Mspiisri'o — Hiherno-Latin MSS. in the Librariea of Srvitzerhuul . 7/) 



P. 4 ; Verba loliannis Scotti. Aristotiles, acntissimns apiirl Greeos, ut aiunt, 

 natui-alium leiuiu discietionis repcitor, oiuiiiiini reiuiii ijuao apud deuiu simt 

 et ab eo creata iiniumerabiles varietates in decern universalibus generibus 

 coiiclusit. Quae decern cathegorias id est predicamenta vocavit. Nihil enim, 

 ut ei visum, in multitudine creaturavum rerum variisque aninioruni moribus' 

 inveniri potest cpiod in aliquo praedictorum generuui induci non possit. 

 Haec enim a Grecis vocantur: [Oujia, IlodODj, noionj, Wpat^ n, KeiaOai, 

 ^XHv, ToTToc, Xjooi'oc, UpaOsii', nudnv.J Quae latialiter dicuntur : Essentia, 

 Quantitas, Qualitas, Ad Aliquid, Situs, Habitus, Locus, Tempus, Agere, Pati. 



P. 4-5 : Versus Alcuini Diaconi ad Karolum Eegem Francborum, 

 " Continet iste decern naturae verba libellus," etc., with a short preface and 

 interlinear and marginal notes. This poem, in ten lines, was printed by 

 Diimmler (Mon. Germ. Hist., Poetae Latini Aevi I\Iedii, i., 1881, p. 295), 

 from MSS. at Vienna and Munich. Diimmler does not mention this MS. 



P. 5-66 : Incipiunt Cathegoriae Aristotelis ab Augustino translatae ad 

 filium. Cum omnis scientia disciplinaque, etc., with interlinear notes, and 

 a copious marginal commentary. 



This work, incorrectly attributed to St. Augustine, will be found in Migne 

 (Patrol. Lat., 32, cols. 1419-1440). 



5. MS. No. 555. 



A small quarto parchment MS., consisting of eighty-three folios, written 

 in the early part of the ninth century (Scherrer, Verzeichniss, etc., p. 175)- 

 It contains only the shorter recension of Adamnan's Life of St. Columba, and 

 was collated for Eeeves's edition (Irish Archaeol. Soc, 1857, p. xxvii) by 

 Karl Greith. On page 166 is a picture of St. Columba, which is reproduced 

 in facsimile in Eeeves's edition (Plate V). This MS. is mentioned in the 

 ninth-century catalogue of the monastic library of St. Gallen (Weidmanu, 

 Geschichte, etc., p. 386). 



6. MS. No. 320. 



A small octavo parchment MS., written in the twelfth century, in single 

 columns with 34 lines to the coUuun. It is fully described by Scherrer 

 (Verzeichniss, etc., p. 113). It contains, on pages 254-284, Adamnan's 

 work De Locis Sanctis, without the plans, and was collated by Tobler and 

 Molinier for their edition (Itinera Hierosolymitana et Descriptiones Terrae 

 Sanctae, Geneva, 1879, i, p. xxxiii). Other MSS. of this tract occur at Ziirich 

 and Bern. They will be mentioned further on. 



' Covrectio supiii scripta : motibus. 



- Several of tlie Greek words in brackets have been inUleil by myself. In the ms. tbey are 

 written in refl ink, which has beuome so faded that I lonld only decipher a few letters in each word, 

 and Dr. A. Fiih, who has since very kindly re-examined the Ms. at my request, lias not been more 

 successful. 



