Dery i oe 
4l 
is equivalent to tripartitus, trisected, and its use as a sub- 
stantive is rare. 
The mention of Maelbrigid Mac Dornan, in connexion 
with the present volume, might be relied upon as sufficient 
evidence of its Irish origin; but there is proof of this fact 
still more conclusive. In the lower margin of the page, 
which contains the account of our Lord being compelled to 
bear his cross, (from ver. 24 to 32 inclusive, of the 27th chap- 
ter of St. Matthew,) there is the following note in the Irish 
language, and in the hand-writing of the original scribe: 
mont ayyrapya f coymaja 
njyme j calman 
The second word is probably a contraction for aryanan ya, 
or as it would now be spelt, eayonojpn ya; the whole there- 
fore, in modern orthography and without contractions, is to 
be read as follows: 
Mon eayonojp ya for coymdja nJme azuyr calman. 
Great dishonour this to the God of heaven and earth, 
The discovery of this MS., and the satisfactory proof 
which these facts afford of its Irish origin, are important, as 
adding another to the many instances with which we are al- 
ready acquainted, of the employment of Irish scribes in the 
transcription of the Scriptures during the sixth and seventh 
centuries. Itis now well ascertained that almost all the sacred 
books so highly venerated by the Anglo-Saxon Church, and 
left by her early bishops as heirlooms to their respective 
sees, were obtained from Ireland, or written by Irish scribes, 
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