Lawloh — The Oathach of St. Columha. 819 



This conclusion is confirmed by two facts. In the first place, hiinet is 

 written in the colophon in error for mihimei. This mistake is quite possible 

 in the case of a scribe copying a doeitraent : it is much less likely to have 

 been made in the note as originally written. 



Again, the colophon is in a most unusual place. It stands quite early in 

 the volume in the second column of f. 12'', immediately before the beginning 

 of the Gospel according to St. Matthew. Now ff. 8-12, 234^-244 contain 

 the breues causae and argumcnta of the four Gospels. Examination proves that 

 some of these leaves have been misplaced. They may be divided into two 

 groups of originally consecutive leaves. The first group consists of ff. 234''- 

 237,' 11, 12. It contains the breues causae of St. Luke and St. John and 

 the colophon. The second group consists of ff. 8-10, 238-244. It contains 

 the remainder of the breues cazcsae and the argumenta ; and, so far as the 

 indications of the text go, it may have either preceded St. Matthew or 

 followed the breues causae of St. John. But the manuscript is miich stained 

 by water which has clearly been poured upon it, and has filtered through a 

 number of leaves. As might be expected, the outlines of the stains on 

 successive leaves are very similar to each other.- Now using this test, we 

 find that the leaves divide themselves again into two groups, each group 

 containing leaves which were not necessarily consecutive, but which must 

 have been near each other at the time when the book was subjected to injury 

 by water. These groups are ff. 8-11, 12 (?), 238-244, andff. 234-237. There 

 is, therefore, no doubt that ff. 8-10, the first three of the second group of 

 consecutive leaves mentioned above, must have been in close proximity to 

 ff. 11, 12, the last two of the first group of consecutive leaves. Thus the 

 whole set of leaves which we are considering must have followed the fourth 

 Gospel in the order, 234'-237, 11-12, 8-10, 238-244. 



Having re-arranged these leaves, let us note their contents. They are 

 as follows : — 



Breues causae of St. Luke. 



Breues causae of St. John. 

 Colophon. 



Br-eues causae of St. Matthew. 

 Argumentum of St. Matthew. 

 Breues causae of St. Mark. 

 Argumentum of St. Mark. 

 Argumentum, of St. Luke. 

 Argumentum of St. John. 



' This leaf is reversed. 



^ Mr. A. de Burgh, Senior Assistant Librarian of Trinity College, called my attention 

 to this fact. 



