116 Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy. 



my haud ye 9th april 1684." On p. 68 (top margin), ' Mr. Philip Kenedy 

 1699." Philip Kenedy's name is also written at foot of p. 58 of 3 B 23. 

 On p. 44, " To M^^ Magrett Kenedy att Bellafinvoythe . . ." On p. 84, at 

 foot, " Jo. Kenedy his booke . . ." Later the volumes came into the 

 possession of one Torralagh 6 Brin (Turlough O'Brien'), who has written 

 his name at p. 30 of 3 B 23 ; and he is probably the father of the Eandol mac 

 Torr[alaig] whose name occurs at the foot of p. 26 and on p. 28 of the same 

 volume. 



Other names scribbled in the margins of 3 B 22 are Tumultaugh O'Haanly 

 (p. 5), William Chisers (p. 45), William Brin (p. 49), Bradstreet (p. 69), 

 " Owen Coulahan his mark " (p. 80). These persons may not have been owners 

 of the book, but merely witnesses to some legal transaction. 



T'he two volumes afterwards belonged to General Vallancey, as is shown 

 by a slip from a sale catalogue pasted on the first folio of 3 B 22. It runs 

 thus : " 1270 Two Vols beautifully written on Vellum at least 600 years past. 

 These are in excellent preservation and most elegant penmahship \_sic\ small 

 Folio." Mr. E. I. Best has identified this slip as an extract from the catalogue 

 drawn up for the sale of Vallancey 's collection in 1813. 



We are here concerned principally with 3 B 23. This volume consists of 

 41 vellum folios, written in double columns, with from 28 to 36 lines in a 

 column. The average size of the folios is 23 x 15 centimetres. Here 

 follows a full description of the contents; the volume is numbered by 

 pages. 



1. Page 1, column a. Diuerte a malo et fac bonuni inquire pacem et 

 sequere eam .i. Soi a duine o ulc 7 dena maith, etc. 



A homily on the Eight Arrows of Sin, with which the Devil seeks to 

 conquer the citadel of Man. 



After page 6 one or more folios are lost. 



2. P. 7a. immalle re hihesu isa comarli rogabsat, etc. 



It is not clear whether this is the conclusion of the above homily, or of a 

 different one : it ends (7a) 



roisam roaitrebam in saecula saeculorum amen. 



3. P. 7a. Cum ergo facieis elimoysinam noli tuba canere ante te .i. ind tan 

 didiu dogne almsain nachus commaeid amal dogniatt na breccaire, etc. 



A homily on almsgiving, a good deal of which closely reseml^les the tract 

 edited by Atkinson, Passions and Homilies, 6047 et seq. Ends p. 12& : 

 roisam roaitrebam in secula seculorum Amen. FiNlT. 



''0 Brin usually = O'Byrne or O'Beirne, but Turlough (T.oirdelbaoh) is a name very common 

 amoug the O'Briens, while it is not used by the O'Byrnes, if one may judge by the indices to the 

 Annals. 



