of Giraldus7 This latter has been
inserted
in Capgrave's collection.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v3
, St.
Anthony's, Great Homer-street, Liverpool.
Nameche, Jlonsigneur, Recteur Magnifi- que del'Universite. Catholique, Louvain, Belgium.
Nolan, Rev. William A. , Rector, St. Paul's, Butler Co. , U. S. America.
O'Connell, Rev. William, C. C, Parochial House, Lower Exchange-street, Dublin. O'Connor, Right Rev. James, D. D. , Vicar-Apostolic of Nebraska, St. Philo- mena's Cathedral, Omaha, Douglas Co. ,
State of Nebraska, U. S. America. O'Flynn, Rev. Denis, S. T. L. , Pastor, St. Mary's, Saugerties, Ulster Co. , New
York, U. S.
Onahan, William J. , Esq. , No. 7 City
Hall, Chicago, State of Illinois, U. S. A. O'Reilly, Mr. Michael, 47 Amiens-street,
Dublin.
Parochial Library, The, Killasaet, Manor- hamilton, Co. Leitrim.
Parochial Library, St. Michael's, Kings- town, Co. Dublin.
Poole, James A. , Esq. , 29 Harcourt-street, Dublin.
Quinn, Hugh, Esq. , Solicitor, 2 South John-street, Liverpool.
Quinn, Mr. James, 8 Leslie-avenue, Dalkey, Dublin.
Rector, Very Rev. , Redemptorist Fathers, Limerick.
Reddy, Miss Catherine, 35 Philipsburgh- avenue, Fairview, Co. Dublin.
Rickard, Mr. Thomas, Waterfall View, Richmond-road, Fairview, Clontarf.
Robinson, Mr. John L. (Architect), 198 Great Brunswick-street, Dublin.
Rooney, Misg Teresa J. , 48 Lower Domi- nick-street. Dublin.
Ryan, Rt. Rev. Stephen Vincent, D. D. , Bishop of Buffalo, State of New York, U. S. A.
Shuley, Mr. John, 24, 25 and 26 Christ Church Place, Dublin.
Sister Mary Paul, Presentation Convent, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin.
Tinkler, Rev. John, M. A. , Arkengartb- dale Vicarage, Richmond, Vorkshi. . -, England.
Tohull, Mr. Henry, Moy, Co. Tyrone.
White, Rev. H. F. , St. Vincent's House,
Emraettsburg, State of Maryland, U. S. America,
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
jfirsit Bap Df i^ard;*
ARTICLE I. —LIFE OF ST. DAVID, ARCHBISHOP OF MENEVIA, AND CHIEF PATRON OF WALES.
HUMAN than examples, those,
which exhibit subUme
of
grades perfection,
[FIFTH AND SIXTH CENTURIES. }
CHAPTER I.
^
INTRODUCTION—SOURCES FOR ILLUSTRATING ST. DAVID'S BIOGRAPHY—PROPHECIES RE-
GARDING ST. David's birth—parentage of our ;-aint—circumstances and MIRACLES preceding HIS NATIVITY—BIRTH OF ST. DAVID—HIS BAPTISM.
thought can present no more gratifying remembrances, or
Brought carefully under our consideration, they should awaken our truest Christian sympathy. It is especially delight-
ful and edifying for every well-regulated mind, to regard actions and virtues, which really ennoble our nature, when inwoven with the life of every great saint. And yet, it is by no means an easy task, to unveil those acts and merits, which God's holy servants are so careful to conceal from general observation. The hidden life of a saint is the more valuable and instructive, because it forms healthy and vigorous germs of production, whence spiritual flowers and fruit are known to bloom and ripen. But, it is also the most difficulttocomprehendandexpound. Thisdifficultyisincreased,whenwe are led back to a remote period, with only few sufficient or authentic mate- rials existing, to aid our efforts for investigation. When dates are often con- flicting, and when history or tradition appears in particular instances distorted orcontradictory,evenrespectingpublicevents; wemustregardcertainLives of our early saints, in these Islands, as yet resting, partly in " a dim religious light," like the inner vistas of our grandest cathedrals, but more generally veiledbyshadows,thathavedeepenedfarintoremoteantiquity. Weshould especially desire to have the facts of this biographical notice sustained by many accessible proofs or records, and its chief incidents elucidated, from every just and trustworthy point of view. Although, according to a modern French writer, in a Catholic sense, the legend may be considered as the life of a saint,' we are still more fortunate in finding some facts of St. David's career blended with public ecclesiastical events of his age. Therefore, they become a fairer and more easy subject for historic investigation.
