76 Procreilivfii: of the Bni/ol rri.t/i AcatfcMii/. 



7. MS. No. 150. 



A quarto parchment MS., dating from the beginning of the ninth centurj- 

 (Scherrer, Verzeichniss, etc., p. 55). It contains, on pages 365-377, the 

 Poenitentiale of St Finnian of Moville (Esposito, Hermathena, xv, 1909," 

 p. 353, and Seebass, Zeitschrift fiir Kii-chengeschichte, xiv, 1894, p. 437). 

 The tract was printed from this and other MSS. by "Wasserschleben (Die 

 Bussordnungen der abendlandischen Kirche, Halle, 1851, pp. 10 and 108 sq.). 

 Pages 285-287 contain only the preface of the Poenitentiale of Cummean. 

 The penitential piece which follows on pages 287-318 is not the work of this 

 author (Wasserschleben, loc. cit., pp. 69, 70, 460 n., 505 sq.). 



8. MS. No. 550. 



An octavo parchment MS. written in the ninth century. It contains, on 

 pages 162-234, the Poenitentiale of Cummean (Scherrer, Verzeichniss, etc., 

 p. 169, and Esposito, Hermathena, xv, 1909, p. 358). This MS., and also the 

 one to be next mentioned, was employed by Wasserschleben (Die Bussord- 

 nungen, etc., pp. 12 and 460 sq.) for his edition. It is mentioned in the 

 catalogue of 1461, published by Weidmann (Geschichte, etc., p. 412) from 

 MS. No. 1399, 



9. MS. No. 675. 



A quarto parchment MS., dating from the beginning of the ninth century 

 (Scherrer, Verzeichniss, etc., p. 219). On pages 224-267 occurs the Poeni- 

 tentiale of Cummean. This ms. was employed by Wasserschleben (cf. the 

 precetling article). It is possibly referred to in the ninth-century catalogue, 

 printed by Weidmann (Geschichte, etc., p. 388) from MS. No. 728. 



10. MS. No. 915. 



A quarto parchment MS., written in the tenth or eleventh century, fully 

 described by Scherrer (Verzeichniss, etc., p. 336). Pages 1.54-167 contain 

 the Begula Monachorum of St. Columbanus, which was printed from this 

 and other MSS. by Seebass (Zeitschrift fiir Kirchengeschichte, xv, 1895, 

 p. 368). On pages 167-169 we have the Instructio Quinta, " tu vita " 

 attributed to St. Columbaniw (Ed. Migne, Patrol. Lat., 80, cols. 240-241); 

 and, lastly, on pages 170-184 occurs the Cegula Coenobialis of St. Colum- 

 banus, which was edited from this MS. by Seebass (Zeitschrift fiii- Kirchenge- 

 schichte, xvii, 1897, p. 216). 



11. MS. No. 1191. 

 A duodecimo paper MS. dating from the year 1596. It contains the 

 Regula (Coenobialis ?) of St. Columbanus (Scherrer, Verzeichniss, etc., 

 p. 422). 



