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THE CATHACH OF ST. COLUMBA. 



By EEV. H. J. LAWLOE, D.D, Litt.D. 



Plates XXXIII-XXXVIII. 



Eead Januaky 10. Published Septembeu 4, 1916. 



COiXTENTS. 



Principal Authorities, . 



Introduction — 



The Discovery of the Manuscript, 



Description, 



Orthography, . 



The Text, 



The Rubrics, . 



The Date of the Manuscript, 



The Battle of Cul Dremhne, 



St. Finnian's Book, . 



Conclusion, 



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PAOn 



The Text of the Psalter, . . . 332 



Appendices — 



I. The Shrine of the Cathaoh, . 390 

 II. Palaeographical Notes, 



1. The Script of the Cathacb, 397 



2. The Colophon of the Burrow 



Book, .... 403 



III. The Tract " De Causa Peregri- 



nationis S. Columbae," . . 408 



IV. Psalm Headings, . . . 413 



Index, 437 



PEIISTCIPAL AUTHOEITIES. 



Adamnan. — Adamnani Vita Sancti Columbae. See Eeeves. 



Bbhger — Histoire de la Vulgate pendant les premiers siecles du Moyen Age, 



par Samuel Berger, Paris, 1893. 

 Bright-Eamsay. — Liber Psalmorum. The West-Saxon Psalms ; being the 



prose portion, or the " first fifty " of the so-called Paris Psalter, ed. J. W. 



Wright and E. L. Eamsay, Boston and London, 1907. 

 Cod. Sal. — Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae ex Codice Salmanticensi, ed. C. de 



Smedt et J. de Backer, Edinburgh, 1888. 

 CoLGAN. — Acta Sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiae sen Hiberniae, vol. i, 



1645, vol. ii (Triadis Thaumaturgae . . . Acta), 1647, ed. Joannes 



Colganus. 

 Heyse-Tischendokf. — Biblia Sacra Latina Veteris Testamenti, ed. T. Heyse 



et C. de Tischendorf, Lipsiae, 1873. 

 Keating. — The History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D., ed. D. Comyn 



and P. S. Dinneen (Irish Texts Society), London, 1902-1914. 

 Lagaede. — Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos Hieronymi, ed. P. deLagarde, Lipsiae 



1874. 



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