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dividual here referred to, and so obtain grounds for determin- 

 ing the date of the manuscript a priori. On the other hand, 

 if we are permitted to assume that it was written A. D. 807, 

 good reasons for this conclusion having been already shewn, 

 we are enabled to account in a satisfactory manner for the 

 appearance of the name in question. 



In the twenty-fourth chapter of Sir James Ware's Anti- 

 quitates HiberniccB, where he gives an account of the acts of 

 the Ostmen in Ireland, we find the following passage : 



" Anno 807, Dani et Norwegi in Hiberniam appulerunt, 

 et Roscomaniam, regionemque adjacentem ferro flammaque 

 vastarunt. Eodem tempore Cellacus Abbas csenobii S. Co- 

 lumbse Huensis, multis e suis, Norwegorum crudelitate, inter- 

 fectis, in Hiberniam profugit, et Kenanusse, alias Kenlisse in 

 Midia, monasterium inhonorem S. Columbse sive condidit, sive 

 restauravit. Cum vero annos circiter septem ibi prsefuisset 

 Abbas, Dermitio quodam in dicto csenobio Abbate relicto, in 

 lonam sive insulam Huensem reversus est, ubi, post annum 

 unum vel alterum mortem obiit." 



Ware does not indicate the sources from whence he has 

 derived this account. It is confirmed, however, as regards 

 the date and the history of Cellach, by the Manuscript An- 

 nals in the Library of Trinity College, H.1,7, commonly called 

 the Annals of Innisfallen; and mention is made in the Annals 

 of Ulster, ad. ann. 806 (A. D. 807), of the building of the 

 monastery at Kells. 



To the history of this Abbot of lona it is by no means 

 improbable that allusion may have been intended by the scribe 

 who wrote the name of Cellach in the margin : and perhaps he 

 may have thought that our Lord's descriptive prediction of 

 the miseries attending the destruction of Jerusalem (Mark xiii. 

 14-23) was not inapplicable to the sad visitation which had re- 

 cently fallen upon lona. 



With respect to the practice of writing Latin in Greek 

 characters, of which so many instances occur in the Book of 



