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XI. 



THE PAIUS MANUSCRIPT OF ST. PATRICK'S LATIN 

 WRITINGS. 



Ey 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. 



[Read June 26 : Ordered for Publication July 20 ; 

 Published September 11, 1905.] 



In a very courteous review of my edition of the Lihri S. Patricii 

 {ante, p. 201, sqq.) that has recently appeared in Ze Bulletin des 

 publications hagiographiques, Analecta Bollandiana, xxiv., p. 295, the 

 writer says : — " M. White . . . qui s'est donne la peine d'utiliser deux 

 manuscrits conserves sur le continent, en a malheureusement neglige 

 au moins deux autres, qui etaient pourtant signales depuis un certain 

 temps: le ms. lat. 17626 cle la Ribliotheque Nationale de Paris, du 

 x^ siecle. . . . et le ms. 14 d' Angers, du ix^ siecle. . . . Tons deux 

 renferment la Confessio ; je n'ai, a leur sujet, aucune autre indication 

 precise, mais vu leur age, notablement anterieur a celui de cinq des 

 temoins de M. W., il est vraisemblable qu'il y aurait eu tout profit a 

 en tenir compte." 



The Angers ms. here spoken of was published in April, 1894, by 

 M. Samuel Eerger, in the Revue Celtique, xv. 155, and has been 

 reprinted elsewhere, e.g., in The Irish Liher Hymnorum. It is entitled 

 in the ms. Confessio Sancti Patricii Episcopi, and is a penitential piece 

 beginning, *'Deus, Deus mens, rex omnipotens, ego humiliter te 

 adoro." This document, whatever its origin, has no connexion what- 

 ever with St. Patrick of Armagh. 



The Paris ms., however, is one my ignorance of which is inex- 

 cusable, as it was catalogued by the Bollandist Fathers in 1893, in the 

 third volume of their Catalogus codd. llagiographiconm Lat, . . . qui 

 asservantur in Bill. Nat. Paris. Immediately on receipt of the review 

 I instituted inquiries, and obtained from Berthaud Freres, of Paris, as 



