Published
at London, a.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v1
in 4to, A.
D.
1 794.
^ Our authority is
9° A long range of rooms preserves those books and manuscripts, which were brought together within the last forty years. In 95-
July, 1863, when visited by the writer, an additional suite of chambers was in course
to receive books not then
printed
enumerated, without reference to subject.
of
preparation, placed.
9S This is the second volume, and a
"
Ca-
9' In the Bollandist Library, there is a Vast collection of Biblical, Patristic, Theo-
talogue Methodique," according to a de- partmental arrangement.
Cxi INTRODUCTION.
also to the old Bollandists. 9^ The Irish manuscripts have been pretty ac- curately noticed by Mr. Bindon, and the Rev. Dr. Todd reproduced his
account,97inastatementplacedbeforetheRoyalIrishAcaderay. 5* Manyof those codices have been already —noticed in preceding, and shall be referred to in following, pages. Cadouin. In France, Cadouin was an ancient abbey, belonging to the diocese of Perigueux, and it contained some interesting
99 It is now a canton and commune of in the — manuscripts. France, depart-
ment of the Dordogne, and in the arrondissement of Bergerac. *°° Caen.
In this ancient city of Normandy, '°' it would seem, that manuscripts likely
to be of interest to the Irish historiographer are preserved in the public
^°* library.
'°3 in —
but
to have increased to 40,000 volumes. '"^ Cambrai. This French city has an interesting collection of MSS. in the public library. Among these are some Irish canons. '°5 It is likely enough, various other manuscripts have perished in the wTreck of more than twenty convents and religious e—difices here during the French Revolution. '°^ Carlsruhe or Carlsrouhe. This capitalcityofBadenhasapubliclibrary,containing90,000volumes. ^°7 There are said to be manuscripts, written by Irish monks, and with Irish glosses, in it. ^°^ Cologne. —This celebrated city, on the right bank of the Rhine, has several good libraries, containing a great many manuscripts. '°9 In the archives of the great cathedral, at Cologne, are various MSS. "° These serve
This contained
25,000 volumes,
1854,
since,
it
appears
s* Others seem, from various entries, to have been formerly the property of several monastic libraries.
97 At a meeting of the Royal Irish Aca- demy, held on the 24th of May, 1847.
Irish
1804," vol. ii. , letter Ixxxvii. pp. 367 to 371.
'"See Rev. T. F. Dibdin's "Biographi-
cal, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany," vol. i. Letter xiv. ,
Con-
'<>< See "Handbook for Travel- Murray's
lers in France. " Route 25, p. 75.
"5 See " et Glay's Catalogue Descriptif
Raisonne des Manuscrits de la Bibliothe- simile illustrations, etc. " By Samuel H. ques de Cambrai," published at Cambrai,
Bindon, pp. i to 32. Dublin : mdcccxlvii. A. D. 183 1, in 8vo.
9^ See " of the Proceedings
pp. 324 to 340. X03 See " The
Royal
Academy," vol. iii. , pp. 477 to 502. This ducted by Charles Knight. Geography,
English Cyclopaedia. " valuable paper has been published in a vol. ii. , col. 213.
under the ** Some No- title,
separate form,
tices of Manuscripts relating to Ireland, in
now to be found in the
various
Burgundian Library, at Brussels, with fac-
these
belonging
to convents and
abbeys,
to 60. And "
Supplement to Appendix
languages,
8vo.
» See M. Martial
" Essai sur les
'<^ Not a vestige of Fenelon's tomb, nor
even the church which contained was in it,
existence, at the beginning of the present
Delpit's
anciens Pelerinages a Jerusalem. " It con-
tained some texts of Sanctis. "
' ' De Locis
Forbes' ' ' from Letters
Adamnan,
See
France, written in the years 1803 and 1804," vol. i. , Letter xxi. , p. 220.
'""See "Gazetteer of the World," vol. iii. , p. 152.
"'
contained fourteen parish churches, besides
century.
James
"^7 See "Gazetteer of the World," vol. Before the French Revolution, Caen iii. , p. 319.
but the number was — reduced in the greatly
into a lyceum. See James Forbes' " Letters "° See "Catalogus Historicus Criticus from Fiance, written in the years 1803 to Codicum MSS. Bibliotheca? Ecclesiae Me-
beginning of this century
'°9 See
the fine Bene-
dictine abbey there having been converted paidia. " Geography, vol. ii. , col. 534.
"^ See Cooper's "Appendix A," pp. 58
A," pp. 9,
lo.