found in past Hving subjects.
Article i. — Chapter i. —' L. Tachet deBarneval's "Legendary History of Ire»
land. " Translated by John Gilmary O'Shea, p. 7. Boston; 1857, 121110.
Vol. III. —No. i,
a
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March i.
It is usual on the part of every careful writer of biography, and satisfac- tory to the studious reader, that sources, whence information has been pro- cured or may be sought, should first receive attention and consideration. Such a preliminary array of authorities—very many of which have been con-
sulted and studied—may best occupy those few pages of an introduction. Some manuscript materials here designated were inaccessible to the author ; but, he may venture to hazard a conjecture, that in the aggregate, these would not supply much additional or original information for the illustration of St. David's biography. To remedy possible defects, however, he has laboured
> to
procure
from other available and standard works, or from trustworthy in-
formants, the substance of what has been collected and digested, under the
heads of succeeding chapters.
Acts of this saint have been published by the Bollandists, at the ist day ofMarch. ^ Theyareprecededbyacriticalcommentary,containedintwo distinct sections. An attempt is there made to illustrate St, David's career, by giving an account concerning those biographies, that already referred to him. The places, with which he had been connected, the persons who were his contemporaries, with the period, when he lived, are severally investigated. Three different Appendices are found postfixed. 3 The whole is annotated by an anonymous learned editor. But this Bollandist commentator states, that while many Acts of St, David were extant, none of them seemed to have been written by coeval writers. Hence, it is not surprising, that some things depending solely on popular tradition were fabulous. Other accounts may have been carelessly or falsely inserted by transcribers, and altogethersuchstatementarenotquiteauthentic. Amongthemostancient of those Lives, as supposed, was one contained in a MS. Codex, which be- longed to the Church of Our Saviour, at Utrecht. This had been formerly brought from Great Britain. It seems to have been abridged from Ricemarc, and it had not been quoted even by Ussher, Colgan, Or any other writer, to
thetimewhentheBollandistsundertookitspublication. ALifeofSt. David
has been written by Ricemarchus, or Ricemarc, called, by Ussher, son of Sul- gen, about a. d. 1090. In Ricemarc's Life of St, David, there is no mention whatever of King Arthur. This is said to be a prolix and an affected work, while it formed a foundation for all subsequent biographies. A copy of it was preserved in the British Museum. * Giraldus Cambrensis,s about a. d,
1200,^ produced another Life, as also John of Teignmouth, a contemporary
*"
See "Acta Sanctorum, tomusi. Martii century. It has been falsely ascribed to
i. Vita S. Davidis, pp. 38 to 47.
3 The P'irst Appendix merely contains an account of the Rule, which St. David pre- scribed for his monks. It forms only an ex- tract, taken from his Acts, as published by
Giraldus.
