82 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



Ordinis S. Benedicti, torn, i, 1754, p. 569; Neugart, Episcopatus Constanti- 

 ensis Alemanicus, t. i, pars i, 1862, 'p. 547; Becker, Catalog! Bibliothecaram 

 Antiqui, Bonn, 1885, pp. 19-24). The Ziirich MS. is, no doubt, identical 

 with the one thus described : " In trigesimo libello habentur libri ties, quos 

 Arculphus Episcopus Adamanno excipiente de locis Sanctis ultramarinis 

 designavjt conscribendus, et quartus liber de eadem notatione est adiunctus. 

 Quis auteni fuerit, ignoramus; quern mihi Walafrid Frater me supplicanto 

 donavit." The pereonage here referred to is the well-known Walahfridus 

 Strabus, Abbot of Reichenau from 842 to 849, and the " quartus liber de 

 eadem notatione " is the so-called Itinerarium Antonini Placentini still 

 found in the Ms., as mentioned below. 



Fol. 1 V : Blank. 



Fol. 2^-281": Primus de locis Sanctis liber. E.xorditur praefatio. 

 Arculfus sanctus episcopus gente Gallus, etc., Explicit liber tertius. 



This is the work of Adamiiau found in a considerable number of Mss. 

 Ed. Geyer (Itinera Hierosolymitana, 1898, pp. 219-207). 



Fol. 28 r-29 \- ; Incipit de virginitate Sanctae Mariae : 

 Virginitas felix quae partu est digna Tonautis, 

 Quae meruit dominum progenerare suum, etc., 



Intrant sidereo vernentes lomine portas 

 Excipit bos proceres urbs patefacta poli. 



Haec de versibus ixcr Furtunati librorum xi ad Gregorium positis ad 

 sanctonim mentionem sumpsimus. 



These 86 el^ac verses are taken from a poem of Venantius Fortunatus 

 (Liber viii, 3, 93-178, ed. Leo, Mon. Germ. Hist., Auctores Antiquissimi 

 torn, iv, pars, i, 1881, p. 183). There ia no mention of this MS. in Leo's 

 edition. 



Fol. 30 v*-43 V : In another hand, also of the ninth century : Incipit 

 libellus de locis Sanctis extra marinis quae infra vel circa Hierusalem sunt, 

 praecedente beato Antonino martyre. Ex eo quod a civitate Placentina 

 ^ressus sum, etc, Explicit deo adiuvante. 



This is the original recension of the Itinerary falsely ascribed to 

 Antoninus Placentinus. It has been printed from this and other mss. by 

 Geyer (Itinera Hierosolymitana, 189«, pp. 159-191). 



Fol. 44 r°-51 %•• : In a hand of the end of the ninth or earlier portion of 



the tenth century: Militum eius unum solummodo lapidem, etc., 



vel obsessionem et niinam suis adferunt. 



The rest is lost. This is a fragment of Bede's work, " Quaestiones in 

 libros Regum " (Bedae Opera Omnia, Coloniae, 1688, torn, iii, pp. 341-.*?46). 