Charles Knight's "English Cyclo-
Murray's
" Handbook for Travel-
UndecimMilliumVirginumColon, printed A. D. 1507. No. 815. Vita S. Brendani, Vita S. Fursaji. The librarian
'" See
lers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland. " Route I, p. 37.
obliging
kindly informed me, that if, at any future
"* Sir Thomas " Phillipps' Catalogus
time, I found it necessary to apply for tran- scripts from the Douai Manuscripts, or fur- ther information regarding them, he should be happy to furnish whatever might be re- quired. A hurried visit did not afford time for proper examination.
"® "
See Murray's Handbook for Travel-
lers in France. " Route 8. I, p.
"9 The Irish Franciscans had a house in
Douai, which perished during the French Revolution, and the writer was shown that place, where stood the old Irish College, now destroyed. The site was occupied by a fine French mansion.
'=° Sir Charles " Cyclo- Knight's English
paedia. " Geography. Vol. ii. , col. 803. '^' Ebert's "Geschichte und Beschrei* bung der Koniglichen offentlichen Biblio- thek zu Dresden," or History and Descrip- tion of the Royal Public Library at Dres- den. Published at Leipzig, A. D. 1822, in
8vo shape.
Bi- bliothecse Monasterii Corbeiensis, Codex
Sseculi XI. "
"7 In July, 1863, the author visited this
library, when the young and learned Pere
De Haisnes, College de S. Jean, was libra- rian. At that time, a new division of the
was in and the
library progress, manuscripts
were carefully stowed in boxes, so that no
access to them was practicable. However, the courteous librarian directed my atten- tion to notices of Irish hagiographical manuscripts in the catalogue, of which I took the following notes : No. 792. Lives of St. Livinus, St. Columban, and St. Co-
tNTROD UCTtON. cxli
to throw some light on Irish ecclesiastical affairs. "^ Copenhagen. —The Royal Library at Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, contains about
400,000 volumes, and a valuable collection of 15,000 manuscripts. Among them are many Icelandic ones, written in the Runic character. These are now in course of publication, and they must serve greatly to illustrate Scan- dinavian history and literature, as also the ancient state of Iceland and of Greenland. '" HughWardmentions,"3thatheheardofaquantityofIrish manuscripts, in the King of Denmark's library', that they were brought
from Ireland 800
facts from eye-witnesses. Correy or Corbie. In the Department of the Somme and arrondissement of Amiens"^ is the town of Corbie, in France. It contained MSS. of great interest, as appears from a catalogue privately printed. "^ Douai. —Thisoldcity,inthenorthofFrance,hasafinepublic library, containing 30,000 volumes. "^ It has a large collection of manu- scripts,"^ and among them are a few, embracing Acts of our Irish Saints. During the fury of the French Revolution, several books and manuscripts, belongingtoreligioushouseshere,wereburned. Someweredestroyed,or havedisappeared. "9 Theremnantisnowpreservedinthepubliclibrary. Dresden. —The Royal Public Library at Dresden contains 300,000 printed
volumes, 3,000 manuscripts, above 150,000 pamphlets, and 20,000 maps. "° It is not without some hagiographical materials for the Irish writer. "'
before the time he — and that he learned such years wrote,"4
t ropolitanae Coloniensis. " Printed at Cologne, A. D. 1752, in 4to shape.
"' See Cooper's "Appendix A," pp. 62 to 65, and "Supplement to Appendix A," pp. II, 12.
"3 See " Sancti Rumoldi Vita," pp. 272,
317-
"* In the earlier part of the seventeenth
century.
"5 See "Gazetteer of the World," vol.
iv. , p. 671.
lumba. No. 793. Life of Blessed Ethbin.
No. 804. Life of St. Columban, Abbot, and
with this manuscript is bound " Historia "
cxlli INTROD UCTION.
Eberach. —Eberach is a town of Baden, in the circle of the Lower Rhine. "' Its library"3 contains many interesting old manuscripts. "+ Epternac. —
There are very rare codices preserved in the Monastery of Eptemac. "5 Here there is a priceless and very ancient Martyrology, which has been con- jectured to contain the handwriting of St. Willibrord himself. As we have already seen, this codex was probably brought from Ireland, and, it is sup- posed to be the only copy exta—nt of that old Martyrology, ascribed to Eusebius and Jerome. "^ Erlangen. The library annexed to the University here has 100,000 volumes on its shelves. "7 It also possesses a collection of manuscripts, which deserves attention from Irish students. "^ Its catalogue isaninterestingone. "9 Fischingen. —ThereisacuriousaccountofFisch- ingen, in Switzerland, having had a colony of Christians settled at that place, in the second century. '^o Florence. —The city of Florence—founded by the ancient Romans'31—is especially rich in the possession of great public and various private libraries. The chief public library is a noble one,'^* and thereligiousorderswerenotwithouttheirownvaluablerecords. ^33 Several
most valuable historical manuscripts are here preserved. '34 From the learned Maurist Benedictine Father D. Bernard de Montfaucon's enumeration, we learn, that some of these should interest the Irish ecclesiologist. '35 a more modern account of the artistic and literary treasures at Florence is that con-
'=" See " Gazetteer of the World," vol. v. ,
p. 130.
