EsposiTO — Hiherno-Latin MSS. in the Libraries of Switserland. 7 



4 MS. No. 212. 



A quarto parchment MS. of saec. ix/x (Hagen, Catalogus, etc., pp. 260-61). 

 On fol. 123 r°-126 r° occur five acrostic poems by an Irishman named 

 Josephus Scottus (fl. c. 790). They have been published by Diimmler (Mon. 

 Germ.' Hist , Poetae, i, 1881, pp. 149-159, ef. pp. 168, 442; ii, 1884, p. 690). 

 See also Riese (Anthologia Latina, i, pt. 2, ed. 2, 1906, pp. 6, 383); Esposito 

 (Proc.H. I.Acad., 1910, xxviii, Section C, pp. 73-74; Hermathena, 1911, svi, 

 p. 329) ; Manitius (Gesehichte, etc., 1911, pp. 542-549). 



5. MS. No. 258. 



A quarto parchment MS. dating from the ninth century (Hagen, Catalogus, 

 etc., pp. 288-90), Among other things it contains a glossary to the books of 

 the Old Testament, which Giiterbock (Zeitschrift fiir vergleichende Sprach- 

 forschung, 33 [N.F. 13], 1895, p. 103) has shown to be partly the work of 

 Joannes Scottus. See further Whitley Stokes (The Academy, xxx, 1886, 

 p. 228) ; Stokes and Strachan (Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus, i, 1901, pp. xiii, 2). 



6. MS. No. 265. 



A folio parchment MS. of saec. x/xi (Hagen, Catalogus, etc., pp. 298-299). 

 It contains on fol. 68 sq. the commentary on the Opuscula Sacra of Boethius 

 by Joannes Scottus, which has been studied and edited by Eand (Johannes 

 Scottus, Miinchen, 1906, pp. 4, 28, 99, ap. Traube, Quellen imd Untersuchungen, 

 etc., Heft 2). See also Esposito (Proo. Pt.I. Acad., 1910, xxviii, Section C, 

 pp. 71, 79) ; Manitius (Geschichte, etc., 1911, p. 337). The same commentary 

 occurs in the two following MSS. 



7. MS. No. 510. 



An octavo parchment MS. of saec. ix/x (Hagen, Catalogus, etc., p. 431). 

 On fol. 1 sq. is found the commentary of Joannes Scottus just mentioned. 

 See Eand (loc. cit., pp. 4, 28, 98), and the references given in the preceding 

 paragraph. 



8. MS. No. 517. 



An octavo parchment MS. of saec. ix/x (Hagen, Catalogus, etc., p. 433). 

 On fol. 22 sq. occurs the commentary of Joannes Scottus found in the two 

 MSS. just described. See the authorities already cited. 



. 9. MS. No. 363. 

 This most important MS., which has been very frequently studied and 

 described, was reproduced in photographic facsimile at Leyden in 1897 with 



