
Homonymi Hibernie Sancti, ex Saltuir na rann, quod compo- 
suit Aingussius Keledeus. 
But the work called Psaltar na Rann, preserved in the 
Bodleian Library, is ofa totally different character; it is in 
fact an abridgment of the history of the Old Testament in 
Irish verse, consisting of a number of ranns or short poems, 
each poem relating to some remarkable event or period of 
sacred history. It is well described by Colgan in the follow- 
ing words (Acta SS. p. 582): ‘ Prater jam memorata scrip- 
sit hic vir devotissimus metrico et eleganti stylo hystoriam 
Veteris Testamenti: quam omnia Dei opera in Creatoris laudem 
finaliter referendo, mentemque legentis et recitantis in ejus 
laudem, et amorem incendendo, ita in formam orationis effor- 
mavyit, et in partes distribuit, ut aptissime in utroque sensu 
Saltuir na rann, i.e., Psalterium metricum, vel Psalterium mul- 
tipartitum, vocari posset ; uti et de facto in alterutro vel utro- 
que sensu nuncupari et intitulari consuevit.” It does not 
appear that Colgan had ever seen this work, and as many 