"3 See De Blainville's ** Travels through
"
Holland,Germany,SwitzerlandandItaly.
Published at London, a. d. 1757, in three
volumes, 4to.
'= Among these is " Vita S. Burkhardi, "
Episcopi Herbipolensis.
zu Erlangen befinden," or Description of the Diplomatic Manuscripts which are found
in the Royal University Library of Erlangen. Published at Erlangen, A. D. 1829, in 8vo.
there, at an early age, but are
they thought
to have perished. See Gerbertus "Iter Alemannicum," p. 79.
'3' See Leonardi Aretini, " Historiarum Florentinarum," libri xii. , lib. i. , p. i.
'*
Origin and Progress of Writing," Introduction, p. xvii.
'33 The Laurentian Library is said to have almost equalled the Vatican in the number of its manuscripts. See Rev. John Chet- wode Eustace's " Classical Tour through
An. mdcccii. , vol. iii. , ix. , Italy," chap,
PP- 352, 353-
'34 See " Handbook for Travel- Murray's
lers in Northern Italy," Part ii. . Route 59,
pp. 609 to 61 1.
'35 See •' Diarium Italicum, sive Monu-
"5 See " Clavis Baringii,
Diplomatica," pp. 254, 255. Published at Hanover, A. D.
1 754, in 4to shape.
"* The " Martyrologium S. Hieronymi"
—as usually styled—is an interesting old calendar of Saints, and this codex be- longed to St. "Willibrord. Many think he was the transcriber. See "Voyage Litte- raire de deux Religieux Benedictins de la Congregation de St. Maur," tome ii. ,
'3' See Astle's
297, 298.
"^ See Charles
"
clopaedia. " Geography. Vol. ii. , col. 930.
"* See Nicolai's "
Beschreibung
einer
Knight's
English Cy-
Reise durch Deutschland und die Schweitz
im Jahre 1787," or Description of a Journey
through Germany and Switzerland in the year 1787.
pp.
mentorum Veterum, Bibliothecarum, Musa:- '''See Irmischer's "Diplomatische Be- orum," &c. , cap. xxv. , pp. 362 to 375. schreibung der Manuscripte, welche sich Parisiis, A. D. 1 703. With Plans and Fi-
in dcr Koniglichen Universitats-Bibliothek gures.
'3° See " Cooper's
Appendix A," p. 75, and " Supplement to Appendix A," p. 18. Scottish MSS. were formerly preserved
and " 16, 17.
Supplement
to
Appendix A," pp.
lished at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, a. d. 1727, in folio.
'•^See Lomierus, " De Bibliothecis. " Also Maderus, "Libelli et Conimenta- tiones de Bibliothecis atque Archivis," ac- cessio altera, p. 115 ; see also p. 206. "Na- chrichten von der aus lauter
76,
"" See Struvius, Bibl. Hist. Lit. , p. 443,
and " Lectiones tomus Canisius, Antiquae,"
i. , p. 769. Also Cooper's "Appendix A," p. 18.
'^^ See Pezius, "Disertatio Isagogica," xxvi. Likewise, " Nachrichten von einigen alten Handschriften der ehemaligen
ehemaligen Handschriften bestandenen Bibliothek in
p.
Freysinger Stifts-Bibliothek.
Cooper's "
Appendix
pp. 77,
* ' zur Geshichte und Li- Aretin, Beytrage
teratur," Band or volume vii. , pp. 227 to 2^9, likewise 509 to 534.
"t9 See Isaac " of the Spon's History
"
Also, Von
INTRODUCTION. cxliii
tained in the work of Lady Morgan/36 Frankfort-on-the-Main. —This
fine commercial and prosperous German city, '3? Frankfort-on-the-Main, has a
pubUcUbrary. Awealthycitizen,MonsieurdeUffenbach,hadcollectedthere
a great number of manuscripts. ^^s Many of these belonged to St. Gall, and
they were saved by him after the pillage of that place. In the early part of
lastcentury,acatalogueofthepubliclibraryherewaspubHshed. *39 Several
of interest for the Irish manuscripts —great
are Freysingen. The Bavarian city of Freysingen has a public library. It contains several valuable books, with — ">! and some
nearly 300 manuscripts,
of them are almost 1,000 years old. ^42 Fulda. This fair city'43 has many interesting associations, ^-^^ in connexion with some of our celebrated Irish Saints. '^'s Fulda is exceeding rich in the possession of curious and ancient records. '*^ There, Irish and British writers have left some MSS. , written by them, as known by dates and names, thereto affixed. ^47 Among these MSS. is a Book of the Four Gospels, said to have been t—raced by the hand ofSt. Boniface,andinverysmallcharacters. '^ Geneva. Thisdelightfully situated Swiss city dates back to a time antecedent to Caesar's, '49 for it is alluded to as a place of consequence in his Commentaries. Geneva has a fine public library, founded by the celebrated Bonnivard. '5° It contains
'3* See
vol. ii. ,
xv. , xvi. ,
'*3 See Philippus Ferrarius, "Novum Lex-
icon Geographicum," tomus i. , p. 303. Michael Antonius Baudrand's edition.
