Mureuy—An Ancient US. History of Holy Cross Abbey. 409 
LY.—An Account or an Ancrent Manovscrret History or Hoty 
Cross Assrey, Co. TIPPERARY, CALLED TRIUMPHALIA CHRONOLOGICA 
Monasterit Sanct= Crucis. By the Rev. Deyis Mourpny, 8. J. 
[Read, June 22, 1885. ] 
I pec leave to submit to the Academy for inspection this evening a 
manuscript which has been lent tome. It contains two distinct works: 
the first has the title of Zriwmphalia Chronologica Cenobit Sancte Crucis, 
Triumphal Records of the Monastery of Holy Cross. Bound up with 
this is another work, Synopsis Nonnullorum Illustrium Cistercienstum 
Hibernorum, a Catalogue of some famous Irishmen of the Order of 
Citeaux. The date on the title-page of the first is 1640; on that of 
the second, 1649. The whole makes’ up a small folio, measuring 12 
inches by 8, containing 50 leaves of vellum. Of these, the first contains 
38—4 of them blank; the last 12. The upper part of the first leaf 
is torn away, one half of another has dropped off piecemeal, as it would 
seem, and the edges of the whole are considerably frayed, more by 
damp than honest wear. The writing throughout is by the same 
hand, with the exception of a few lines recording the death of three 
Abbots who died after the above-mentioned dates. Both works are 
in Latin not of the purest indeed, yet such as shows that their author 
was acquainted not only with the works of the Latin Fathers but 
also with some of the ancient classics. The last chapter of the Synopsis 
contains a brief autobiography of the author. The title-page says he 
was a native of Waterford. At an early age he left this country and 
went to the Irish College at Lisbon. Having completed the study of 
humanities there, he sought admission into the Order of Citeaux. He 
received the religious habit in the Abbey of Palacuel in Spain. After 
passing some years in the study of divinity, he returned to Ireland to 
labour in the Mission there. He wrote some other works, biographies 
of members of his Order. The author of the Bibliotheca Scriptorum 
Ordinis Cisterciensis does not give the year of his death. 
This manuscript was formerly the property and in possession of the 
monastery the history of which it relates. Harris, the editor of Sir 
James Ware’s works, had it for a time, for he says in chapter xiv. of 
The Writers of Lreland, after giving the titles of the two works as 
above: ‘‘These two tracts were in the custody of the officiating Romish 
priest of the parish of Holy Cross, who did me the favour to lend them 
to me in the year 1733.” He thinks they were intended for publica- 
tion; but I should say they were meant rather as domestic records for 
future generations of the monks, that they might know the history of 
their house, and imitate the virtues of those who went before them, 
R.I. A. PROC., SER. II., VOL. Il. —POL. LIT. AND ANTIQ. 2U 
