310 P7-orrf'ilni(/ft of fhc Hnjjal frish Actdfin'/. 



Lilienfeid, Stiftsbibliothek. 

 MS. No. 58. Membr. saec. xiii, 'fols. 108 b-112 h. A volume of Vitae 

 Sanctorum.' The Cistercian monastery of Lilienfeid is also situated in Lower 

 Austria. 



Loudon, British Museum. 



MS. Cotton ISTero, E. i. A folio parchment MS., dating probably from the 

 first half of the eleventh century. It contains Lives and Passions of the 

 Saints, a list of which has been given by Planta," and was clearly written in 

 England, probably in the west, perhaps at Worcester. Charters relating to 

 Worcester are added in a later hand, and the Life of St. Egwin of Worcester 

 is the second in the collection, yielding precedence only to that of St. Oswald 

 of York. This ms. contains on fols. 167 b-173 a the Confessio and Epistola of 

 St. Patrick, which have been collated by Newport White, who, however, 

 wrongly assigns the Jis. to the twelfth century.' The Vita S. Brigidae 

 occupies fols. 134 b-140 a, of which I have made a careful collation. The 

 text is carelessly written, and is inferior to that printed by the Bollandists. 

 Besides a very considerable number of niiuor omissions, there is a large gap in 

 section 34 according to the edition of the Bollandists, or chapter 32 according 

 to the Index, which I shall pubHsh further on from a Paris MS. The same 

 gap occurs in the Oxford MS., PeU. 4, to be described presently, the text of 

 which agrees very closely with that of Nero, E. i, but the Oxford ms. was not 

 copied directly from the London one. Both were undoubtedly derived from 

 the same original. The London ms. may be assigned to the first half of 

 saec. xi,* the Oxford ms. to the beginning of saec. xii or extreme end of 

 saec. xi. The palaeographer will be able to judge from the facsimiles 

 appended to this paper. The Vita S. Brigidae commences on fol. 134 h, col. 2 

 of the London ms. ; Incipit %dta See hrigide idrginis quod est M. Fehruarii. 

 Be" Goijitis Frs Vt See cie heat% ntemori^ BRIGIDE uirginis vArtutes et opera 

 dociorum memori^ litterisqtie tradere adgrediar. The text then runs on 

 continuously without any headings or division into chapters. It ends on 

 fol. 140 a, col. 2 : Orate pro me cogitos nc inputetis cidpahili et ut audacie 

 i/ieg iiuhdgeatis atque orationmn urcTnivi pio dm me comedetis'^ et ds oin 



' Ct. Analecta BoUandiana, 17, 1898, pp. 28, 44. 



- Catalogue of the MSS. in tlie Cottonian Library, 1802, pp. 239-241. 



aprog^ R. I. Acad., 1905, vol. xxv, Section C, pp. 205, 212. Krusch, who has collated the 

 Vita S. Fursei contained on fols. 93a-97b of this Jis., assigns it to saec. x/xi (Mon. Genu. Hist., 

 Script. Ker. Meroving., t. iv, 1902, p. 429). 



* I am indebted to Mr. R. W. Flower of the British Museum for some information regarding 

 this MS. 



' ^'^^ '^o'^- V'O Me. 6 Sic cod. 



