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TVith regard to the marginal and interlinear commentaries. 1 To verses 

 1, 9, 41, 49, 57, 65, 73, 81, 89, 97, 105, 113, are prefixed short argnments. 

 Owing to the loss of the beginning folios, the argument to verse 1 commences 

 abruptly thus : 



[f. la] . . . ut meritum diuini carminis honore tituli possit agnosei. Est 

 enim ebreis el i mentis ad rudes et doeibiles in seola Christi populos 

 instruendos tali ordine depictus ut ab unaquaque iittera octoni uersus 

 incipiant, etc. (ct Cassiodorus, In PsaL, P.L. 70, 835b, c). 



The argument to 41 runs thus : 



[f. 2 a] : Yau et ipse postulat eongregatio sancta salutarem sibi Dominum 

 debere concedi, ut inimicos de tanta remuneratione eonfundat et in lege 

 assidua meditatione proficiat ipse ergo dominus atque saluator {loc. cit., 849d). 



Between the lines are brief notes and in the top and side margins are 

 longer comments. 2 The following examples will suffice : 



[f. 2 a, on verse 37] : His : Ecce fecisti me concupiseere mandata tua et 

 non diuitias mundi. Et inequitani in amore Dei et proximi. Vel equitas tui 

 est confirmare me in mandatis tuis dum coneupiui ea. 



[f. 3a, on 57]: Portio a parte dicta est; illius enim partis sumus cuius 

 uoluntatibus obaudimus ; quod uerbum frequenter inuenis dictum, ut est illud : 

 Filiis Leui non erit portio, neque sors in medio fratrum eorum, quia Dominus 

 Deus est pars eorum uel portio (Joe. cit., 855a). 



ri, on 70] : Coagulatunv est sieud lac cor eorum; aguluni, coagulum 

 eompositum a con et agulum uel agelo cogilatum. 4 



My thanks are due to Mr. R. I. Best for assistance and advice during the 

 compilation of this paper. To the Rev. Eather T. A. O'Reilly, O.F.M., I am 

 much indebted for allowing me liberal access to the MSS. in the Library of 

 the Franciscan Monastery, Dublin. 



1 Tnese scholia are not original, but are extracted from the various patristic 

 commentaries. Thus the passage on f . la : losephus antem referf in libris apxatoXoyias 

 hunc pS'llmum et csJiiii. etc., does not prove that the writer had read Josephus. He has 

 merely copied it from the Pseudo-Hieronymian Breviarium in Psalmos (Migne, Pal 

 Lat., 26, col. 1137c) ; cf. DArbois (Revue Celtique, viL 1886.. £^96). 



2 To some of these comments are prefixed the letters H or his. 



3 Above this word is written obduratum. 



4 Lege a geln congtl" I 



