The Rev. J. H. Todd on an Ancient Irish Missal. 13 



These plates contaiu inscriptions in double columns, which I must now proceed 

 to describe. 



The inscriptions on the upper and lower plates are both mutilated, the last 

 half of both having been torn away. These inscriptions are in double lines. 

 What remains of the first is as follows: 



which is evidently- 



" A Prater Fon Philip 

 FOR THE King of Osmond" 



And the inscription may be thus with great probability restored:— 



' A Prater fob Philip 

 foe the King of Ob 



O'Kennedt, 



MOND, BT WHOM WAS c" 



This inscription is continued down the right side of the square thus: 



The first word ought evidently to be cumDaigeD, covered ; the initial c was 

 probably given in the preceding plate, as I have represented it in my proposed 

 restoration of the first inscription. The whole may be translated thus: — 



" [C]0VEEED THIS ORNAMENT, AND FOR AiNI HIS 

 WIFE, 1^ DOMHNALL O'TOLARI DECORATED ME." 



Dr. O'CoNOR has entirely failed to interpret these inscriptions. The first 



