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III. 



HIBEENO-LATIX MAXUSCEIPTS IX THE LIBEAEIES OF 



SWITZEELAXD. 



By MAEIO ESPOSITO. 



Part I. 

 Basel, Einsiedeln, SchaflThausen, St. Gallen, aud Ziiiich (Kantonsbibliothek). 



Bead Jaxcaht 24. Ordered for Publication Jaxvaut 26. Published Hauch 14, 1910. 



Ix the coarse of a visit to Switzerland in the summer and autimin of 1909, 

 I had occasion to search the libraries of that country for mss. containing 

 metlijeval Hibemo- Latin literature — a subject on which I have been at work 

 for the past five years.' By " Hibemo-Latin literature " I designate those 

 works composed by Irishmen in the Latin language. In the present 

 paper only those mss. which contain writings by authors whose names are 

 known will be dealt with ; the anonjTnous works being reser\'ed for future 

 study. For the sake of completeness, brief mention will also be made of 

 those MSS. which have been already studied by other workers. 



The history of the civilizing work cametl out in Switzerland by wander- 

 ing Irishmen (" Scotti "'J from the seventh to the tenth centuries, has hitherto 

 not been much studied.' There is no doubt that they achieved much. The 

 founding of the celebrated monastery on the spot now known as St. Gallen 

 is alone sufficient to entitle them to the everlasting gratitude of the learned 

 world.* 



'Cf. Dablin Eeriew. October, 1305. pp. 327-337: Proc. R.I. Ai«d., 1907, xiri. section C, 

 pp. 378-446 : Hemutheoa, 1907. xir. pp. 519-5 >9 ; Iriab Tbeological Quarterly, April, 1909, 

 pp. 181-185 ; Hermatbena, 1909, xt, pp. 353-364 ; Zett»<hrift fur Celti»che Philologie, >-ii. Heft 2, 

 1910, pp. 475-483. 



' Till ibe eleTeotb or Ivrlftb centurr the term* Scotiiu, Scottia, Scotticns, etc., applied almost 

 ezdunrelT to Ireland. Cf. H<Jder, Alt-Celtischer SpraihichaU, Bd. ii, 1902, cola. 1406-1418. 



' Tbe most important work on this subject ia that «f F. Keller, Bilder und Schriftziige in den 

 irischen Manuwripten dcr Sch<reiizrris<.hen Bibliolfaeken (Mitthejlungen der Antiquarisciien Gesell- 

 achail in Zurnjh, Bd. Tii, ISol, pp. 59-97). 



* Cf. Zimnier, Pteussiacbe Jahrbiicher, 59, 1887, pp. 26-59 ; Schulize, CentxalbUtl fiir Biblio- 

 thrk>veMn. ri, 1889, pp. 185, 233, and 281 ; and Gougaud, R«Tue d'Hiatoire Ecclesiastique, 

 LouTain. ix, 190H, pp. n and iAb. 



