78 Proceedinf/s of the Roiial Irish Acadcunj. 



In two other MS3. — Xo. 197, quarto, saec. x, pp. 281-289, and 198, 

 quarto, saec. x, pp. 141-149 — a long poem, " Haec praecepta legat," etc., is 

 attributed to St. Columbanus (Scherrer, Verzeichniss, etc., pp. 72, 74), but 

 Diimmler, who has edited it from these and other MSS., has proved that it is 

 the work of Alcuin (Mon. Germ. Hist., Poetae Latini AeW Medii, i, 188 1 , 

 pp. 164, 275). 



Tliree other St. Gallen mss. — No. 141, quarto, saec. x, pp. 45-52, No. 921, 

 a quarto paper MS. of saec. xv, and No. 927, a quarto paper MS. wiitten in 

 1435, pp. 486-492, are said to contain the Instructio Quintet of St. Columbanus, 

 " U vita quae tantos decepisti," etc. (Scherrer, Verzeicliniss, etc., pp. 53, 346, 

 348), but this is probably a confusion with St. Augustine's Sermo de corpore 

 et anima (cf. Seebass, Zeitschrift fiir Kirchengeschichte, xv, 1895, p. 368). 



17. MS. No. 250. 



A folio parchment MS., copied in the ninth century, fully described by 

 Scherrer (Verzeichniss, etc., p. 92). Pages 112-114 contain a work attributed 

 to St. Columljanus, " De Saitu Lunae," which was published from this MS. 

 by Pere Gabriel Meier (Jahresbericht uber die Lehr- uud Erziehungs- 

 Anstalt des Benediktiner-Stiftes Maria-Einsiedeln, 1886-87, p. 30; cf. also 

 p 9).' .St. (-'oliimbanus' authorship ha.i, however, been called in question 

 by Bruno Krusch (Mon. (Jerm. Hist., Script. Iter Meroving., t. iv, 1902, 

 p. 20n.). This MS. has also been used by Diimmler (Mon. Germ. Hist , 

 Poetae Latini Aevi Medii, ii, 1884, p. 568 ; cf. also Schenkl, Wiener Studien, i, 

 1879. p. 6.3n., Riese, Anthologia Latina, i, pt. 2, ed. 2, 1906, pp. 105, 154, 155, 

 161). This same work is also found attributed to St. Cohimbanus in two 

 other MSS., which were apparently quite unknown to Pere Meier — Ziirich 

 Kantonsbibliothek, C. 176, to be mentioned further on, and a MS. at Munich, 

 Tod. Lat. 14569, fol. 26-28, saec. xi. (Catalogus Codicum Latinoruni Biblio- 

 thecae Hegiae Monacensis, t. ii, pars 2, 1876, p. 194.) 



18. MS. No. 904. 



This is the famous MS. of Pri.scian (Scherrer, Verzeichniss, etc., p. 319), 

 so important for its Old-Irish glosses. It has been frequently studied 

 (cf. Stokes and Strachan, Thesaurus Palaeoliibemicus, ii, 1903, p. xix). 

 Traube (Abhl. der K. B. Akad. zu Miinchen, 1891, Bd. 19, Philos.-Philol. 

 Classe, Abih. 2, p. 373) has shown that it was written in the lii-st half of 

 the ninth centurj' by some of the friends of Sedulius Scottus. On fol. 40 1* 

 and V* are two poems which are said by Diimmler to be the work of Sedulius 



' \ Oi>p]r of thia Taluable paper va« ver; kindly given to me by Pdre Gabriel Meier at 

 Einaieiieln. 



