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4. A Dialogue between the Body and the Soul. It is at 

 the end of this that Flathri gives us the information above 

 stated, from which we learn that he was the writer of the vo- 

 lume. And the following tracts seem to be also in his hand : 



5. A Legend of the Virgin Mary. This is imperfect, 

 some leaves being lost between what are now fols. 14 and 15 

 of the MS. 



6. A Tract entitled t)o peip ppocepcpa, "Of the Rule of 

 Preaching." 



7. A curious Tract on the institution hi the Festival of 

 All Saint's Day. 



8. On the Miracles attending the birth of our Saviour. 



9. A Sermon on the Text, " Intrate per angustam por- 

 tam." 



10. The history of the Right of spiritual Direction of the 

 Men of Ireland. 



Jl. On the Virtues of Faith, Chastity, Humility, Charity, 

 Fortitude, and Temperance. 



At the end of this are notes in Irish, in different hands, 

 giving two different calculations of the number of leaves in 

 the volume. One of these states that it contains six score 

 (which is corrected by another hand to seven score) leaves 

 and one. But a later entry makes the number seven score, 

 and a still later note adds, " and three leaves over." 



We gain but little information from this note : because it 

 must always be uncertain whether it refers to the whole 

 volume, or only to that part of it which was written by Flathri 

 for Donogh OBrien. If it refers to the whole volume, the 

 loss sustained since the seventeenth century, when the note 

 appears to have been written, will amount to twenty-three 

 leaves. If only to the book of Flathri, the loss will be 130 

 leaves. Let us hope, therefore, that the note related to the 

 entire volume, which is, perhaps, the more probable supposi- 

 tion. There is also another uncertainty attaching itself to 

 the Irish mode of counting by scores, for it was very common 



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