2 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



was formerly the property of the monastery of St. Gallen,' bat was removed 

 to Ziirieh in 1712. This Jis. was copied in Germany, apparently by a scribe 

 named Euadkenis, about the year 879., Titles are in red, and there are a few 

 maj^inal notes. A very full and, I found, perfectly accurate account of the 

 contents of this MS. has already been given by Johannes Huemer (Wiener 

 Studien, ii, 1880, pp. 71, 82 sq. ; Sedulii Opera Omnia, 1885, pp. xLi, siii, and 

 luvenei Evangeliomm Libri iv, 1891, pp. xxxi, xlvi, ap. Corp. Script. Eccles. 

 Lat. Tindob., tom. 10, 24 See also Schenkl, Poetae Christiani ilinores, 

 1888, p. 520, ap. Corp. Script. Eceles. Lat. Yindob., tom. 16, pars 1). It is 

 therefore unnecessary for me to repeat it here. 



On f ol. 2 T"-2 v° occurs a rhythmical poem in thirty-six lines on the ten 

 Eusebian canons. This poem has for its author an Irishman named 

 Laurentius, who must have lived towards the end of the sixth or the beginning 

 of the seventh century. Laurentius is the Latinized form of the Lri.sh Lorcan. 

 Ifothing whatever is known of this peKonage beyond the fact that he was the 

 scribe of the splendidly illuminated copy of the Gospels written in an Irish 

 hand, which is now preserved in the Oettingen-WaUei-steinsehe Fideicommiss- 

 Bibliothek- at Maihingen in Bavaria. This poem was printed for the first 

 time by Andre Du Chesne (Alcuini Opera, Parisiis 1617, p. 1686) from a Jis. in 

 the monastery of St. Bertinus near St. Omer. This Jis. is apparently no longer 

 in existence. Du Chesne's edition was reprinted by Frobenius in 1777 (Alcuini 

 Opera, Eatisbon 1777, tom. ii pars I, p. 204). In 1855 Dom Pitra, who was 

 unaware of the previous editions, published the poem from a M.S. in the 

 library at Poitiers (Spicil^um Solesmense, tom. iii, 1855, pp. 407-408). This 

 edition appears to have entirely escaped the notice of the subsequent workei-s. 

 In 1878 and 1879 the poem was printed independently by Baitseh (Zeitschrift 

 fiir Eomanische Philologie, 1878, ii, pp. 216-217), and by Diimmler (Anzeiger 

 fur Kunde der deutschen Vorzeit, 1879, xxvi, pp. 80 sq.), both editoi-s 

 employing the Maihingen MS. mentioned above. Since then the meti*e has 

 been investigated by Wilhelm Meyer (Sitzungsberichte der K. B. Akademie, 

 Philos-PhUol. Classe, Miinchen, 1882, Heft i, p. 91: see also Du Meril, 

 Poesies populaires latines anterieures au xii'^ siecle, 184o, p. 85n.: Watten- 

 bach, Anzeiger fiir Kunde der deutschen Torzeit, 1869, xra, pp. 289-29-3, and 

 Ee^-ue Celtique, 1870, i, pp. 27-31 : Diimmler, ilon. Germ. Hist., Poetae, i, 

 1881, pp. 164. 631 ; Huemer luvenei Evangehoruni Libri iv, 1891, p. xxvii. 



1 The stamp of the monastery oeeurs on fol. 125 t°. 



-This important lihrary contains some loOi jiss. As far as I am aware that section of the very 

 summary index dealing with the Theological asss. has not yet been published, ef. "Weinberger 

 (Sitzungsberichte der K. Aiad. in Wien, Philos.-Hist. Klasse.'Bd. 161, Abiil. 4, 1909, p. 64), and 

 for infoimauon as to the origin of this library cf. Kelle (ibid., Bd. 143, Abhl. 1-5, 1901, pp. 1-8). 