interesting work, Fuldensium Antiquitatum Libri IHI. ," auctore R. P. Christoforo Brovvero, Socie-
tatis Jesu Presbytero, published at Antwerp, A. D. 161 2, gives a detailed account of this ancient German city.
'^s See Serarius, "Res Moguntiacse. " Mayence, a. d. 1604, 4to.
"
'**See Schannatt,
two volumes folio, published at Leipzig and
"Italy," pp, I to 72.
chap,
'37 See Philippus Ferrarius "Novum
Lexicon Geographicum," tomus i. , p.
299.
'38 See " Bibliotheca Uffenbachiana
MSSta. seu Catalogus et Recensio MSS- tonim qui in Bibliotheca Z. C. ab Uffenbach Trajecti ad Maenum adservantur. " Pub- lished at Halle, A. D. 1 720, in folio. Later still was produced, "Catalogus Manuscrip- torum Codicum Bibliothecae Uffenbachi- anse. " Published at Frankfort, a. d. 1747, in 8vo.
'39 See Lucius, "Catalogus Bibliothecae Publicae Mseno-Frankafurtensis. " Frankfort, A. D. 1728, in 4to.
'4° See Cooper's "Appendix A," pp. 75,
"
'** A very rare and
"
DioecesisetHierarchiaFuldensis. " Pub-
Fulda. " in i2mo. '^^ See
78, and 18, 19-
Published "
at Leipzig,
A. D. 181 2,'
hagiographist
preserved. ^<°
Vindemise Literariffi," Fulda, a. d. 1723. Also, Schannatt,
A," Supplement to Appendix A," pp.
City 'S'See William Coxe's "Travels in
and State of Geneva," book i. , p. 3.
Cxliv INTROBUCTION.
40,000 printed volumes, and very valuable MSS. ,'S' to the number of about
5,000,^53 torians. *S3
Among — GoTHA.
some,
In central
in its
the town of Gotha which contains
some 150,000 printed
sons," vol. ii. , Letter 63, p. 334.
'S'See the Librarian Senebier's "Cata-
dans la Bibliotheque de la Ville et Repub- lique de Geneve. " Published at Geneva, A. D. 1779, in 8vo.
'3' See M. Valery's "Voyages Histo- riques, Litteraires, et Artistiques en Italic, Guide Raisonne, et Complet du Voyageur et de 1' Artiste," tome i. , liv. i. , chap, vii. , p. n.
'S3 See Cooper's "Appendix A," pp. 97 "
''°
Afterwards the philologist, J. G. Grae-
these are
which have a value for- Irish his- special
Germany,
public library,*ss —
possesses
interesting codices,'54
volumes,^56 and 5,000 manuscripts. ^S7 Hamburg. theRiverElbe—wastheseatofaCatholicArchiepiscopalSee. Itformerly abounded with abbeys, nunneries and other charitable foundations. 'ss
Hamburg contains a great number of libraries, both public and private ;
while the wealth, public spirit and education, prevailing among its citizens, have tended to amass those rare codices, so prized by the leamed. '59 Several of these have a special interest, as they abound in Acts of our Irish Saints. Heidelburg. —Situated on the River Neckar, it had a rich library before1622,whenthiscitywastakenbytheSpaniards. ^^ Thebooksand manuscripts were dispersed •}^^ a part was taken to Vienna, and a part to theVaticanatRome. *^^ SomemattersofinterestfortheIrishhagiographer arekeptatHeidelburg. ^^3 Heiligenskreutz,ortheHolyCross. —Avery considerable collection of old manuscripts was preserved here,^^* and some of these were interesting in an Irish ecclesiastical sense. '^^ The old Cistercian Monastery of the place was founded a. d. 1134. ^^ Heilsbronn. —In this city of Wurtemberg, some manuscripts on Irish hagiological matters are to
Switzerland and in the Country of the Gri-
'59 See Cooper's
"
to 121, and logue raisonne des Manuscrits conserves manuscripts.