Colgan,
and it
nearlyagrees
with the
s Archbishop Ussher formerly possessed an ancient MS. Life of St. David, by Giral- dus. This he quotes in his " Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates. " It would seem, from a statement made " De
written by John Capgrave. The Second
Appendix gives an account concerning mira-
cles, wrought through the intercession of St. David, and occurring after his death. It has been extracted from Harpsfeld's "His- toria Anglicana. " The Third Appendix also relates to St. David's miracles. This state- ment has been drawn from John Capgrave's " Nova Legenda Anglice. " — ^ Cotton MSS. Vespasian A. xiv. ff. 60 696. Vel. 4to, xii—. cent. In the Ilarleian MSS. , 624 ff. 73 81, paper folio, xvii. cent. , there is a transcript of Ricemarc's Life q\ St. David, made in the seventeenth
had been formerly preserved in the public Library at Cambridge,
legend,
by Pitseus, Illustribus Anglias Scriptoribus," that a MS. Life of St. David, attributed to Giraldus,
* Published first in Wharton's " Anglia Sacra," vol. ii. , p. 628. It was taken from aMS. intheCottonLibrary. Vitellius,E. vii. This MS. has since disappeared. It is supposed to have perished in a fire, which broke out in the library, a. d. 1731, and this
destroyed many valuable papers and MSS. No other copy of the work is now known to exist.
^ There is a Life of St. David, thus classed,
March i. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
of Giraldus7 This latter has been inserted in Capgrave's collection. Leland, in the reign of Henry VIII. , wrote one, and this has been published in his Collectanea} There is, likewise, an ancient Welsh Life, extant in the British Museum ;9 and another in the College of Jesus, Oxford. '" Colgan, at the ist of March, publishes a Life of St. David," which has been copied from a
MS. belonging to the monastery of All Saints in Lough-Ree, county of Long- ford. " Some writers imagined it might be the same as that mentioned by
Ussher, and which had been written by Ricemarchus. But they are evidently different ; for, the lengthy passage, quoted by Ussher, is not given in the Life
published by Colgan. Perhaps, the author of this tract was Augustin Mag- raidin, a member of All Saints' Monastery, and who wrote many Lives of Saints. It had been formerly communicated to the Bollandists, by Father Hugh Ward. This differs but little from a Life published by the Bollandists, and which was taken from a MS. of Utrecht. There are other Lives of St. David. '3 In the opinion of the Bollandists, Colgan's copy had been taken from more recent Acts of St. David ; but, while an attempt had been made to polish style, certain false glosses had been inserted. The authors of St. David's old Acts, for the most part, are unknown. Therefore, are they often quoted as anonymous writers. '* There seems to be no deficiency of manu- script and printed materials extant, for compiling the Life of St. David, the illustriousPatronofWales. SirThomasDuffusHardy,DeputyKeeperofthe Public Records, enumerates, and partially describes, no fewer than twenty- one distinct copies of biographies or fragments, relating to this saint. ^s Many of these, however, appear to have been composed from some common original. Nevertheless, verbal differences, and even whole sentences, abridged or interpolated, may be detected, on an examination of those several codices. '^
MS. Bodl. Tanner, 15. f. 139, veil. fol. dble. cols. XV. cent. This is an abridgment of the MS. Cott. Vespas. A. xiv. , with a very few slight insertions, and two late miracles, added at the end. It is found in Capgrave's " Nova Legenda Anglias. " Also, one similar, MS. Cott. Tiber. E. i. 22, ff. 48 b. —51 b. vel. large fol.
MS. Bibl. Pub. Cant. Ff. I. 27. 28. ff.
618—635b. veil. xiii. cent. Thisappearsto
have been written by Ricemarchus, as stated
towards the end. Apparently it is an abbre-
viation of the Cottonian MS. Vespas. A.
xiv. There are enumerated, likewise, MS.
Cott. Nero, E. i. ff. 364—368. veil, large
fol. —xi. cent, and MS. Bodl. 793 (2641. ) ff.
221 veil, 8vo, xii. cent. There 236. long
are MS. Lives of St. David, known as, MS. 9 Cotton MSS. Tiber. D. xxii. ff. 136— Bodl. Rawl. B. 505. pp. 217—223. Veil,
^ Vol. iv. , p. 107.
"
sult
Church," chap. v.
