6 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academij. 



published the tract in full I'Auecdota Helvetica, 1870, pp. Ixxiii-lxxix, 1-38, 

 ap. Keil, Giamruatici Latiui, Supplementum). See also Diiminler (Mou. 

 Gei-m. Hist., Epistolae, vi, 1902, p. 206ii) ; Esposito (Hermatheiia, 1909, xv, 

 p. 361), and Manitius (Geschichte, etc., 1911, p. 318). 



Bern, Stadtbibliothek. 



The City-Library at Bern possesses one of the most important collections 

 of Mss. in Switzerland.' An excellent catalogue of the 722 most ancient and 

 important of them was compiled by Hermann Hageu in 1875.'- 



1. MS. Xo. 19. 



A folio parchment MS. of saec. x/xi, consisting of 68 folios with splendid 

 illuminations (Hagen, Catalogus, etc., p. 12). It contains the Latin trans- 

 lation of the works of the Pseudo-Dionysius made by Joannes Scottus, 

 the preface of Anastasius, and the latter's translation of the scholia of 

 St. Maximus. The work of Joannes was edited by Floss (Migne, Patrologia 

 Latina, 122, 1853, cols. 1023-1194), to whom this MS. was unknown. It 

 belongs to Traube's first or " Franco-Gallic " group, in this respect resembling 

 the Basel Jis. 0. iii, 5, described in my first paper (Proc. E.I.Acad., 1910, 

 xx\iii, Section C, pp. 66-68). See further Traube (Mon. Germ. Hist., Poetae 

 iii, 1896, p. 525) ; Diimnder (Mon. Germ. Hist., Epistolae, ■v'i, 1902, p. 158); 

 Manitius (Geschichte, etc., 1911, p. 333). 



2. MS. No. 167. 



A quarto parchment MS. of saec. ix/x (Hagen, Catalogus, etc, pp. 234-35). 

 It contains on fol. 6 v°-214 v° Vergil's works with the so-called " Scholia 

 Bernensia," compiled by an Irishman named Adananus, who is, no doubt, iden- 

 tical with the celebrated Adamnan of Hy. See Hagen's edition (Jahrb. fiir 

 Class. Philol., Vierter Suppl. Ed., Heft 5, 1867, pp. 690-91), and Stokes (The 

 Academy, xxx, 1886, p. 228) ; Eiese (Anthologia Latina, i, pt. 1, ed. 2, 1894, 

 p. 212 ; pt. 2, 1906, pp. 100, 145); Esposito (Hermathena, 1909, xv, p. 354 ; 

 1910, xvi, p. 63) ; Manitius (Geschichte, etc., 1911, p. 239). The same work 

 occurs in the MS. next to be mentioned. 



3. MS. Xo. 172. 



A quarto parchment MS. of the tenth century (Hagen, Catalogus, etc., 

 p. 237). It contains Vergil's works with the " Scholia Bernensia " as in the 

 pre^^ous MS. jSTo. 167. See the references just given. 



• Amounting in all to about 3401) volumes. - Catalogus codicum Bemensium, Beinae, lS7o. 



