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selectissimam Bibliothecam (revera maximi pretii etc.) et vidisse tum 

 Catalogum ilium turn vitas ipsas latine in manuscriptis/'^ Sanctomm nos- 

 tratium, fuse narratarum, et extra Bibliothecam D. Ussheri, vidi plures 

 alios alibi in Ibernia non Catalogos tantum, sed etiam plura prolixius 

 MS*^ exemplaria Sanctorum nostratium.f Sed, quod mirabere forsan 

 (et tamen esse verum, ipse sum expertus) nullum, aut omnino vix ullius 

 momenti vel fidei etc. vidi in his MS*'", vitam Sanctorum nostratium, 

 nisi ipsorum eorundem quos nominatim et ordine Alphabetico, Tu, mi 

 E,. Pater, exprimis in Catalogo tuo, quern ad me misisti : in quo etiam 

 tuo legi nomina Sanctorum et vitas ipsorum aliquas abs me nunquam 

 visas. 



" 3° petis, ut laborem in procurando per me, per amicos etc., describi, 

 mittique ad Te Catalogum omnium et singularum Ibernise Diocesium, 

 Ecclesiarum, Sanctuariorum priscorum, etc. Eespondeo, me, quoad 

 potui, laborasse, ut Catalogus duarum Bioecesium Waterfordiensis et 

 liismorensis (in qua ista Lismorensi natus sum )^:, quern ad te mittit 

 ^mus patricius Episcopus Lismorensis et Waterfordiensis,! ad temitte- 

 retur correctior et eiD.endatior in quibusdam de quibus me consuluit idem 

 -^mus jj^ij^i panels carus et familiaris. Ac vix quidem absolveram 

 emendare nonn-^Llla menda quse irrepserant in istiim Catalogum, quando 

 coram in colloquium incideram cum Carissiino mibi et famiiiari admodum 

 R. P. Joanne Barnevailo, Provinciali Y estri Ordinis Minorum in Ibernia, 

 quern monui de Yestris ad mo m.i@sis Uteris et de Catalogis Ecclesiarum 

 etc. Tum Pater Provincialis i^ilii dixit, se sedulo et ssepe commendasse 

 curae et proourationi multoriim ex suis Esligiosis ad banc rem idoneis, 

 ut ubique per Iberniarn per se, per amicos, aliisve viis bonis, incum- 

 berent in banc rem de eclligendis Catalogis et mittendis ad Eeverentiam 

 Yestram. Quibus ego auditis, illico abjeci ulteriorem laborandi in 

 eodem opere curam tanquam minime necessariam. 



Spero me bactsiius ad ea omnia majoris momenti respondisse tuarum 

 literarum trium, qu^ mibi crearunt quantam vix verbis explicare satis 



* In the Ussher Collection in the library of Trinity College, there is a vellum MS. of 

 Latin lives of Irish Saints; E. 8, 11. The fuller and more valuable MS. in Primate 

 Marsh's Library, v. 3, 4, formerly belonged to Abp. Ussher. — See Preface to Adamnan's 

 Columba (Ir. Archseol. ar:d Celtic Soc.) p. xxvi. 



f The principal collection of Latin lives of Irish Saints, from which Colgan drew, 

 were the Codex Kilkenniensis, Codex Salmaitticensis, (now in Brussels), and the Liber 

 Insvlaz Omnium Sanctorum. To them may be added the Codex Armachanus^ from 

 which Fleming printed his lives of SS. Comgall, Mochaemhoc, and Molua. 



J His birth-place is indicated in the title of his Apologia, where he is called Clonmel- 

 liensis. Clonmel is in the diocese of Lismore. Thomas White, a Jesuit of Clonmel, 

 was the first Rector of the Irish College at Salamanca. — Karris' Ware's Works, vol. ii., 

 p. 256. 



§ Patrick Comerford, of the Order of Hermits of St. Augustin, was consecrated Bishop 

 of Waterford and Lismore, in 1029. — C. MacD, Colgan acknowledges this Prelate's 

 services in the following words: " Ut constat elencho Ecclesiarum Dioecesis Lismorensis, 

 quem nuper ad nos vir humanissimus, multiplicis eruditionis virtutumque laude clarus, 

 D. Patricius Comerford, Episcopus Lismorensis, magna industria collectum, transmisit." 

 Acta Sanctorum Hib., p. 555 a, note 2. 