^ Our authority is
9° A long range of rooms preserves those books and manuscripts, which were brought together within the last forty years. In 95-
July, 1863, when visited by the writer, an additional suite of chambers was in course
to receive books not then
printed
enumerated, without reference to subject.
of
preparation, placed.
9S This is the second volume, and a
"
Ca-
9' In the Bollandist Library, there is a Vast collection of Biblical, Patristic, Theo-
talogue Methodique," according to a de- partmental arrangement.
Cxi INTRODUCTION.
also to the old Bollandists. 9^ The Irish manuscripts have been pretty ac- curately noticed by Mr. Bindon, and the Rev. Dr. Todd reproduced his
account,97inastatementplacedbeforetheRoyalIrishAcaderay. 5* Manyof those codices have been already —noticed in preceding, and shall be referred to in following, pages. Cadouin. In France, Cadouin was an ancient abbey, belonging to the diocese of Perigueux, and it contained some interesting
99 It is now a canton and commune of in the — manuscripts. France, depart-
ment of the Dordogne, and in the arrondissement of Bergerac. *°° Caen.
In this ancient city of Normandy, '°' it would seem, that manuscripts likely
to be of interest to the Irish historiographer are preserved in the public
^°* library.
'°3 in —
but
to have increased to 40,000 volumes. '"^ Cambrai. This French city has an interesting collection of MSS. in the public library. Among these are some Irish canons. '°5 It is likely enough, various other manuscripts have perished in the wTreck of more than twenty convents and religious e—difices here during the French Revolution. '°^ Carlsruhe or Carlsrouhe. This capitalcityofBadenhasapubliclibrary,containing90,000volumes. ^°7 There are said to be manuscripts, written by Irish monks, and with Irish glosses, in it. ^°^ Cologne. —This celebrated city, on the right bank of the Rhine, has several good libraries, containing a great many manuscripts. '°9 In the archives of the great cathedral, at Cologne, are various MSS. "° These serve
This contained
25,000 volumes,
1854,
since,
it
appears
s* Others seem, from various entries, to have been formerly the property of several monastic libraries.
97 At a meeting of the Royal Irish Aca- demy, held on the 24th of May, 1847.
Irish
1804," vol. ii. , letter Ixxxvii. pp. 367 to 371.
'"See Rev. T. F. Dibdin's "Biographi-
cal, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany," vol. i. Letter xiv. ,
Con-
'<>< See "Handbook for Travel- Murray's
lers in France. " Route 25, p. 75.
"5 See " et Glay's Catalogue Descriptif
Raisonne des Manuscrits de la Bibliothe- simile illustrations, etc. " By Samuel H. ques de Cambrai," published at Cambrai,
Bindon, pp. i to 32. Dublin : mdcccxlvii. A. D. 183 1, in 8vo.
9^ See " of the Proceedings
pp. 324 to 340. X03 See " The
Royal
Academy," vol. iii. , pp. 477 to 502. This ducted by Charles Knight. Geography,
English Cyclopaedia. " valuable paper has been published in a vol. ii. , col. 213.
under the ** Some No- title,
separate form,
tices of Manuscripts relating to Ireland, in
now to be found in the
various
Burgundian Library, at Brussels, with fac-
these
belonging
to convents and
abbeys,
to 60. And "
Supplement to Appendix
languages,
8vo.
» See M. Martial
" Essai sur les
'<^ Not a vestige of Fenelon's tomb, nor
even the church which contained was in it,
existence, at the beginning of the present
Delpit's
anciens Pelerinages a Jerusalem. " It con-
tained some texts of Sanctis. "
' ' De Locis
Forbes' ' ' from Letters
Adamnan,
See
France, written in the years 1803 and 1804," vol. i. , Letter xxi. , p. 220.
'""See "Gazetteer of the World," vol. iii. , p. 152.
"'
contained fourteen parish churches, besides
century.
James
"^7 See "Gazetteer of the World," vol. Before the French Revolution, Caen iii. , p. 319.
but the number was — reduced in the greatly
into a lyceum. See James Forbes' " Letters "° See "Catalogus Historicus Criticus from Fiance, written in the years 1803 to Codicum MSS. Bibliotheca? Ecclesiae Me-
beginning of this century
'°9 See
the fine Bene-
dictine abbey there having been converted paidia. " Geography, vol. ii. , col. 534.
"^ See Cooper's "Appendix A," pp. 58
A," pp. 9,
lo.
