206 Proceedings of the Royal Irish AcaJemy. 



Hardy' has assigned this MS. to the eleventh eentiuy ; but iu my opinion it is 

 not earlier than the first half of the twelfth. Formerly the lis. belonged to 

 Eobert Cotton, whose name is inscribed at the foot of fol. 1 r°. At the 

 beginning of the volume are bound iu two inverted leaves, apparently part 

 of an old binding. They are written in a late and very small hand, and 

 contain legal matter. At the foot of the second is the foUowijig note : — Ex 

 coniuuctione dompni Wyllielmy Eclys, Monasterii beati Marie sancteque 

 Moducnne Virginuni de Burton super Trent monaclii, dum esset studens 

 Uxonie Anno Domini 1517. Tliis entry is conjectiu'ed to refer to the binding 

 of the MS.' On the blank fly-leaf preceding fol. 1 is the false attribution in a 

 late hand : Vita See Modwene virgiuis Hibernie per Galfriduni Burtonensem 

 Monachuin. Folio.s 1 r° to 59 r" are written in tlic same liand of the first 

 half of the twelftli centiu-y. Folios 59 v^ and GO r° are in hanils of the 

 thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. 



Tlio contents of tlie MS. are : 



Fol. ] r^-S v" : An alphaltetical hymn in 192 lines in lionour of 

 St. Monenna, which has not yet Ijeen printed. I give it as Appendix A to 

 the present paper. At the top of fol. 1 r" a modern hand has written 

 the incorrect attribution : Vita Scae Modwennae virginis Hiberniae per 

 Galfriduni Burt^-inenscni Monachuin \x\. 121G(?). 



Fol. 3 v^-5G v^ : Couchubran's Life of St. Monenna as printed below. 1 

 liave endeavoured to reproduce tlie arrangement and orthography of the ms. 

 as closely as possible, and have not recorded the many variations from the 

 t«^xt as given by the BoUandists, since their edition represents no separate 

 manuscript authority. 



Fol. 56 v'-SS r^ : Another alphal)etical hymn in honour of St. Monenna, 

 iu 92 lines, not hitherto printed. It forms Appendix B to the present paper. 



Fol. 58 v'-59r° : A very brief account of .St. Monenna, followeil by a li.st 

 of her successors. I give it as ApiK-ndix C. 



FoL 59v'-60r': A short account of the Ixjd of St. Monenna in a 

 mona4t«ry which she founded in Ireland. Like the preceding tract, it is in 

 pro.se, and ha.s not yet Ik-i-u printciL It i.s wrillon in a ciMut haml of llie 

 thirtocntli century. It will lie found in Api>endix D 



Fol. 60 r°: Six elegiac verses in the same thirteenth-century hand. 

 They occur also in MS. Lan-sdowue, 436, already mentioned.' I give tliem as 

 Appendix E. 



* Loc. oil., p. 94. 



*Cf. Har<ly, Dcscripli»c CaUluguc, etc., i, pt. 1. 18G2. \i. »6 n. On William Edys, the Imi 

 abbot of Burton -»n-Trent, sec Dugtlalc, Monosticon Aiiglicanuin, n. e<l., vol. iii, I Hi I, p. 'Ah. 



* These linca hare bceo already printed, cf. Acta Sanctorum, Julii, tomus ii, p. 312 ; Hardy, loc. 

 cit. supm, pp. 95, 100 : O'Hanlon, Lives of the Irish Saint«, vii, p. 63. 



