EsposiTO — On the Earliest Latin Life of St. Bri(jid of Kildare. 321 



Philippus Bergomeusis,' Petrus Galo," Johannes Gielemans,^ and Bernard 

 Gui.^ 



It may be useful bo enumerate briefly here a number of anonymous Jis. 

 accounts. of St. Brigid, the relation of which to the printed lives remains 

 unknown : — Florence, Laurentian Library, brief Lecliones de S. BH/jida in a 

 late Lectionarium* ; London, British Museum, ms. Arundel 198, fol. 19 b, a 



short lection, Beata Brigida in Scotia nafa migravit ad Domimmf ; 



Munich, Cod. Lat. No. 14565, saec. xiii/xiv, formerly F. 68 in the 

 Benedictine monastery of St. Emmeram at Eegensburg,' fol. 2 b, Legeiida de 

 sancta Brigida. Ad sancti.^'simain beate virgiiiis Briyide ritam, etc. It breaks 



off abruptly exinde rercrsi sunt ad propria. Quodam^ ; Naples, 



Bibl. Nazionale, ms. viii. B. 18, saec. xv, fols. 269 b-270 b, De 8. Brigida' ; 

 Paris, Bibl. Nationale, iis. lat. No. 10870, saec. xiii, from the monastery of 

 Echternach, fol. 105r°, Legenda de S. Brigida}" ; MS. lat. No. 755, saec. xiiiex., 

 fols. 155 a-156 a, Legenda de S. Brigida^^ ; Eome, Vatican, Lecliones de 

 S. Brigida,^' in three Mss. of saec. xv, Palatinus No. 4.35, fols. 114-116, 213 b- 

 214 b ; Palatinus No. 436, fols. 77 b-80 ; Palatinus No. 477, fols. 36-36 b.'= 



IV. — Note on Cogitosus. 



In the dedicatory preface to his life of St. Patrick, Muirchu Maecu 

 Machtheni tells us that he is venturing on a novel experiment, which had 

 before been tried in Ireland only by his father Coguitosus or Cogitosus." 



' De Claris selectisque plurimis niulieiibus, Ferraviae, 1497, cap. 137. 



- The legendarinm of Petriis Calo has not yet been printed. It has been analysed in the Analecta 

 Bollandiana (torn. 29, 1910, cf. p. .i8). The acconnt of St. Brigid would not appear to have been 

 derived from Cogitosus. The Legendarbim also contains a \'ita S. Patricii (cf. loc. cit., p. 63). 



^ Cf. the analysis of his unpublished <SrtHrf!7o(/!»H! in Analecta Bollandiana (t. 14, 189.5, p. 20). 

 He also has a Vita S. Patricii (cf. loc. cit., p. 34). 



'' Compiler of a Speculum Snnciorale extant in two Paris mss. of saec. xiv, Nos. .5406 and 5407 

 (cf. Catal. cod. hag. lat. Bibl. Nat. Parisiensis, t. iii, 1893, p. 555). 



= Cf. Bandini, Catal. Cod. Lat. Bibl. Med. Laurent., t. iv, p. 323. 



6Cf. Hardy, Descriptive Catalogue, etc., i, pt. 1, 1862, p. 112. 



' Cf. Gottlieb, Ueber mittelalterliche Bibliothekeii, 1890, pp. 67-68, and 383-384. 



8 Cf. Catal. cod. lat. Bibl. Regiae Monaeensis, tomi ii, pars 2, 1876, p. 193. 



^Poncelet, Analecta Bollandiana, 30, 1911, p. 179. 



i»Cf. Catal. cod. hag. lat. Bibl. Nat. Parisiensis, ii, 1890, p. 610. 



11 Catal., etc., iii, 1893, p. 573. 



'-Poncelet, Catal. cod. hag. lat. Bibliothecae Vaticanae, 1910, pp. 258, 259, 263. 



1^ Cf. also O'Hanlon (Lives of the Irish Saints, ii, [1877 ?], p. 220n. 115). O'Hanlon's account 

 of St. Brigid (loo. tit., pp. 1-224) appears terribly conlused. I have not had the courage to read it 

 right through. It is a pity to see so much genuine learning dispensed in such an unmethodica 

 manner. The article on Cogitosus (loc. cit., iv [1886 ?], pp. 230-235) is equally unreliable. 

 O'Hanlon shows no knowledge of Graves' important paper. 



" Book of Armagh, fol. 20 r°, ed. Stokes (Tripartite Life of St. Patrick, Rolls series, 1887, ii 

 p. 269). I have also been able to consult Gwynn's long-delayed diplomatic edition of the Jis. The 

 passages in question are on p. 39. 



