22 Proceedings of the Royal Trish Academy. 
VIII.—On a Fracwent oF AN ANTE-HIERONYMIAN VERSION OF THE 
Gospets, in the Library of Trinity College, Dublin. By J. K. 
Ineram, LL.D., Fellow and Librarian of Trinity College. 
[Read, January 26th, 1880.] 
In a Paper read before this Academy on the 25th of January, 1847, 
and afterwards published in the Proceedings (vol. iii. p. 374), the late 
Rey. J. H. Todd, D.D., gave an account of a fragment of an ancient 
purple vellum manuscript of the Gospels in Latin, which he had pur- 
chased in Dublin some years before. 
The fragment was a single leaf containing a portion of the 13th 
chapter of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. Dr. Todd laid be- 
fore the Academy a Table containing the text of the fragment, with 
those of the same passage in the Codex Vercellensis and the Codex 
Veronensis, as printed in Bianchini, and also the corresponding text 
of the Vulgate. It thus appeared that the fragment was part of an 
ante-Hieronymian version of the Gospels, differing in some of its read- 
ings from one or other, or from both, of the above-named codices. 
Dr. Todd was of opinion, from the forms of the letters and other indica- 
tions in the Manuscript, that it was written in the fourth, or the early 
part of the fifth century. 
In the Academy of the 1st of March, 1879, appeared a letter by 
Mr. T. Graves Law, stating that the fragment in question was a 
missing leaf of the Codex Palatinus, in the Imperial Library at Vienna, 
which was edited by Tischendorf in 1847. The writer added that, 
to the best of his knowledge, the leaf was no longer to be found, he 
having been unable to.obtain any information regarding it at the 
Library of Trinity College, Dublin, where, from Mr. Westwood’s ac- 
count of it, in his Paleographia Sacra Pictoria (1843-1845), it would 
seem to have been preserved. 
I do not remember to have read this letter in the Academy when 
it appeared, though it is possible I may have done so. But I was 
familiar with Dr. Todd’s Paper in our Proceedings, and had a lively 
recollection of his account of the leaf. Accordingly, I had not been 
long Librarian of Trinity College when I inquired about it, and 
learnt that Mr. Law was quite right in saying that it was not to be 
found. I was informed that, when a gentleman—presumably Mr. 
Law—had written respecting it in the time of the late Librarian, the 
answer had been returned that it was not forthcoming, and that it was 
not known what had become of it. On this, I represented to the 
Assistant Librarian, Mr. Thomas French, the importance of recovering 
it, if possible. Mr. French’s zeal and energy in matters of this kind 
are known to many members of the Academy. He instituted a careful 
search, and found the missing leaf in a part of the Library, where it 
would not naturally be looked for, and where it had probably been 
