PROCEEDINGS 



TEE ROYAL IRISH ACADEMY. 



1846. No. 53. 



April 27. 



REV. HUMPHREY LLOYD, D.D., President, in the 

 Chair. 



Dr. Todd gave an account of an Irish Manuscript pre- 

 served in the Royal Library, Paris. Ancien Fond. No. 8175. 



After refuting the conjecture of M. ChampoUion Figeac, 

 that this is the identical volume which was sent from Bre- 

 tagne by M. de Robien to Paris, for the use of the Benedic- 

 tine authors of the Nouveau Traite de Diplomatique, Dr. 

 Todd proceeded to give an account of the contents of the ma- 

 nuscript. 



It is a parchment volume, containing now 117 leaves small 

 folio, or what modern booksellers would perhaps call imperial 

 octavo size. It was found by the Revolutionary Commis- 

 sioners, during the French Republic, in some house in Paris, 

 and by them deposited in the National Library, as is attested 

 by a curious note inserted in the volume, in the handwriting 

 of M. Villebrune, then Librarian or Conservator of that Insti- 

 tution. Of its previous history nothing is known, except what 

 may be gathered from a few entries made by the original scribes 

 and some of its possessors. 



The volume may be divided into seven portions, which 

 are, in fact, different works, having been written by different 

 scribes, and at different times, although now bound together. 

 These are : 



VOL. III. T 



