468
NOTES AND QUERIES. tii s. XL J E 19, im.
The following is a list of all that occur :
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On diabsalma, i.e., diapsalma, cf. K.
Meyer ('Hibernica Minora, Oxford, 1894,
pp. 89, 96). This capricious suspension may
be seen on ff. 2a, 16b, 17a, 18b, 19ab, 21a,
<fec. Moran's note (Atlantis, ix. p. 74) is
curious :
" In the margin is written theAvord diabolus [!], probably meaning that the sacred text here figuratively portrayed the triumph of Cnrist over Satan."
Comment is needless.
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Our MS. would appear to be the earliest
Irish Psalter in existence, for the so-called
Psalter of St. Salaberga, once believed to
have been written in Ireland in the seventh
century, is now held to be not earlier than
the eighth and to be of Northumbrian origin
(New Pal. Soc., Second Series, 1914, plates
33-35). As for the ' Psalter of St. Caim'n,'
I have shown (Proc. R. Irish Acad., 32, C. 5,
1913) that it dates from the end of the
eleventh or the early twelfth century,
M. ESPOSITO.
NOTES ON STATUES AT THE ROYAL EXCHANGE.
(See 2 S. xi. 47; 3 S. i. 267; 7 S. v. 7, 51, 145; 8 S. v. 407, 470; vi. 92, 138, 249, 333; ix. 213 ; 9 S. ii. 65, 198 ; viii. 202; 10 S. x. 491 ; 11 S. ii. 322, 371, 454, 508; iii. 187, 230, 241, 315, 385, 429, 473; iv. 138, 176, 499; vi. 398; ix. 219; x. 168, 347.)
FIRST ROYAL EXCHANGE.
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