312 Proceedings of the Rojial Irish Academy. 



Nivelles,' Eibliutheque d'Alphonse Wins. 

 MS. No. 4. Membr. saec. xi, fols. 25 r'-SG r", A mere fragment of tlic 

 Vita.= Formerly a leaf of the MS. marked LLL in the library of the 

 Benedictine mona.stery of Cella at Saiut-Ghislain in Belgium. This is 

 undoubtedly the Jfs. mentioned by Hardy.^ 



Oxford, Bodleian Library. 



MS. i'ell 4 (formerly Fell o). Membr. saec. xi/xii, fols. 108 a-116 b. The 

 contents of this ua., which contains Lives of Saints, have never been fully 

 enumerated. That portion containing the Confessio and Epistola of 

 St. Patrick has Iseen collated by Newport White,' and I have collated 

 tlie Vita S. Brigidae. As already remarked, this Jis. agrees very closely 

 with the British Museum one, both apparently having been copied from the 

 same original. There is the same gap in section 34, and the same minor 

 omissions and careless grammatical errors throughout. This MS. is part of a 

 set of four volumes of Vitae Sanctorum.* 



A. Saints commemorated January to June. 



B. „ „ July to October. 



C. „ „ January to June. 



D. „ „ November to December. 



Of these B and C are parts of the same MS. (mss. Fell 1 and Fell 4). A is 

 a relic of another MS,, and D is a relic of another MS. written at St. Augustine's, 

 Canterbury. The set is thus all that remains of three collections of Vitae 

 Sanctorum. They were all once in Salisbury Cathedral Library.'^ 



Fell 4 is a folio volume written in single columns with thirty-six lines 

 to the page. The Vita S. Brigidae commences on fol. 108 a: Iiic Vita 

 Scq Brigide Virg- Qd E Kl Febr. Me cogitis frs ut scg ac heat^ memori^ hrigid^ 

 uirginis uirtutes et oga docto7'um memoriq litterisque tradere aggrediar. The 

 text runs on continuously without any headings or division into chapters. It 

 ends on fol. 116b: Orate pro me cogitos' ne inimteis' e-ulpabili et ut audaci^ 

 me^ indulgeatis atquc orationum uraru pio dno me comdetis- et deus omipspaeem 

 exoro euangelica secfantibus exaudiat. JSxpY Vita K Brigide. 



' Arrondissement de Bruxelles (Prov. de Brabant). 



2 Cf. Analecta BoUandiana, 12, 1893, p. 412. 



'Descriptive Catalogue of British History, i, pt. 1, 1862, p. 116. 



*Proe. R.I. Acad., 1905, vol. xxv, Section C, pp. 205, 212. 



*0n tlie later history of these volumes cf. Lawlor, Trans. R. 1. Acad., 1902, vol, xxxii. Section C, 

 pp. 36-37. 



° I have to thank Mr. Falconer Madan for an interesting communication relative to these mss. 

 Mr. Madim a?>signs Fell 4 to the first half of saec. sii. 



'Sic cod. 



