70 Proceedings of the Rot/al Irish Academy. 



Keller, Mittheilungen der Antiquarischen Gesellschaft in Zurich, vii, 1851, 

 p. 86, Taf. xiL 5 ; Todd, Book of Hymus, etc., i, 1855, p. 55 ; Baumeister, 

 Denkmaler des Klassischen Altertums, ii, 1887, pp. 1132, 1133;. 



Another Basel MS., F. iii. 15, of the ninth century, is said, by Halm 

 (Sitzungsberichte der K. Akademie in Wien, Phil.-Hist. Classe, 50, 1865, 

 p. 13-t) to contain on fol. 50 a poem of Columhanus entitled, " Praecepta 

 Virendi " ; but Dummler, who has edited the poem from this and other 

 Mss., has shown that its real author is Alcuin (Mon. Germ.' Hist. Poetae 

 Latini Aevi Medii, i, 1881, pp. 164, 275). 



Einsiedeln, Stiftsbibliothek. 

 An e.xcellent catalogue of the siss.' preserved in the Library of the 

 Benedictine Monaster}- at Einsiedeln is in coiu-se of publication by the 

 Librarian, Pere Gabriel Meier, O.S.B. The first volume, describing thf 

 500 most ancient andimjKirtant MS.s., api)eareil in 1899.' 



1. MS. No. 132. 



A tenth-centurj- parchment MS., fully described by Meier (Catalogus, etc., 

 p. 109).' It contains the group of tracts by Sedulius Scottus, found in the 

 Basel MS., F. v. 33, fully described above.* The tracts of Sedulius occupy 

 pages 2 to 112. From a brief examination of this ms. I was enabled to 

 ascertain that the text agrees well with that of the Basel MS. 



2. MS. No. 103. 



A sixteenth-century paper MS, described by Meier (Catalogus, etc., p. 86). 

 FoL 184V-188 \-: S. Columbani Instructio V. 



Ed. Migne (Patrol. Lat, 80, cols. 240-241). 

 Fol. 214 r'-223 r* : S. Columbani Regula Coenobialis. 



Ed. Migne (Patrol. Lat., 80, cols. 216-222). 



3. MS. No. 257. 



A tenth-century parchment MS., fully described by Meier (Catalogus, etc., 

 p. 229,. 



P. 294-296 : The poem in honour of St. Columhanus, Clare sacerdos, clues 

 almo fultus decore, tuis, Columbane, etc., published by Mone (Lateinische 



' The libnrj cootaini in all about 1500 mw. 



' Catalogus Codicum Mana Scriptorum qui in Bibliotfaeca Monuterii Einaidlensit .^errantur. 

 Tomiu I, Lipoae, IS99. A coj-y uf (hi* ralual>le •ori: vaa kindlj presenU-d to me at Einsiedeln 

 by the author. 



> Cf. alio Morel, SiUang>be>ichte der K. Akademie in Wien. Philof.-Histor. Claue, Band 53, 

 1867, p. 259. 



♦ Tt .ufcia, p. 63. 



