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Proceedings of the Royal Irish Acadenif/. 



The MS. may have been first rescued from its state of disorder at 

 the time when it received its present binding. To judge from the 

 lettering, this must have happened between 1800 and 1850, so that it 

 was very probably O'Curry who restored the proper sequence. The 

 present order is correct, except that fol. 25 of vol. ii. should be 

 fol. 13('?). 



Several folios have been lost : 92 remain, but fol. 52 of vol. ii. is 

 numbered 105 in the old pagination, so that 13 folios at least are 

 missing. There are gaps before ff. 25 and 32 of vol. i., and before 

 ff. 1, 15, 38, 43, and 51 of vol. ii. In the description which follows, 

 the first number denotes the present order ; the numbers in brackets 

 are those of the old pagination, where it is decipherable. 



The contents are almost entirely ecclesiastical or hagiological ; 

 the few profane legends which are included are almost all connected 

 with some saint. The text, though incorrect, is usually sufficiently 

 intelligible, except in the few comparatively early compositions which 

 the MS. comprises. The script is not difficult, except for some pages 

 which have been more or less completely obliterated. 



Volume I. 



f. 1 [55] r". 



This page is in great part illegible. It begins the legend of the 

 Invention of the True Cross, corresponding generally to that given in 

 L. Ereac 23P-232'' ; it is, however, an independent version. The 

 piece ends — 



7 cebe neach cuimneochus an croch noeinh do geobha se coaitiom (comlainius ? 

 cf . L. Br. 232^ 30) fa re mathrn- Crist don lo deidenach ' rl. 



f. 2 [56] ro b — [A]pud sanctum Dionisium et setera. 



A copy of the story edited under the name of Stair Fortihrais by 

 "Wh. Stokes in Eev. Celt., xix. 14 sq. Ends— 



cotairnic sdair Serluis Moir ag leanmliuin Coroini Cii^t ~ taisi na nocmb anntin 



f. 10 [63] ')-^ b — Rig rogab an doman feacht naill .i. Consantin mac Elena. 



Story of the healing of Constantine. Another copy from Hurl 

 5i^0 has been printed by K. Meyer in ZCP. iii. 227. Ends — 



rocumdaioh sean Consattin Pol do cathraidh risha. 



