Book 0/ Durrotc : Trin. Coll., Dublin, A. 4. 6. Gospels (vi- vii) ; according to an inscription on what was the lost page, the lKX)k was written by St. Columba in twelve days, but, as with the Echteriiach Gospels (see below in this column), this, witii the rest of the book, must have been copied from an earlier exemplar; Durrow or Dearmag was a monastery- in King's County, founded by Columba. Irish text, i.e. good Vulgate at bottom, but with some of the characteristic national interiiola- tions ; collation given by Dr. Abbott in his edition of the Codex Usserianus ; see also Berger, p. 41. Wordsworth's durmach.
The Book 0/ Moling or Mxdling ; Trin. Coll., Dublin. Gospels (viii or ix), apparently never bound, but preserved in a case. An inscription gives the name of the scribe as Mulling, i.e. probably St. Mulling, bp. of Ferns, at the end of the 7th cent. ; but, as with the Book of Durrow, the inscription must have been copied from an earlier MS. Characteristic Irish text, sometimes with interesting variant readings ; see Berger, p. 33, and H. J. Lawlor, Chapti:rs on the Book of Mulling, Edinburgh, 1897. The MS is disfigured by damp, and is illegible in parts.
Tlu Stotce St. John : bound up with the famous Stou}e Missal, Royal Irish Academy, Dublin. Written in pointed Irish minus- cules [viii or ix) ; portions of the Gospel only. Good Vulgate text with the usual traces of Old Latin mixture; see J. U. Bernard in Transactions o/ the Huijal Irish Academy, vol. xxx. pt. viii. (Dublin, 1893), who gives a description and collation of the MS ; also Berger, p. 42.
Goxpels of Macduman : Lambeth Palace Librarj*. Written by the scribe Maiielbrith Mac-Durnain [ix-x], delicate and rather cramped Irish writing ; Irish text.
LichQeld, Chapter Library. Gospels (vii-viii], traditionally ascribed to St. Chad, bp. of Lichfield. The MS was perhaps written in Wales, but is in an Irish hand ; it belonged to the Church of St. Teliaii at IJaiidaff, but was brought to Lichfield towards the end of the loth cent. The writing and ornamenta- tion are very beautiful, and resemble the Book of Kelts ; Irish text, possibly corrected occasionally from the Greek. Contains Mt li-Lk 39; collation of the MS, with introduction, etc., by Scrivener, Codex S. Veaddce Latinus, Cambridge, 18S7 ; see also Bradshaw, Collected Papers, pp. 468-461 (Cambr. 1SS9). Words- worth's L in Gospels.
Cambridge, University Librarj-, Kk i. 24 ; Luke and John, nearly complete (vii-viii), half uncial Irish hand, somewhat resembling the Book of Kells or the Gospels of St. Chad In the first s chs. of St. Luke the text is a strange medley of Vulgate and Old Latin ; for the rest, the text is Vulgate with occasional Old Lat. readings.
.Scldcn Acts: Oxford, Bodl. 3418 (Seld. SO). Saxon MS [viii], valuable text. Wordsworth's O in Acts.
Itushworth Gospels or Gospels of MacRegol : Oxford, Bodl. Auct. D. 2. 19 (ix), written by an Irish scribe, who died a.d. 82U ; has an interlinear Anglo-Saxon version. Irish text, with constant inversions of order in words, especially in St. JIatthew ; possibly, too, corrected from the Greek. Collation given by W. W. Skeat in The Uoxjiel of St. Matthew : A . .*'. ond Northum- brian versions, Cambr. 1HS7. Wordsworth's U in Gospels.
Brit. JIus., Egerton 609. Gospels (ix), formerly belonging to the monastery of .Mannoutier (Slajus Monasterium), near Tours. It is an interesting siieciinen, however, of a MS, written abroad In ordinary Caroline minuscule, but with Jrish ornamentation, and with a regular Irish type of text ; see Berger, p. 47. It contains a number of variant rewliiigs which seem peculiar to the JIS. Tischendorf's mm ; Wordsworth's E. This MS serves as an introduction to our next class of MSS.
IV. CONTISE.NTAI- MSS, WRirfKN BV iRlSU OH SaXON SCKIBIS,
AND Hiiowm.t A Mixture ok tub two Tvpks ok TKXJ.—Gospelt of St. Gatien, Paris, Bibl. Nat., Souv.acq. Lat. 1687 (viii), Anglo- Saxon band, but probably written on the Continent; boloiged to St. Gatien'8 at lours. The text contains a number of Old Lat. readings ; in other respects resembles the Egerton MS. Usually ciU'd as gat ; Berger, p. 46.
The Kchlemach Gosjiels: Paris, Bibl. Nat. 9389 (probobly viii), vi-ritten in on Irish hand, and belonging formerly to the Benedictine Abbey of St. Willibrord at Echternach ; yet an interesting inscription, obviously taken from the exemplar from which the -MS was copied, asserts that the scribe corrected the text from a MS, "de bibliothcca EuL'ipi pnespiteri quern ferunt fulsso sancti Ilieronimi.' The F^ugippius here referred to was almost certainly the Abbot of Lucullanum, near Naples, In the early part of the 6th cent. The text, however, which has a series of variant readings noted in the margin, is (tlsappointing; neither the first hand nor the corrector seems to display a con. sistent text ; and we have a strange mixture of good Vulgate,
88S
VULGATE
VULGATE
Continental, and Irish types ; see Berber, p. 62. Wordsworth quotes it regularly.
Codex Bujotianus : Paris, Bibl. Nat.,Lat. 281 and 293. Gospels [viii], formerly a> Ftl-camp, just above Havre, and tbereiore directly facinfj the Enjjlish coast. The text and the hand- writing are what mij^ht be expected from its position ; it is written in a line uncial hand, but the oruanientation shows traces of Briii^h iriHucnce ; and tlie text is a good example of the mixture of Continental and British types that would be produced by an Irish scribe writing; in a French monastery ; Bee Berber, p. 50. Wordsworth's B in Gospels.