200 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Acuilemy. 



"Were it intended to circulate the work as a genuine production of the 

 great African doctor, the attempt was perfectly successful, for, as already 

 remarked, we find the " De Mirabilibus " quoted barely sixty years after its 

 composition under the title of " Compotus Sancti Augustini." The 

 anonymous writer who thus quotes it was an Irishman, who drew up in the 

 year 718 a " Computus," which is preserved in a single ninth-century >is. at 

 Munich, Cod. lat. 14456, fols. 8a-46a, and has never been printed.^ The 

 quotation occurs on fol. 46a, lines 14-19: 



" De Mirabilibus," ii, 4, Ed. col. 2176. Munich " Computus." 



Post quem undecimus ... ad nostra Ciclus xi. Undecimns, in tempori- 



Qsqne tempora decurrens, estremo bus nostris currens, Hibernensium 



anno Hiberniensium moriente Mani- doctore Manchiano moriente, pera- 



chaeo inter caeteros sapientes, pera- gitur. De Ciclo sii. Duodecimus sua 



gitur. Ct duodecimus nunc tertium tempora nunc agens, a nobis qualem 



annum agens ad futarorum scientiam finem habuerit, ignoratur. 

 se praestans, a nobis qualem finem 

 sit habiturus ignoratur. 



Towards the end of the same century the work was utilized by Alcuin of 



3. " PMado-Anatolian Paschal Forgery," written in 55C (ed. Krusch, pp. 311-327 ; 

 cf. MmcCarthy, pp. civiii-cxivii). 



4. "Thf Kpistle of St. Cyril on the Paschal Question," forged in 606 (ed. Krusch, 

 pp. 101. 344-:!l!t ; cf. MarC»rthy. pp. cxixiv-cxxxv) ; Ms. Digby (;3. f. W». 



5. *' Epistola Moriani Episcopi Alexandrini de Ortu Pascliali,"' of uncertain date (ed. 

 Muratori. " .\necduu Am)iri>.<>iana," iii, 1713, pp. 195-196 ; cf. MacCarthy, p. cxl] ; iLs. 

 Digby 63, %. ii..., ff. 79a-81a ; Paris, 16361. 



6. " De xii Abuaiuis Saecoli," attributed in most of the mss. to Cyprian. In some to 

 Augustine, and occasionally to Isidore. Hellmann, to whom we owe an excellent 

 critical e»lition of the tract ("Textc und I'ntersuchungen," etc., herau.'g. von Hariiack 

 nnd Schmidt. Bd. 34, Heft 1. 1909. pp. 1 62), has pn)ved that it was written in Ireland 

 between the years 63*) and 700 (cf. also Manitius, " Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur 

 des Mittelalters.' i. 1911, pp. 107-108). 



7. "De Tribus Habiiaculis," a Pseudo-Augustinian work of unknown date (ed. 

 Migne, " Patrol. Lat." 40, cols. 9fil-9J»8. and also 53, cols. 831-838). The only evidence 

 for connecting it with Ireland is its attribution to St. Patrick in the following mss. : — 

 Troyes. 1562, ». xii : Oxford. Rawlinson C. 33, s. xii^., and Corpus Christi Coll., 212, 

 B. xii : Cambridge. Gonrille and Cains College, 239, s. liiin. Other si8.s. of saec. xiii, 

 xiv, and xv attribute it to St. Augustine, «.<j.. Cambridge, Trinity College, Nos. 59, 164, 

 and 32.1; British Mu.<ieum, Arundel 165; Metz, 358; and many others. In Oxford, 

 Digby 96. s. xiin., it is anonymous. Internal evidence shows that the work can have 

 been written neither liy St. .-Vugustine nor by St. Patrick. 



'The earlie.st investigation of this work is due to Bruno Krusch ("Stndien zur 

 christlich-mitteUlterlichen Chronologie." 1880. p. 10), but its origin was first accurately 

 worked out by MacCarthy ("Aunals of risier." iv. 19ftl. pp. Ixvii-lxx and clxxviii- 

 dxxx). 



