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MONDAY, JANUARY 14, 1861. _ 
Joun Francis Water, LL. D., in the Chair. 
Lord Viscount Monck, Henry Cusack, Esq., Richard H. Frith, Esq., 
C. E., Rawdon Macnamara, M. D., Alexander Mac Ilveen, Esq., James 
Moore, M. D., and Sir Thomas Wyse, K. C. B., were elected Members 
of the Academy. 
On the recommendation of the Council, it was 
Resotvep>—That the samples of wood from Canada, and the osteo- 
logical specimens now in-the Museum of the Academy, be deposited with 
the Royal Dublin Society, under similar regulations to those required 
by the Society in the deposit of their antiquities with the Academy. 
Dr. Wilde exhibited and described the gold lunette ornaments in 
the Museum of the Academy. 
W. H. Harpines, Esq., in the absence of the Rev. Dr. Reeves, read 
a communication from Charles Mac Donnell, Esq. 
ON A MANUSCRIPT OF THE TRACT INTITULED—‘“‘ Trprcus ac TROPOLOGICUS 
Jesu Curistrt GenEaLocim INTELLEcTUS euEM SAncrus AILERANUS 
Scorrorum SaPIENTISSIMUS EXPOSUIT,’ PRESERVED IN THE IMPERIAL 
Lrsrary AT VIENNA. 
In the Imperial Library, at Vienna,* there is a valuable vellum ma- 
nuscript, intitled ‘‘Sedulii Junioris Scoti Catena, sive Collectanea ex 
Patrum sententiis et dictis in Evangelium 8. Mathaei.”’ This once po- 
pular work on the Gospel of St. Matthew is by our fellow-countryman, 
Sedulius, that is, Scedhuzl, or Shiel. Denis, in his Catalogue,} says that 
this manuscript is as old as the tenth century. It now consists of 157 
folia, of large quarto form, written in a fair and uniform hand, in two 
columns, with red initial letters. 
It contains a complete copy of the Commentary of St. Aileran, a 
writer of the seventh century, on the Genealogy of our Lord, according 
to St. Matthew. In Fleming’s posthumously published “ Collectanea 
Sacra,’’} the tract was first printed, from a St. Gall MS., at Louvain, in 
1667; but, as he says in his preface, ‘‘ proh dolor! imperfectum.” It 
was copied thence into the “ Bibliotheca Patrum”’ of De la Bigne.§ 
The copy in this Vienna manuscript has thirty-six lines to the end, from 
the place where Fleming’s exemplar breaks off. 
There are very great variations between the text in Fleming and that 
in this manuscript; and it is evident, on a comparison of the two, that 
* Cod. Membr. Theol., cix. (nunc vi., c. i.). 
+ Cod. MSS. Theol. Bibl. Imp. Vindobon., yol. i., p. 294. 
{ Preface, p. 182; text, pp. 185-192. 
§ Max. Bibl. Patr., tom. xii., fol. 37, Lugduni, 1677. 
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