295 



presented by Dr. Wilde, and especially to Dr. Wilde for the interest ex- 

 hibited by him in promoting the objects of the Academy. 



The President informed the Academy that the articles of antiquity 

 lent to the Academy for exhibition at the Sonth Kensington Museum 

 had been returned safely, and replaced in the Museum. 



MONDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1863. 



The Yeey Eev. Chaeles Geaves, D. D., President, in the Chair. 



On the recommendation of the Council, it was — 



Eesolved, — That in acknowledgment of the very valuable donations 

 of Drawings of Antiquities and Architecture presented to the Academy 

 by Mr. G. V. Du Noyer, he be recognised as a Life Member, without the 

 payment of the usual life composition. 



The Eev. William Reeves, D.D., read the following paper : — 



On SS. Maeinus and Anianfs, two Ieish Missionaeies of the 

 Seventh Centuet. 



The Academy owes to the vigilance of its excellent Librarian the recent 

 acquisition of a volume which, independently of the value arising from 

 its great rarity, possesses the merit of introducing to notice in this coun- 

 try two Irish Missionaries, whose names have escaped our ecclesiastical 

 writers, and who, notwithstanding the deficiency of detail in their his- 

 tory, have yet a sufficient reality to render them a welcome accession to 

 our recorded list of Irish worthies. 



The volume comprises three tracts. The first bears the[title — ^^Das le- 

 hen der HeiligenS. S. Marini Bischoues Martyrers, und Aniani ArcTiidia- 

 conns, Behenners die auslrrland in Bayrn hommen^ des Gotshauses Rodt Pa- 

 tronen wordenseind. Burch Johana Vici, der IT. Schrifft Boctorn heschrie- 

 lenr^- The lower half of the title-page is occupied by an engraved plate, 

 having in the middle a shield, which bears quarterly the arms of the 

 monastery of Eot, and of Christopher the abbot, supported by two eccle- 



* There is a copy of this tract in the Library of Trin. Coll. Dabl. (Gall. NN. 10. 19) ; 

 but the frontispiece is somewhat ditferent, and is identical with that of the second tract in 

 this volume. A copy of the German life was advertised some years ago in a catalogue of 

 Thomas Thorpe, of London, marked, " extremely rare, £2 2s." 



