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(2.) MS. No. i4Ul (U. 19j. AlBiiibr. aa.ec. xiii, fols. 145b-152b. A volume 

 <5f Vitae Sanctorum also from the monastery of Jumieges.' 



Valenciennes, Bibliotheque Muuicipale. 



MS. No. 513 (471 a). Membr. saec. xii, fols. 29b-35 a. 



In this copy the Vita is attributed to Becle. A volume of Vitae et 

 Passioues Sanctorum.- Formerly V. 192 in the library of the monastery 

 of Elno at Saint-Amand.^ 



Zwettl, Stiftsbibliothek. 

 MS. Xo. lo. Membr. saec. xiicr. A volume of Vitae Sanctorum.' The 

 Cistercian monastery of Zwettl is situated in Lower Austria. 



The above list, together with the eight mss. described in the Addendum to 

 this paper, includes some 56 mss., of which 43 are complete or practically so.^ 

 Five are as early as saec. x, one dates from saec. x/xi, and eight date from 

 saec. xi. 



III. NuTK u^' THE Vita S. Biugidae. 



Of all the extant documents dealing with St. Brigid of Kildare the Vita 

 by Cogitosus appears to me to be the most ancient.'' It contains the simplest 

 narrative, and, what is specially notable, does not make any mention of 

 St. Patrick, or attempt, as the later Lives do, to bring him into relation with 

 St. Brigid, assuming the incorrect date 493 as the year of his death.' 



' Oiiiout, luu. oil., p. o'JU ; Aualecta Buliuudiaua, 2o, [j. 1G4. 



- Cf. Molinier, Calal. gen. des MSS. des Bibl. Publ. de Frauce, Depurtements, t. 25, 1894, 

 p. 410. 



' Sanderus, Bibliothecii Belgica Mauusuripla, 1641, Pars 1, p. 48; Delisle, Le Cabinet des 

 MSS., etc., t. ii, p. 448 sq. 



* Cf. Aualecta Bollatidiaiia, 17, 1898, pp. iiO, 44. 



^ Haidy (Descriptive Catalogue, etc., i, 1, 1S62, p. llo) refers to a MS. at Lincoln containing 

 " Vita et Miracula S. Brigittae." The Ms. in question is A. 5. 4. in the Catliedral Library. I have, 

 ho^vever, ascertained that it contains not a Life of St. Brigid of Kildare, but the Mtfelatloiu's, etc., of 

 St. BirglUa or Brigitla of Sweden, who lived iu the fourteenth century. Of the fuilow iug Ms. Lives 

 of St. Biigid enumerated by Hardy (loc. cit., pp. 113, 114, 115) I know nothing: — "Vita 

 S. Brigidae Scolice, mutila, ms. Insul. apud Claudium Doresmieulx " ; ''Vita S. Brigidae. MS. 

 Clarendon 65 f.-4 " ; "Vita Brigidae. MS. Monast. de Becco 128 " ; " Vita S. Brigidae. MS. Bibl. 

 Monast. S. Audoeni Eothomag. 104." In the Stadtbibliothek at Metz there is a MS., No. 397, saec. 

 xiviii., coutaining "Miracula Beate Brigide" (cf. Catalogue general des mss. des Bibl. Publ., 4to 

 series, t. v, 1879, p. 164). The description given in the printed catalogue is not sufficient to enable 

 me to identify the work. 



° The BoUandists (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, No. 1455-56) regard the first Life (Acta 

 Sanctorum, Feb. t. i, pp. 118-134) as the most aucient. But this is no doubt on the strength of 

 Colgan's attribution to St. TJltan, for which there is no serious foundation in my opinion. 



" Cf. on this point Bury, Life of St. Patrick, 19U5, p. 332. 



