rj^O l''rnrcr(h)uiH nf Uic Iloi/ul, frkh Acddcmjl. 



The auLlior ol the liiah hyuiii m piaise of St. iiiigid kiiovvu as the "Hymn 

 of St. Broccan " cauiiot have lived before the ninth century.' Windisch^ has 

 pomted out that the order of the incidents in the Life of St. Brigid by 

 Cogitosus is almost exactly their oi'der in this hymn; and it is impossible 

 to doubt that the author drew directly from Cogitosus. Atkinson had a 

 theory that this hymn is a translation of Cogitosus produced by a school 

 of writers.' 



I do not think that tlie ^^ita of Cogitosus was made use of by the authors 

 of any of the Lives of St. Brigid which l)ear the numbers 1455-56, 1458, 

 1460,1461 in the &&^imxa^AQ Bihlioilicca Hcujioyrcqihica Latina compiled by 

 the Brussels BoUandists.* John of Tynemouth drew his narrative (BHL. 

 1462) not from Cogitosus, as has been stated Ijy Hardy" and by O'Hanlon,' 

 but from the Life BHL. 1455-56, and the same origin is to be assigned to 

 the Life given by Surius.' Giraldus Cambrensis"* has some account of Kildare 

 and of the miracles of St. Brigid, but, contrary to the statement of O'Hanlou," 

 he has not taken his information from Cogitosus, and the same is true of the 

 brief account of the Saint found in the Appendix afterwards added to the 

 Aurea Zegenda of Jacobus de Voragine.'" On the other hand, the compiler of 

 the Lectioues de S. Brigida in the Aberdeen Breviary of 1509 appears to have 

 used Cogitosus." But I am notable to say whether his Vita was drawn upon 

 by any of the following authors, all of whom have compiled brief narratives 

 of St. Brigid : — Vinceutius Bellovacensis,'- Petrus de Natalibus,'' Johannes de 

 Grandisson," the compiler of the Hystorie plurimorum sanctorum,'* Jacobus 



' Cf. Alldusoii up. BeiiKirJ and Atkiiisou, Irish Libei- Hjmnoium, 1S9S, ii, p. Ivi. It is well, 

 however, to bear in mind the fantastical nature of much of Dr. Atkinson's metrical speculation, 

 cf. Whitley Stokes, Revue Celtique, t. vi, 1885, pp. 298-308, and Gaston Paris, Romania, t. v, 

 1876, pp. 384-389. 



2 Irische Texte, 1880, pp. 26-49. 



'■' Bernard and Atkinson, loc. cit., ii, p. Iv, cf. pp. 1-lvi, 189, 195-204. 



' 2 vols. Briixellis, 1898-1901, .ind Supplemeutum, 1911. It is now the custom to identify 

 Lives of Saints by quoting the numbers assigned to them in this work. The Vita by Cogitosus bears 

 the number 1457. 



° Descriptive Catalogue, etc., i, pt. 1, 1862, p. 110. 



« Lives of the Irish Saints, ii [1877 ?], p. 15. 



' De probatis sanctorum historiis, Ooloniae (1570, i, 782-785 ; 1576, i, 806-809 ; 1018, ii, 19-20) ; 

 Augustae Taurinorum (1875, ii, 42-47). 



' 'i'opograpliia Hibernica, cap. 34-39 (Opera, ed. Dimock, EoUs Series, vol. 5, 1867, pp. 120- 

 124). 



'■' Lives of the Irish Saints, iv [1886 ?], p. 233. 



"^ Jacobi a Voragine Legenda Aurea recensuit Graesse, ed. 2, Lipsiae, 1850, pp. 902-903. 



" Acta Sanctorum, Feb. t. i, p. 118. 



'- Speculum Historiale, xxii, 29-32. 



'■' Catalogus Sanctorum, etc., iii, 69. 



" Legenda Sanctorum, ed. Reynolds, vol. ii, part 3, London, 1880, fol. 22v°. 



'^ Colouiae, 1483, fol. 241d-242d; ed. Lovanii, 1485, fol. 20v°-21v°. 



