Lawlor — The Cathach of St. Columba.
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O. — Oxford, Bodleian, Auct. D. 4. 6 (Psalter, Gallican. Reading, 1158-1164).
P. — Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 2 (Second Bible of Charles the Bald. Psalter Gallican. France, c. 865). I quote the rubrics from Ferrand; Liber Psalmorum cum Argumentis, Paraphrasi et Annotationibus, Luteciae Parisiorum, 1683.
Q. — Paris, Bibliothèque Nationale, lat. 4 (Bible of Le Puy. Psalter according to the Hebrew. France, cent, ix init.). I quote the rubrics from Ferrand, op. cit.
R. — Karlsruhe, Augiensis, 107 (Psalter according to the Hebrew, cent. x). I have taken the Psalm-headings from the collation in Lagarde.
S. — Paris, Bibliothèque Rationale, lat. 8824 (Anglo-Saxon Psalter, cent. xi). The entire series of psalm-headings is printed in Bright-Ramsay.
T. — British Museum, Cotton, Tiberius C. vi (Latin Psalter, Gallican. England, cent. xi).
V. — Vulgate or Gallican text of the Psalter, as printed in Heyse-Tischendorf.
Z. — British Museum, Stowe 2. (Latin Psalter, Gallican. England, cent. xi).
Σ. — St. John's College, Cambridge, C. 9. (Southampton Psalter. Irish, cent. xi).
α. — -Lost ancestor of A and R; see p. 266.
β. — Lost ancestor of A and B: see p. 275.
γ. — Lost ancestor of A and C: see p. 288.
ρ.— Lost ancestor of R and Bamberg A. 1. 14 (Quadruple Psalter, 909): see Lagarde, p. iv, and below, p. 266.
INTRODUCTION.
The Discovery of the Manuscript.
In the Library of the Royal Irish Academy, where it has been deposited since 1843,[1] there is a very remarkable cumdach, the property of E. Thomas O'Donel, Esq., D.L. It is of silver, overlaid, in some parts, with gold.[2] From an inscription on the shrine itself, and another on the case in which in later days it was enclosed, we learn something of its history. It was constructed between 1062 and 1098, at the order of Cathbarr O'Donnell, the head of the clan of which St. Columba of Iona was a member, and Domhnall mac Robartaigh, comarb of St. Columba at Kells, by Sitric, one of a family of artificers who had some connexion with the monastery of Kells. It was repaired some
- ↑ It was handed over to the Royal Dublin Society by Sir Richard O'Donel in April, 1842 (Proc. R.D.S., vol. lxxviii, Proceedings of Council, p. 66), and transferred to the Academy at the end of May, 1843 (ibid., vol. lxxix, p. 104, Proc. of Council, p. 61; Proc. R.I A., ii, 370, 403).
- ↑ For a full description, see Appendix I.
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