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to count six score to the hundred ; and it is curious that if we 

 count the volume so, the number of leaves it now contains 

 will be exactly seven score and one ; so that, on this supposi- 

 tion, the volume has remained uninjured for the last two hun- 

 dred years. 



III. The next part is a collection of the Lives of Saints, 

 not all in the same hand. The name of the scribe is not given, 

 but the great mass of this part of the manuscript appears to 

 be in the hand of William Mac an Legha. It contains the 

 following tracts : ' 



1. Life of St. Maighnen, Abbot and Founder of Kilmain- 

 ham, near Dublin. 



2. Life of St. Mochua, founder of the Church of Timohue, 

 in the Queen's County. 



3. Life of St. Senan, of Scattery Island, in the mouth of 

 the Shannon. 



4. Life of St. George. 



5. Life of St. Gregory the Great. 



6. Life of St. Longinus, who pierced our Saviour's side on 

 the Cross, and became blind in consequence, but was converted 

 to Christianity. 



7. Life of St. Juliana. 



8. Life of the four Donalds. A Legend, which begins by 

 telling us of three students who came from the diocese of Con- 

 nor to be educated by Maolsuthan O Carroll, of the Eogha- 

 nacht of Loch Lein, and abbot of Inisfallen in the Lake of 

 Killarney. This Maolsuthan, the story tells us, was spiritual 

 director to Brien, son of Kennedy, i. e. to Brien Boru. 



9. A Legend of Nicomedes, or Joseph of Arimathea. 



10. Life of St. Columba or Columbkille. Followed by 

 the curious legend of the saint, whilst he resided in the 

 island of Aran in the bay of Galway : a tract of which we 

 know no other copy. 



11. The Legend of the Seven Sleepers. This tract ends 

 imperfect, some leaves being lost, between fol. 57 and 58 of 

 the manuscript. 



