Lawlor — The Cathach of Si Columba. 243 



0. — Oxford, Bodleian, Auct. D. 4. 6 (Psalter, Gallicau. Eeading, 1158-1164). 

 P. — Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale, lat. 2 (Second Bible of Charles the Bald. 



Psalter Galilean. France, c. 865). I quote the rubrics from Perrand; 



Liber Psalmorum cum Argumentis, Paraphrasi et AnnotationibuS, 



Luteciae Parisiorum, 1683. 

 Q. — Paris, Bibliothfeque Nationale, lat. 4 (Bible of Le Puy. Psalter according 



to the Hebrew. France, cent, ix init.). I quote the rubrics from 



Ferrand, oj}. cit. 

 E. — Karlsruhe, Augiensis, 107 (Psalter according to the Hebrew, cent. x). 



I have taken the Psalm-headings from the collation in Lagarde. 

 S. — Paris, Bibliotheque Rationale, lat. 8824 (Anglo-Saxon Psalter, cent. xi). 



The entire series of psalm-headings is printed in Bright-Eamsay. 

 T. — British Museum, Cotton, Tiberius C. vi (Latin Psalter, Galilean. 



England, cent. xi). 

 V. — Vulgate or Galilean text of the Psalter, as printed in Heyse-Tischendorf. 

 Z. — British Museum, Stowe 2. (Latin Psalter, Gallican. England, cent. xi). 

 2. — St. John's College, Cambiidge, C. 9. (Southampton Psalter. Irish, 



cent. xi). 

 a. — -Lost ancestor of A and E ; see p. 266. 

 /3. — Lost ancestor of A and B : see p. 275. 

 ■y. — Lo6t ancestor of A and : see p. 288. 

 p.— Lost ancestor of E and Bamberg A. 1. 14 (Quadruple Psalter, 909) : see 



Lagarde, p. iv, and below, p. 266. 



INTEODUCTION. 



The Discovery of the Manuscript. 



In the Library of the Eoyal Irish Academy, where it has been deposited 

 since 1843,' there is a very remarkable cumdach, the property of E. Thomas 

 O'Donel, Esq., d.l. It is of silver, overlaid, in some parts, with gold.- From 

 an inscription on the shrine itself, and another on the case in which in later 

 days it was enclosed, we learn something of its history. It was constructed 

 between 1062 and 1098, at the order of Cathbarr O'Donnell, the head of the 

 clan of which St. Columba of lona was a member, and Domhnall mac Eobartaigh, 

 comarb of St. Columba at Kells, by Sitric, one of a family of artificers who 

 had some connexion with the monastery of Kells. It was repaired some 



' Ifc was handed over to the Royal Dublin Society by Sir Richard O'Donel in April, 1842 

 (Proc. R.D.S., vol. Ixxviii, Proceedings of Council, p. 66), and transferred to the Academy 

 at the end of May, 1843 {ibid., vol. Ixxix, p. 104, Proc. of Council, p. 61 ; Proc. R.I A., 

 ii, 370, 403). 2 For a full description, see Appendix I. 



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