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YII. 



LIBRI SAIS^CTI PATRICII: 

 THE LATHS' WRITINGS OF SAIOT PATRICK. 

 Edited, with iNTEODrcTioj^", Translation, and !N^otes, 



By NEWPORT J. D. WHITE, D.D., 



Keeper of Primate Marsh's Library, Dublin, and Assistant Lecturer 

 in Divinity and Hebrew in the University of Dublin, 



[Eead November 14, 1904. Ordered for Pubheation November 16, 1904. 

 Published February 1, 1905.] 



CONTENTS. 



Preface, 201 



Introductory Matter : 



The Manuscripts and Text, 203 



Historical Materials supplied by the Latin Writings of St. Patrick, . . 220 



Biblical Text used by St. Patrick, 230 



Bibliography, 233 



Latin Text of the Confessio and Epislola, with apparatus criticus, . . . . 235 



Translation, 260 



Notes on the Text, 280 



List of Recurrent Phrases, . . . . . . . . . . . . .299 



Notes on the Biblical Quotations, . . . . . . . . . . . . 300 



Appendix on Word-forms and List of Unimportant Variants, . . . . 317 



Notes by Prof. Bury, 321 



Index of Biblical References, 322 



Index of Names of Persons and Authorities, . . . . . . . . . . 325 



PREFACE. 



The best apology for the publication of a new edition of the Latin 

 Writings of St. Patrick is the history of the printed text. With the 

 exception of Sir James Ware, and Andreas Denis the editor of the 

 Bollandist text, none of those who have printed these tracts has 

 availed himself of all the ms. evidence which he knew to be 

 extant when he wrote ; and, great as were the services to learniug 



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