Charles Knight's "English Cyclo-
Murray's
" Handbook for Travel-
UndecimMilliumVirginumColon, printed A. D. 1507. No. 815. Vita S. Brendani, Vita S. Fursaji. The librarian
'" See
lers in Denmark, Norway, Sweden and Iceland. " Route I, p. 37.
obliging
kindly informed me, that if, at any future
"* Sir Thomas " Phillipps' Catalogus
time, I found it necessary to apply for tran- scripts from the Douai Manuscripts, or fur- ther information regarding them, he should be happy to furnish whatever might be re- quired. A hurried visit did not afford time for proper examination.
"® "
See Murray's Handbook for Travel-
lers in France. " Route 8. I, p.
"9 The Irish Franciscans had a house in
Douai, which perished during the French Revolution, and the writer was shown that place, where stood the old Irish College, now destroyed. The site was occupied by a fine French mansion.
'=° Sir Charles " Cyclo- Knight's English
paedia. " Geography. Vol. ii. , col. 803. '^' Ebert's "Geschichte und Beschrei* bung der Koniglichen offentlichen Biblio- thek zu Dresden," or History and Descrip- tion of the Royal Public Library at Dres- den. Published at Leipzig, A. D. 1822, in
8vo shape.
Bi- bliothecse Monasterii Corbeiensis, Codex
Sseculi XI. "
"7 In July, 1863, the author visited this
library, when the young and learned Pere
De Haisnes, College de S. Jean, was libra- rian. At that time, a new division of the
was in and the
library progress, manuscripts
were carefully stowed in boxes, so that no
access to them was practicable. However, the courteous librarian directed my atten- tion to notices of Irish hagiographical manuscripts in the catalogue, of which I took the following notes : No. 792. Lives of St. Livinus, St. Columban, and St. Co-
tNTROD UCTtON. cxli
to throw some light on Irish ecclesiastical affairs. "^ Copenhagen. —The Royal Library at Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, contains about
400,000 volumes, and a valuable collection of 15,000 manuscripts. Among them are many Icelandic ones, written in the Runic character. These are now in course of publication, and they must serve greatly to illustrate Scan- dinavian history and literature, as also the ancient state of Iceland and of Greenland. '" HughWardmentions,"3thatheheardofaquantityofIrish manuscripts, in the King of Denmark's library', that they were brought
from Ireland 800
facts from eye-witnesses. Correy or Corbie. In the Department of the Somme and arrondissement of Amiens"^ is the town of Corbie, in France. It contained MSS. of great interest, as appears from a catalogue privately printed. "^ Douai. —Thisoldcity,inthenorthofFrance,hasafinepublic library, containing 30,000 volumes. "^ It has a large collection of manu- scripts,"^ and among them are a few, embracing Acts of our Irish Saints. During the fury of the French Revolution, several books and manuscripts, belongingtoreligioushouseshere,wereburned. Someweredestroyed,or havedisappeared. "9 Theremnantisnowpreservedinthepubliclibrary. Dresden. —The Royal Public Library at Dresden contains 300,000 printed
volumes, 3,000 manuscripts, above 150,000 pamphlets, and 20,000 maps. "° It is not without some hagiographical materials for the Irish writer. "'
before the time he — and that he learned such years wrote,"4
t ropolitanae Coloniensis. " Printed at Cologne, A. D. 1752, in 4to shape.
"' See Cooper's "Appendix A," pp. 62 to 65, and "Supplement to Appendix A," pp. II, 12.
"3 See " Sancti Rumoldi Vita," pp. 272,
317-
"* In the earlier part of the seventeenth
century.
"5 See "Gazetteer of the World," vol.
iv. , p. 671.
lumba. No. 793. Life of Blessed Ethbin.
No. 804. Life of St. Columban, Abbot, and
with this manuscript is bound " Historia "
cxlli INTROD UCTION.
Eberach. —Eberach is a town of Baden, in the circle of the Lower Rhine. "' Its library"3 contains many interesting old manuscripts. "+ Epternac. —
There are very rare codices preserved in the Monastery of Eptemac. "5 Here there is a priceless and very ancient Martyrology, which has been con- jectured to contain the handwriting of St. Willibrord himself. As we have already seen, this codex was probably brought from Ireland, and, it is sup- posed to be the only copy exta—nt of that old Martyrology, ascribed to Eusebius and Jerome. "^ Erlangen. The library annexed to the University here has 100,000 volumes on its shelves. "7 It also possesses a collection of manuscripts, which deserves attention from Irish students. "^ Its catalogue isaninterestingone. "9 Fischingen. —ThereisacuriousaccountofFisch- ingen, in Switzerland, having had a colony of Christians settled at that place, in the second century. '^o Florence. —The city of Florence—founded by the ancient Romans'31—is especially rich in the possession of great public and various private libraries. The chief public library is a noble one,'^* and thereligiousorderswerenotwithouttheirownvaluablerecords. ^33 Several
most valuable historical manuscripts are here preserved. '34 From the learned Maurist Benedictine Father D. Bernard de Montfaucon's enumeration, we learn, that some of these should interest the Irish ecclesiologist. '35 a more modern account of the artistic and literary treasures at Florence is that con-
'=" See " Gazetteer of the World," vol. v. ,
p. 130.
