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XI.

THE CATHACH OF ST. COLUMBA.

By REV. H. J. LAWLOR, D.D, Litt.D.

Plates XXXIII-XXXVIII.

Read January 10. Published September 4, 1916.

CONTENTS.
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Principal Authorities, 241 The Text of the Psalter, 332
Introduction — Appendices —
The Discovery of the Manuscript, 243 I. The Shrine of the Cathach, 390
Description, 245 II. Palaeographical Notes,
Orthography, 253 1. The Script of the Cathach, 397
The Text, 256 2. The Colophon of the Burrow Book, 403
The Rubrics, 265
The Date of the Manuscript, 291 III. The Tract "De Causa Peregrinationis S. Columbae," 408
The Battle of Cul Dremhne, 292
St. Finnian's Book, 307 IV. Psalm Headings, 413
Conclusion, 329 Index, 437

PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES.

Adamnan. — Adamnani Vita Sancti Columbae. See Reeves.

Berger — Histoire de la Vulgate pendant les premiers siècles du Moyen Age, par Samuel Berger, Paris, 1893.

Bright-Ramsay. — Liber Psalmorum. The West-Saxon Psalms; being the prose portion, or the "first fifty" of the so-called Paris Psalter, ed. J. W. Wright and E. L. Eamsay, Boston and London, 1907.

Cod. Sal. — Acta Sanctorum Hiberniae ex Codice Salmanticensi, ed. C. de Smedt et J. de Backer, Edinburgh, 1888.

Colgan. — Acta Sanctorum veteris et maioris Scotiae sen Hiberniae, vol. i, 1645, vol. ii (Triadis Thaumaturgae . . . Acta), 1647, ed. Joannes Colganus.

Heyse-Tischendorf. — Biblia Sacra Latina Veteris Testamenti, ed. T. Heyse et C. de Tischendorf, Lipsiae, 1873.

Keating. — The History of Ireland by Geoffrey Keating, D.D., ed. D. Comyn and P. S. Dinneen (Irish Texts Society), London, 1902-1914.

Lagarde. — Psalterium iuxta Hebraeos Hieronymi, ed. P. de Lagarde, Lipsiae 1874.
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