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Thus it appears that the only two variations are, that the life of St. 

 Antony is ISTo. 1 in our manuscript, whereas it is now Ko. 17 in 

 the other, and that the Life of St. Lewis exists in the latter, though 

 omitted hy the former. But with the exception of a few differences 

 in orthography, the remaining matter is identical in both. This 

 introduction of the St. Lewis, of the order of St. Francis, Bishop of 

 Toulouse, in addition to that of St. Antony, is strong evidence that 

 this manuscript, as well as the other, was compiled for the use of a 

 Minorite house, and the strong probability is that both were copied 

 from a common original, also belonging to a house of the same order. 

 The Codex Eolkenniensis of Colgan likewise belonged to a Fran- 

 ciscan house, and it evidently was very much akin to our manuscript, 

 indicating three emanations from one library. In this they differ 

 widely from the other three great repertories of Irish hagiology, the 

 Codex Salmanticensis of Brussels,* and the two Oxford volumes, 

 which went to England in the Clarendon collection, and being subse- 

 quently purchased at public sale, were bequeathed by the buyer, 

 under whose name they are now classed Raiclinson, B. 485 and 505, 

 in the Bodleian Library. f 



* For a list of the contents of this MS., which once belonged to the Irish College 

 at Salamanca, see our Proceedings, vol. iii. p. 498. 



t For a list of the contents of these two MSS., see Mac-ray's Catalogi Codd. 

 MSS. JBibl. Bodleiance, pt. y. fascic. 1, cols. 702 and 723. 