"3 See De Blainville's ** Travels through
"
Holland,Germany,SwitzerlandandItaly.
Published at London, a. d. 1757, in three
volumes, 4to.
'= Among these is " Vita S. Burkhardi, "
Episcopi Herbipolensis.
zu Erlangen befinden," or Description of the Diplomatic Manuscripts which are found
in the Royal University Library of Erlangen. Published at Erlangen, A. D. 1829, in 8vo.
there, at an early age, but are
they thought
to have perished. See Gerbertus "Iter Alemannicum," p. 79.
'3' See Leonardi Aretini, " Historiarum Florentinarum," libri xii. , lib. i. , p. i.
'*
Origin and Progress of Writing," Introduction, p. xvii.
'33 The Laurentian Library is said to have almost equalled the Vatican in the number of its manuscripts. See Rev. John Chet- wode Eustace's " Classical Tour through
An. mdcccii. , vol. iii. , ix. , Italy," chap,
PP- 352, 353-
'34 See " Handbook for Travel- Murray's
lers in Northern Italy," Part ii. . Route 59,
pp. 609 to 61 1.
'35 See •' Diarium Italicum, sive Monu-
"5 See " Clavis Baringii,
Diplomatica," pp. 254, 255. Published at Hanover, A. D.
1 754, in 4to shape.
"* The " Martyrologium S. Hieronymi"
—as usually styled—is an interesting old calendar of Saints, and this codex be- longed to St. "Willibrord. Many think he was the transcriber. See "Voyage Litte- raire de deux Religieux Benedictins de la Congregation de St. Maur," tome ii. ,
'3' See Astle's
297, 298.
"^ See Charles
"
clopaedia. " Geography. Vol. ii. , col. 930.
"* See Nicolai's "
Beschreibung
einer
Knight's
English Cy-
Reise durch Deutschland und die Schweitz
im Jahre 1787," or Description of a Journey
through Germany and Switzerland in the year 1787.
pp.
mentorum Veterum, Bibliothecarum, Musa:- '''See Irmischer's "Diplomatische Be- orum," &c. , cap. xxv. , pp. 362 to 375. schreibung der Manuscripte, welche sich Parisiis, A. D. 1 703. With Plans and Fi-
in dcr Koniglichen Universitats-Bibliothek gures.
'3° See " Cooper's
Appendix A," p. 75, and " Supplement to Appendix A," p. 18. Scottish MSS. were formerly preserved
and " 16, 17.
Supplement
to
Appendix A," pp.
lished at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, a. d. 1727, in folio.
'•^See Lomierus, " De Bibliothecis. " Also Maderus, "Libelli et Conimenta- tiones de Bibliothecis atque Archivis," ac- cessio altera, p. 115 ; see also p. 206. "Na- chrichten von der aus lauter
76,
"" See Struvius, Bibl. Hist. Lit. , p. 443,
and " Lectiones tomus Canisius, Antiquae,"
i. , p. 769. Also Cooper's "Appendix A," p. 18.
'^^ See Pezius, "Disertatio Isagogica," xxvi. Likewise, " Nachrichten von einigen alten Handschriften der ehemaligen
ehemaligen Handschriften bestandenen Bibliothek in
p.
Freysinger Stifts-Bibliothek.
Cooper's "
Appendix
pp. 77,
* ' zur Geshichte und Li- Aretin, Beytrage
teratur," Band or volume vii. , pp. 227 to 2^9, likewise 509 to 534.
"t9 See Isaac " of the Spon's History
"
Also, Von
INTRODUCTION. cxliii
tained in the work of Lady Morgan/36 Frankfort-on-the-Main. —This
fine commercial and prosperous German city, '3? Frankfort-on-the-Main, has a
pubUcUbrary. Awealthycitizen,MonsieurdeUffenbach,hadcollectedthere
a great number of manuscripts. ^^s Many of these belonged to St. Gall, and
they were saved by him after the pillage of that place. In the early part of
lastcentury,acatalogueofthepubliclibraryherewaspubHshed. *39 Several
of interest for the Irish manuscripts —great
are Freysingen. The Bavarian city of Freysingen has a public library. It contains several valuable books, with — ">! and some
nearly 300 manuscripts,
of them are almost 1,000 years old. ^42 Fulda. This fair city'43 has many interesting associations, ^-^^ in connexion with some of our celebrated Irish Saints. '^'s Fulda is exceeding rich in the possession of curious and ancient records. '*^ There, Irish and British writers have left some MSS. , written by them, as known by dates and names, thereto affixed. ^47 Among these MSS. is a Book of the Four Gospels, said to have been t—raced by the hand ofSt. Boniface,andinverysmallcharacters. '^ Geneva. Thisdelightfully situated Swiss city dates back to a time antecedent to Caesar's, '49 for it is alluded to as a place of consequence in his Commentaries. Geneva has a fine public library, founded by the celebrated Bonnivard. '5° It contains
'3* See
vol. ii. ,
xv. , xvi. ,
'*3 See Philippus Ferrarius, "Novum Lex-
icon Geographicum," tomus i. , p. 303. Michael Antonius Baudrand's edition.
