EsPOSiTO — Conchubrani Vita Sanctae jMonennae. 205 



This work appears to be based on the Vita of Conchiibian, from whicli, 

 however, it is said to dill'or in many points.' 



(3). Vita Sanctae Modweunae, an abridgment of Geoffrey's work made by 

 John of Tynemouth (fi. c. 1320). It is preserved in the Codex Cotton 

 Tiberius, E, i fols. 199 v°-204 v", saec. xiv, in the British Museum, from which 

 it has been printed by Karl Horstinann.- 



(4). Vita S. JModwennae, also an abridgment of Geoffrey's work. It is 

 found in a MS. in the British Museum, MS. Lansdowne 436, fols. 126 v°-131 v°, 

 saec. xiv. This abridgment is quite independent of John of Tynemouth, to 

 whom it was unknown.' It has not yet been printed. At the end occur the 

 six elegiacs printed as Appendix E in the present paper. 



(5). Vita Sanctae Modwennae, found in a Jis. in the Library of Lambeth 

 Palace, 99. 5. fol. 187.^ 



(6). La Vie de Sainte Modwenne, a remarkable Anglo-Norman poem in 

 about 10,000 lines, composed in the twelfth century. It is preserved in 

 a MS. in the Bodleian Library, Digby No. 34, fols. 1-80, of the beginning of 

 the thirteenth century.' It has not, I believe, been hitherto printed." 



in. 



As already remarked, Conchubran's Life of St. Monenna is preserved in 

 one ancient MS. only, the Codex Cotton Cleopatra, A. ii, in the British 

 Museimi. I give here a fuU description of this MS. 



It is a small quarto parchment volume, consisting of sixty numbered 

 folios measuring 17'5 cms. by 12"5 cms., the actual size of the text being 

 13"7 cms. by 8-7 cms. It is written in single colimins with twenty lines to 

 the page. Capital letters and the titles of chapters are illuminated. Tlie 

 writing is large and beautiful, the words being well separated, and there is 

 some attempt at punctuation. The letter "e" is always written for "ae" and 

 the letter "i," especially when doubled, is generally marked by an inclined 

 stroke above the line. Abbreviations and conti'actions are not uncommon." 



' Cf. Ilorstmann, Nova Legenda Anglic, ii, 1901, p. 19Sn. 



- Loc. cit., pp. 198-213. Two other Mss. of this abiiJgmont are in existence, O.xfoiil, Builleiun, 

 Tanner No. 15, fol. -423, written in 1199, and York, Cathedral Librarj-, xvi, c. 1, cf. Horstmann, 

 loc. cit., p. XV. 



'Cf. Horstmauu, loc. cit., p. ixn. 



'Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue, etc., i, pt. 1, p. 100. Anew and complete eatiJoguc of the 

 valuable collection of mss. at Lambeth Palace (about 1300 volumes) is much to be desired. 



^ Hardy, loc. cit., p. 99; Maoray, Catalog! Codicum Manuscriplorum fiibliothecao Bodleiaime, 

 Pars Nona, 1883, col. 30. 



'^Ci. H. Suchier, Ueber die Vio de Seint Alban, Halle, 1S77, p. U9, and Gaston Paris, Ui 

 Litteraturo Fran(;aise au Moyen Age, 1S88, p. 215. An edition from the O-xfoi-d sis., and also from 

 one in a private library, is in preparation by Professor A. T. Baker for the Literary Society of 

 Stuttgait. 



' The principal orthographic peculiarities of the ms. will be found noted in the Index Verborum 

 at the enii of this paper. 



