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The Note in the WUrzburg Codex MSS. th. f. 61

G. THE NOTE IN THE WURZBURG CODEX MSS. TH. F. 61.

This codex is a copy of S. Matthew's gospel with a commentary. The text is said by Schepss" to be in a hand of the eighth century; 5 the commentary was written in the ninth. " Auf dem 29. der eingehefteten blattchen steht folgende interessante notiz," here printed from a photograph :

Mosinu^ maccumin scriba et abbas benncuir'^ primws hebemensiuw compotem** a graeco quodam sapiente memorali^er dedicit. Deinde fo mocuoroc maccumin sernon^- quew romani doctorem totius mundi nominabant' alumnusqt^e praefati scribae in insola quss dicitur crannach duinlethglaiss^^ banc scientiaw literis fixit ne memoria labereti^r". [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6] [7]

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  1. Die altesten Evangelienhandschriften der Wiirzburger Universitatsbibliothek, Wiirzburg, 1887, and see Prof. Sanday's letter in The Academy for Sept. 1, 1888
  2. identified in the Martyrology of Tallaght, at Feb. 28, with Sillan abbot of Bangor
  3. of Bennchor, now Bangor in the co. Down
  4. i.e. compntnm
  5. perhaps Mochuaroc maccu Neth Semon, v. F^l. Oeng. Feb. 9
  6. Dr B. MacCarthy, Annals of Ulster, iv. cxxxiv, compares the ' famosum mundi magistrum ' of Antiph. Bench., supra p. 282
  7. 'the wooded (island) of Diin-leth-glaisse,' now Downpatriek. According to MacCarthy, loc. cit., Crannach is Cranny Island in the south-western arm of Strangford Lough, a few miles from Downpatriek
  8. Here in the MS. follow two lines on the Greek signs for 6, 90 and 900, epUinon being written for iirtffrifiov (stigma), cophe I cosee for K&irira and enacosse for ivaKdaioi