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siastics, the dexter one vested in an episcopal, the sinister one in a 

 sacerdotal habit. Between them is the inscription, Chuistophorvs. 

 S. Abbas. S. Maeinys. S. Attianys. Pateo. m Eot. 1579." This Ger- 

 man life, with the dedication, occupies nineteen leaves. 



The second tract is a Latin version of the same life, and bears the 

 title — " Vita S. S. Marini Episcopi Hyhernohavari, Marty ris, et Aniani 

 Archidiaconi Confessoris, Fatronorum Celebris Monasterii in Rota. Fer 

 Johan. a Via Foot. Theol. conscripta, Monachii excudehat Adamus Berg. 

 Anno M. D. LXXIX.^' It has the same frontispiece as the former, 

 except that it omits the date. To this tract is appended (fol. 12 a 

 " Sermo hrevis cujusdam pii patris in Monasterio Fott ad Fr aires ibidem 

 pronunciatusP The verso of the concluding folio (15) contains the en- 

 actment of the Council of Trent, Session 25, ''De Invocatione, etc., 

 Sanctorum." 



The third tract is intituled, Officium de Sanctis Marino Episcopo et 

 Martyro, et Aniano Arcliidiacono Confessore Celebris Monasterii in Fott 

 Patronis. Jussu Feverendi in Cliristo Fatris ac Domini, D. Christo- 

 pJiori ejusdem Monasterii Abbatis vigilantissimi in ordinem redactwn, et 

 jam primum in lucem editum. Monachii excudebat Adamus Berg. Anno 

 F. M. LXXXVIII.^^ On the title-page is an engraving of a circular 

 seal, having on the field two shields, charged respectively with the 

 arms of Eott and the abbot Christopher, with the legend *^ CHrasTOPP. 

 ABBT. zv. EOTT. A^. 1588. This tract contains twenty six folios. 



The author, in his dedication to the abbot Christopher,^' expresses 

 his regret that the notices of the patrons of this monastery which were 

 scattered through the ancient annals belonging to the institution had 

 not been put together in any regular order, and that they who had been 

 set upon a candlestick to give light to all that were in the house, should, 

 through the neglect of past generations, have been kept hidden under a 

 bushel. He states that the acts of SS. Marinus and Anianus were pre- 

 served in three very ancient manuscripts, together with a sermon on the 

 same subject by a learned and pious member of the fraternity, which he 

 has annexed as a separate chapter to the Latin life. Munich, 6th of 

 April, 1579. 



The folloAving abstract of the Life contains the principal particulars 

 of their history. Having alluded to the banishment and death of Pope 

 Martin in 653, the narrative proceeds to say : — " Plorebant tunc in Hy- 

 bernia Scholse ac nunquam satis laudata literarum studia, adeo ut ex 

 Scotiaf atque Britannia multi se pii viri eo conferrent, ad capessendam 

 pietatis disciplinam. In iis quoque in omni doctrinarum genere excel- 

 lenter eruditi fuerunt duo hi sanctissimi viri, genere nobiles, ac profes- 



* Christopher Schrottl was abbot of Rott from 1576 to 1589, and died in 1595. See 

 Hundius, "Metropolis Salisburgensis," p. 274 (ed. Chr. Gewoldus, Munich, 1620). 



t The use of this term as limited to Scotland proves that the writer of the tract lived 

 subsequently to the eleventh century. 