interesting work, Fuldensium Antiquitatum Libri IHI. ," auctore R. P. Christoforo Brovvero, Socie-
tatis Jesu Presbytero, published at Antwerp, A. D. 161 2, gives a detailed account of this ancient German city.
'^s See Serarius, "Res Moguntiacse. " Mayence, a. d. 1604, 4to.
"
'**See Schannatt,
two volumes folio, published at Leipzig and
"Italy," pp, I to 72.
chap,
'37 See Philippus Ferrarius "Novum
Lexicon Geographicum," tomus i. , p.
299.
'38 See " Bibliotheca Uffenbachiana
MSSta. seu Catalogus et Recensio MSS- tonim qui in Bibliotheca Z. C. ab Uffenbach Trajecti ad Maenum adservantur. " Pub- lished at Halle, A. D. 1 720, in folio. Later still was produced, "Catalogus Manuscrip- torum Codicum Bibliothecae Uffenbachi- anse. " Published at Frankfort, a. d. 1747, in 8vo.
'39 See Lucius, "Catalogus Bibliothecae Publicae Mseno-Frankafurtensis. " Frankfort, A. D. 1728, in 4to.
'4° See Cooper's "Appendix A," pp. 75,
"
'** A very rare and
"
DioecesisetHierarchiaFuldensis. " Pub-
Fulda. " in i2mo. '^^ See
78, and 18, 19-
Published "
at Leipzig,
A. D. 181 2,'
hagiographist
preserved. ^<°
Vindemise Literariffi," Fulda, a. d. 1723. Also, Schannatt,
A," Supplement to Appendix A," pp.
City 'S'See William Coxe's "Travels in
and State of Geneva," book i. , p. 3.
Cxliv INTROBUCTION.
40,000 printed volumes, and very valuable MSS. ,'S' to the number of about
5,000,^53 torians. *S3
Among — GoTHA.
some,
In central
in its
the town of Gotha which contains
some 150,000 printed
sons," vol. ii. , Letter 63, p. 334.
'S'See the Librarian Senebier's "Cata-
dans la Bibliotheque de la Ville et Repub- lique de Geneve. " Published at Geneva, A. D. 1779, in 8vo.
'3' See M. Valery's "Voyages Histo- riques, Litteraires, et Artistiques en Italic, Guide Raisonne, et Complet du Voyageur et de 1' Artiste," tome i. , liv. i. , chap, vii. , p. n.
'S3 See Cooper's "Appendix A," pp. 97 "
''°
Afterwards the philologist, J. G. Grae-
these are
which have a value for- Irish his- special
Germany,
public library,*ss —
possesses
interesting codices,'54
volumes,^56 and 5,000 manuscripts. ^S7 Hamburg. theRiverElbe—wastheseatofaCatholicArchiepiscopalSee. Itformerly abounded with abbeys, nunneries and other charitable foundations. 'ss
Hamburg contains a great number of libraries, both public and private ;
while the wealth, public spirit and education, prevailing among its citizens, have tended to amass those rare codices, so prized by the leamed. '59 Several of these have a special interest, as they abound in Acts of our Irish Saints. Heidelburg. —Situated on the River Neckar, it had a rich library before1622,whenthiscitywastakenbytheSpaniards. ^^ Thebooksand manuscripts were dispersed •}^^ a part was taken to Vienna, and a part to theVaticanatRome. *^^ SomemattersofinterestfortheIrishhagiographer arekeptatHeidelburg. ^^3 Heiligenskreutz,ortheHolyCross. —Avery considerable collection of old manuscripts was preserved here,^^* and some of these were interesting in an Irish ecclesiastical sense. '^^ The old Cistercian Monastery of the place was founded a. d. 1134. ^^ Heilsbronn. —In this city of Wurtemberg, some manuscripts on Irish hagiological matters are to
Switzerland and in the Country of the Gri-
'59 See Cooper's
"
to 121, and logue raisonne des Manuscrits conserves manuscripts.
