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no help to the interpretation, for the parts are thrown together without 
connexion, and order is sacrificed to rhyme. 
Asomewhat similar composition, commencing Galea salutis esto capiti, 
forms part of a very curious Hiberno-Latin poem preserved in the 
Leabhar Breacc,* which is enriched with interlinear glosses giving the 
Trish equivalents for all the Latin terms. The argument which is pre- 
fixed states that ‘‘ Gillus} hanc loricam fecit ad demones expellendos eos, 
qui adversaverunt illi;” and it adds, ‘‘ Laidcend mac Buithbannaig venit 
ab eo ininsolam Hiberniam, transtulit et portavit super altare sancti Pa- 
tricii salvos nos facere, amen.” This same hymn, without the glosses, has 
been published by Mone, in the first volume of his above-named work. 
He found it in a manuscript of the close of the eighth century preserved 
at Darmstadt§ ; and he states that another copy, written about the end 
of the fifteenth century, exists at Vienna.|| As printed by Mone, it con- 
tains ninety-two lines, is entitled Hymnum Lurice, and has the sub- 
scription Explicit Hymnus quem Lathacan Scotigena fecit; the Lathacan 
of the continental copy being evidently a variety of the domestic form 
Laidcenn. This ecclesiastic§ was a pupil of St. Lactan, at Clonfert-Molua, 
now Clonfertmulloe, or Kyle, in the Queen’s County, and died on the 
12th of January (at which day he is commemorated in the Irish Calen- 
dars), in the year 661.** From the designation Sapiens, which is applied 
to him by the Annals of Ulster, he seems to have been in repute for 
learning in his day; and it is an interesting fact that his name appears 
in another continental manuscript, namely, an abstract of the Moralia 
of St. Gregory, also preserved at Vienna, written by Ladkenus Hiberni- 
ensis. 
Lana in the library of St. Gall (No. 1395) has on the recto 
of one leaf a sacred effigy, and, on the back, four clauses, principally in 
ancient Irish, being charms or invocations for the relief of certain mala- 
dies. They were first printed by Keller,}} and afterwards, more accu- 
rately, by Zeuss.§§ The third, which was ap cherin galap, ‘‘for [ the re- 
lief of | headach,” runs thus, partly Latin and partly Irish :—‘Caput 
Christi oculus isaie, frons nassium noe labia lingua salomonis collum te- 
mathei mens beniamin pectus pauli unctus ichannis fides abrache sanctus 
sanctus sanctus dominus deus sabaoth—Cauip anipiu cachoia 1mou- 
* Library of Royal Irish Academy, fol. 111 a 6d. 
+ The ‘‘ Annals of Ulster” record the death of a Gildas at 569; but the present is a 
later writer. 
t “ Hymni Med. Aevi,” No. 270, vol. i., p. 367. 
§ No. 2106. 
|| Denis, ‘‘ Catal. Codd. Theol. Vindob.” 1., 3, p. 2932. 
_ 4 Colgan has a meagre notice of him at this day (Act. SS., p. 57), but without any 
mention of his writings. 
** A.D. 661. Larohgnen mac baith banoaich quieuit.— Tighernach, A. C. 660, 
Laiogsenn sapiens mac bad bannaigs defunctus est.—Ann. Ulst. So Ann. Inisfall. 
A. D. 651; Four Masters, A. D. 660. 
tt Denis, “ Catal. Bibl. Vindob.,” p. 2980, cit. Mone, vol. i., p. 369. 
{# ‘‘ Bilder und Schriftziige in den irischen manuscripten,” &c. p. 92 (Zurich, 1851). 
A tracing of them had previously been brought to Ireland by Samuel Ferguson, Esq. 
§§ “Gram. Celt.” vol. ii., p. 926. 
