EsposiTO — On the Earliest Latin Life of St. Brigid of Kildare. 3ll 



'[laceni cxoiv ciauir/iic/oii secUmtibus cxaudiat. Explic uita see Briyidc. The 

 text is written in double columns, with forty-three lines to the column. 

 The dimensions of each column of writing are 33 ems. by 9'5 ems. 



Melk, Stiftsbibliothek. 

 MS. F. 8. Membr. saec. xiiie^., ff. 212b-2i7b. A volume of Vitae 

 Sanctorum.' The Benedictine monastery of Melk is situated in Lower 

 Austria. 



Metz, Stadtbibliothek. 



MS. N"o. 523. Membr. saec. xiex-., fols. 194-205. A volume of Vitae et 

 Passiones Sanctorum obtained from the ancient monastery of Saint-Arnoul at 

 Metz (cf. Delisle, Le Cabinet, etc., ii, p. 401). The prologue is missing in this 

 lis. The closing phrase reads, atquc orationum iiesti'arum 'pio domino me 

 eommendetis ct deus nobis pacem ex- ore cuaiigelica sectanfibus eaxtudiat 

 adimianfe domino nostra, etc. This MS. also contains the Vita S. Columbani 

 by Jonas (fols. 19-51), and (fols. 51-65 b) an unpublished life of St. Columba 

 of Hy, an abridgment of Adamnan's work (cf. Catal. gen. des Jiss. des Bibl. 

 Publ, 4to series, t. v, 1879, p. 195 ; Lawlor, Trans. E. I. Acad., 1902, vol. xxxii, 

 Section C, pp. 14-15 ; Krusch, Script. Ker. Meroving., t. iv, 1902, p. 42, and 

 Jonas, ed. 1905, p. 97 ; Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, ed. Bolland., 

 No. 1889). 



Munich, K. Hof- u. Staats-Bibliothek. 



This Library possesses two jiss. of the Vita S. Brigidae. 



(1.) Cod. Lat. No. 18854. Membr. saec. xi, fols. 85a-112a. A volume of 

 Vitae Sanctorum.^ It was formerly No. 854 in the Benedictine monastery of 

 Tegernsee' in Bavaria. 



(2.) Cod. Lat. No. 22240. Membr. c. 1150-1200, fols. 154a-lGla. A 

 volume of Vitae Sanctorum.'' Formerly No. 40 in the Premonstratensian 

 convent of St. Mary at Windberg in the diocese of liatisbon. 



Naples, K. Biblioteca Nazionale. 

 Cod. viii. B. 3. Membr. saec. xi, fols. 379 a-o88 b, written in a Beneventine 

 hand. Provenance not known," 



' Cf. Analectii BolUindiiina, 17, 1S9S, pp. 32, 44; Krusch, Mon. Germ. Hist., Script. Rer. 

 Meroving., t. iv, 1902, p. 431. 



-Cf. Ciitalogus Codicum Latinorum Bibliothecae Regiae Monacensis, tomi ii, pars 3, 187S, 

 p. 213. 



^Cf. Gottlieb, Ueber mittelalterliche Bibliotbeken, Leipzig, 1890, pp. 77, 388. 



* Catal. Cod. Lat. Bibl. Reg. Monacensis, tomi ii, pars 4, 1881, p. 33 ; Analeota Bollaniliana, 17, 

 1898, pp. 97, 104. 



^Poncelet, Analecta BoUandiana, 30, 1911, p. 157. 



