EsPOSlTO — Hiberno-Latin MS8. in the Libraries of Switzerland. 5 



xL Eugientemque' leonem aiidies," 

 xviiii. Soliun sane decies et nouies.^ 



Bouem solum fatentem* inuenies, 

 Ixxii. Verba Dei bis° et septuagies. 40 



Subuolantem ad astra repperies,' 

 scvii. Nonagies loqui atque septies.' 



For the subject of this remarkable poem see Apoc. iv. 7, and Manitius (loc. 

 cit. supra, p. 481). With regard to the metre, each liue consists of eleven 

 syllables with a caesura after the fourth. The verses rhyme in groups of 

 four, two, and six. See further the memoirs of Bartsch, WUhelm Meyer, and 

 Manitius already quoted. 



Lauren tins has also left us an acrostic and telestic poem in ten bad hexa- 

 meter lines, which is found on the last page of the Maihiagen MS. It was 

 published by Wattenbach (loc. cit. supra), and has since been reprinted by 

 Eiese (Anthologia Latina, tom. i, pars i, ed. 2, 1894, p. 30). See also Manitius 

 (loc. cit. supra, p. 379). 



2. MS. C. 78 (451). 



A quarto parchment MS. dating from the end of the ninth or beginning of 

 the tenth century, of great importance from the point of view of Carolingian 

 Latin poetry. It has been described very fully by Orelli (Helperici sive ut 

 alii arbitrantur AngiLberti Carolus Magnus et Leo iii, Turici 1832,^ pp. 2-5). 

 Formerly it belonged to the monastery of St. Gallen. On fol. 159 r" occurs 

 a poem in 120 rhythmical lines by St. Columbanus, wMch is found only in 

 this MS. It has been edited by Gundlach (Mon. Germ. Hist., Epistolae, iii, 

 1892, pp. 155, 188-190). See also Diimmler (Mon. Germ. Hist., Poetae, i, 

 1881, pp. 2, 88, 270, 358, 441 ; ii, 1884, p 474) ; Baehrens (Poetae Latini 

 Minores, iii, 1881, pp. 103-105, 209 ; v, 1883, p. 262j ; Gundlach (Neues Archiv 

 der Gesellschaft fiir iiltere deutsche Geschichtskunde, xv, 1889, p. 514) ; Eiese 

 (Anthologia Latiua, i, pt. 2, ed. 2, 1906, pp. 38, 59, 82, 130, 134, 158) ; Manitius 

 (Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters, Erster Teil, 1911, 

 pp. 186-187, 248n, 546-547). 



3. MS. C. 99. 



A parchment MS. written in the ninth century. It consists of thirty-one 

 folios and contains only the important commentary of Sedulius Scottus on 

 the grammarian Eutyches. A description has been given by Hagen, who has 



' rugientem quern B. * audaciter B. ^ noies M ; nonies P. 



* fantem B. ' uerbi diuis B. ^ reperies B. ' sexies P. 



* of. Index Lectionum Vniversitatis Turicensis, 1835-36. 



