256 Proceeilivgs of the Royal Irish Academy. 



t SB for s : bassiliseus, cassia, tconfussio (confusio, Ixx. 13), diffussiis, feffussiis 

 (effusus, Ixxii. 2), homolegessem (xliii. 1), tinlussio (inlusio, Ixxviii. 4), 

 missi and compounds, foccassus (oceasus, Ixvii. 5), oecissio, possitus, 

 possui and compounds (posuisti, ciii. 9, 20), propossitio, uissio, fuissito 

 (Iviii. 6). 



t t for d : fDaiiit (Ixxxviii. 4). 



t t for th : Neptali. 



t tfor tt : Matheus. 



t th for t : Loth. 



t ti for ci before voivel. 



t u/or b: thonorificauit (xlix. 23), fsahiauit (liv. 17), fsperauit (Ixiii. 11), 

 tnarrauit (Ixxxvi. 6), tobumbrauit (xc. 4), fclamaiiit (xc. 15), 

 tpertransiuit (cii. 16). 



t u for : tapustolicus, fapustolus, consulatio, eonsulor, eorroburo, fdohis 

 (xxxiv. 20), domii (domo, li. 2), diilor, incensu, lucusta, fnioros 

 (Ixxvii. 47), pentecnsde (Ixxxi. 1), fromanus (xliii. 1). 



t u for uu : phiia, fluius, dihiium (xxxi. 6). 



t X for s : mixto. 



t y /ov i : faegymus (cv. 6), Aethyopia, Aethyop.s, cybo, cybaiia, eylicium, 

 Cysoii, cythara, Hyemisalem (Hieiusalein, Ixiv. 2), hyrcus, Lybaiius 

 (Libanus, Ixxi. 16), senyfes, fsynus, yraber. 



t y for oe : cynomia. 



The Text. 



That the text of the Cathach is fmidamentally Hieronymian is proved by 

 the fact that it is to some extent provided wiLh asterisks and obeli. In the 

 Preface to his second revision of the Latin Psalter St. Jerome mentions as 

 one of the distinguishing features of that work that in it he used asterisks 

 and obeli to denote respectively words in the Hebrew, but not in the 

 Septuagint, and words in the Septuagint, but not in the Hebrew.' Of the 

 three versions of the Psalter made by St. Jerome, these symbols therefore 

 belong only to the second or Gallicau, now usually bound up with the 

 Vulgate ; they had no place in the Roman Psalter, nor, of course, in the 

 Psalter translated from the Hebrew. The Cathach Psalter has then as its 

 ultimate base the Galilean text. 



■ In Psalteruun quud secundum .leptuuij i ata editiuiiem ciirrexit praefaliu : " Notet sibi 

 unusfiaiaque uel iacentem lineam uel .siguii. radiantia ; id e.st, uel obelos uel asteriscos. 

 Et ubicumque iiiderit uirgulam praecedentem, ab ea usque ad duo puncta quae iuijjiL'ssi- 

 mu3, sciat in .septu.aginta translatoribus plu.s haberi. Ubi autem stellae similitudineni 

 perspexerit, de hebraeis uoluminibus additum nouerit aeque usque ad duo puncta, iuxta 

 Theodotionis dumtaxat editionem, qui simplicitate aeriuonis a septuaginta interpretibus 

 non discordat. 



