308 Procrcdiiigx of the Roi/al Irish Academ;/. 



by Basnat'e, in 1725,' and the latter's edition was in turn reproduced by 

 Mi<Tie.' Canisius employed a MS. of little value then preserved in the 

 Dominican monastery at Eichstatt in Bavaria.' I have not succeeded in tracing 

 this MS. The Canisian text was also reprinted in 1624 by Jlessingham.* 



(3.) A better text was given in 1647 by Colgau/ who employed MSS. which 

 he found in the Benedictine monasteries of Saint-Hubert* and Saint- Amand.' 

 The Saint-Hubert MS. has not apparently survived,* but that from Saint- 

 Amand I believe to be the now mutilated Paris Ars. lat. No. 2999, which 

 will be described fui-ther on. 



(4) In every way the best edition that has yet appeared is that published 

 by the BoUandists in 1658,^ who say : " Secundam [\-itam] descripsei-at 

 Eosweydus e vetustissimo codice D. Preudhomii Canonici Atrebatensis, quam 

 contulimus cum MS3. monasteriorum S. Maximini Treuh-is, Wiblingensis 

 in Sueuia, Bodeeensis in Westphalia, eumque editionibus Hem-iei Canisii e 

 Jis. Aistadiano, et loannis Colgani ex MSS. S. Huberti ac S. AmandL"'" The 

 first of the above MSS., that formerly belonging to Pierre Preudhomme, is now 

 No. 865 in the Public Library at Cambrai. I have not been able to trace the 

 othei-s." 



II. — The Maxusgeipts. 



The following list of the M5.S. does not pretend to be complete. As the 

 splendid cataloguing work of the BoUandists of Brussels proceeds, no doubt 

 others will come to light. 



' Basnage, Thesaurus Monumentorum Ec-elesi<isticorum et Historieoruni, fol. Amstelaedami, 172.5, 

 t.i, pp. 413-424. 



- Patrologia Latina, t. 72, eols. 775-790. 



' THs monastery was founded in 1279 and secularized in 1802. Only two of its jiss. appear 

 to hare found their way to Munich (ef. Catalogus codicum Latinorum BibUothecae Eegiae 

 Monacensis, t. i, pars 3, 1873, p. 70). 



' Messingham, Florilegium Insulae Sanctorum, fol. Parisiis, 1624, pp. 189-200. 



* Colgan, Acta Sanctorum Hibemiae, t. ii, Trias Thaumaturga, fol. Lovanii, 1647, pp. -518-526. 



' Sair.t- Hubert in the province of Luxemburg, Belgium. 



'• Saint- Amand-Les-Eaux (Dep. du X ord). 



^ The catalogue of the Saiut-Hubert Jiss. published in 1644 by Sanderus (Bibliotheca Belgica 

 Manuscripta, 4to. Insulis, 1614, pars 2, p. 177) mentions three volumes of Lives and Passions of 

 Saints. The Public Library at Jfamjir possesses four hagiographical Mss. from Saint-Hubert 

 ef. Analec-ta BolJandiana, i, 1S82, pp. 48.5-505), but the Vita S. Erigidae is not among them. Cf. 

 Bethmaun (Pertz, Archiv, 8, 1843, p. 26) on the history of the Saint-Hubert MSS. 



' Acta Sanctorum, Februarii tomus i, fol. Antverpiae, 1658, pp. 135-141. 



i"loc. cit., p. 101. 



•' The Benedictine Abbey of St. Maximinus near Trev^ flourished till 1802. On its Mss. cf. Gottlieb, 

 Teber mittelalterliche Bibliotheten, Leipzig 1890, pp. 78, 344-348. There was a Benedictine 

 monastery of St. Martin at Wiblingen in 'Wurtemburg. Of its mss. I know nothing (cf. Jacobs, 

 Zentralblatt fiir Eibliothekswesen, 28, 1911, p. 30). H. Moretus has made a very exhaustive study 

 of the history of the ancient monastery of Eoddeken in the diocese of Paderbom (Analeeta 

 Bollandiana, 27, 1903, pp. 257-358). He did not succeed in tracing the MS. which contained the Vita 

 S. Brigidae. Cf. also Bomer (Zentralblatt fiir Bibliothekswesen, 26, 1909, p. 347). 



