499 



Upon the back of this table of contents is a portion of a 

 letter in Latin, without any signature, referring the reader of 

 it to Colgan and Speed for information as to the places men- 

 tioned in the book. The heading of the chapters is not in 

 the same handwriting as the body of the work, but in the 

 smaller hand which will be seen in the last couple of lines of 

 the^c simile. The book itself is about the size of the Book 

 of Ballymote, and has been cut down too closely in the binding, 

 which is also of vellum. A map of Ireland, without any name, 

 I think that of Speed, is laid into the volume, and I suppose 

 was made by the individual who wrote the index, the paper 

 of both being the same. 



Vol. XXIII. (7806). The last piece in this volume is a 

 copy of the " Purgatory of St. Patrick," commencing thus : 

 ♦' Patri suo peroptato in Christo." The volume itself is a large 

 vellum folio, bound in wood, and attributed to the pen of ' 

 " Henricus Saltereyensis," and said to be written at the com- 

 mencement of the fourteenth century. It has no illumina- 

 tions, nor could I find any trace of the Irish character or 

 language. 



Vol. XXIV. In this volume will be found No. 7960, 

 which is another copy of the " Visio cujusdam militis Hibrnen- 

 sis ad edificationg multor conscripta." It commences thus : 

 " Incipit plogus Marci ad abbatissam quandam ;" and after this 

 prologue, commences, "Ibernia igitur Insula." The volume 

 itself is a very ancient vellum folio MS., in double columns, 

 attributed, and I believe justly, to the fourteenth century. 

 The vision occupies twenty folios, written upon both sides. 

 Upon the first folio of the volume may be found the following 

 note about this piece : 



" Visio Tungdali militis Hiberni, an. 1148, auctore 

 Marco in qua mentio fit SS, Patricii apli Hiberni 

 Malachiae ep. Dun. Ruadani Nennige ep. Cluan 

 Ccelestini ep. Armach. Chaini ep. Lundinen." 



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