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the Irish Franciscan Convent of St. Isidore, in Rome. The 
precise date of the transfers I have not been able to ascertain; 
but I apprehend that much of what was deposited in the ar- 
chives of St. Isidore’s was scattered or destroyed during the 
French occupation of Rome under Napoleon I., when the 
convent was used as barracks. 
‘«* Beyond the fragment of the Index which I have copied, 
and subjoin, and a few detached leaves which I believe to 
have formed part of the work, I have been unable, by a care- 
ful search and inquiries, to find at St. Isidore’s any portion of 
that great monument of the learning and research not only of 
Colgan, but of the many who contributed towards its compi- 
lation: for Fleming, Ward, Rooth, the learned Jesuit, Stephen 
White, and others, had made previous and partial collections, 
of which Colgan had knowledge, and of which, undoubtedly, 
he availed himself largely. 
‘“¢ Nor does my recollection of a sojourn of several days 
among the Irish MSS. in the Burgundian Library supply any 
trace of anything there which could be part of the work itself; 
though I remember to have seen there, bound up with other 
documents, a few leaves of Collectanea, which in all probabi- 
lity formed part of Colgan’s materials for it.* 
* To this fragmentary and undigested Collectanea the following item in 
the catalogue prepared at St. Isidore’s, of the MSS. and books found in 
Colgan’s room, and which Sirin subsequently used, has probably reference: 
—‘< Libri undecim ex quibus 8 in 4°. cum uno longo libro, continentes collec- 
tanea ex diversis. Inter que Extracta ex Monasteriis Scotorum in Germania, 
partim impressa partim MSS?.” The work itself is mentioned lower down 
in the same catalogue thus:—‘‘ De mnriis Hibernorum inter exteras gentes, 
unum volumen.” ‘“‘ Synopsis de Apostolatu SS”. Hibernia, tria alia volu- 
mina.” And annexed to the item, in the same handwriting as the rest, is a 
marginal reference back to the above-mentioned “ collectanea ex diversis” for 
the index of the Synopsis. It is worthy of remark, that this old catalogue 
refers to four volumes; Harris only heard of three. Had one volume pe- 
rished already when he wrote, or had two of the yolumes been bound in one? 
At present one can only conjecture. 
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