Antiquities of the British
fol. xiv. cent. , and MS. Bodl. Rawl, b. 485. f. iii. veil. 4to, xiv. cent. These seem to havebeenabridgedfromMS,Cott. Vespas. A. xiv. (No. 356. ) A similar copy has been printed by Colgan, for his Life of this saint. A MS. Reg. 13. C. i. ff. 171—174, Paper 4to, xvii. cent. , is also known. A fragment of St. David's Life is found in the MS. Harl. 310. f. 166. Paper 4to, xvii. cent. It is only a single leaf, beginning and ending abruptly. An excerpt from St David's Life occurs in MS. Lambeth. f. 61.
cent. Apparently, it is the same as MS, Cott. Vespas. A. xiv. (No. 356). Also, a MS. Sloane, 4788. f. 84 b. (olim MS, Cla-
Stillingfleet's
585.
There is mention, likewise, of MS. Bodley Digby. 112. f. 99—114 b. veil. 4to, xii.
This latter occurs in John of
"
Teignmouth's Sanctilogium. "
182. veil. 8vo. Its subject is the Passion of St. David and St. Margaret.
'°
Classed,MS. cxix. f. 91.
" The copy he procured was taken from
the Manuscript Codices, belonging to Rt. Rev. David Routh, Bishop of Ossory.
"See "Acta Sanctorum Hibernias,"
Martii i. Vita S. Davidis Episcopi Mene-
vensis, pp. 425 to 432, with accompanying notes.
'^ Concerning which the reader may con-
'" See Ussher's "Index Chronologicus," A. D. DXXIX. , p. 528.
'5 See "Descriptive Catalogue of Mate-
rials relating to the History of Great Britain
and Ireland to the End of the Reign of rendon, 39. ) Paper, fol. xvii. cent. We
Henry VII. ," vol. i. , part i. , pp. 118 to 124. "" In addition to MSS. already mentioned, as serving to illustrate our saint's biography, the following are extant : One described, as
meet with a MS. C. C.
Nameche, Jlonsigneur, Recteur Magnifi- que del'Universite. Catholique, Louvain, Belgium.
Nolan, Rev. William A. , Rector, St. Paul's, Butler Co. , U. S. America.
O'Connell, Rev. William, C. C, Parochial House, Lower Exchange-street, Dublin. O'Connor, Right Rev. James, D. D. , Vicar-Apostolic of Nebraska, St. Philo- mena's Cathedral, Omaha, Douglas Co. ,
State of Nebraska, U. S. America. O'Flynn, Rev. Denis, S. T. L. , Pastor, St. Mary's, Saugerties, Ulster Co. , New
York, U. S.
Onahan, William J. , Esq. , No. 7 City
Hall, Chicago, State of Illinois, U. S. A. O'Reilly, Mr. Michael, 47 Amiens-street,
Dublin.
Parochial Library, The, Killasaet, Manor- hamilton, Co. Leitrim.
Parochial Library, St. Michael's, Kings- town, Co. Dublin.
Poole, James A. , Esq. , 29 Harcourt-street, Dublin.
Quinn, Hugh, Esq. , Solicitor, 2 South John-street, Liverpool.
Quinn, Mr. James, 8 Leslie-avenue, Dalkey, Dublin.
Rector, Very Rev. , Redemptorist Fathers, Limerick.
Reddy, Miss Catherine, 35 Philipsburgh- avenue, Fairview, Co. Dublin.
Rickard, Mr. Thomas, Waterfall View, Richmond-road, Fairview, Clontarf.
Robinson, Mr. John L. (Architect), 198 Great Brunswick-street, Dublin.
Rooney, Misg Teresa J. , 48 Lower Domi- nick-street. Dublin.
Ryan, Rt. Rev. Stephen Vincent, D. D. , Bishop of Buffalo, State of New York, U. S. A.
Shuley, Mr. John, 24, 25 and 26 Christ Church Place, Dublin.
Sister Mary Paul, Presentation Convent, Clondalkin, Co. Dublin.
Tinkler, Rev. John, M. A. , Arkengartb- dale Vicarage, Richmond, Vorkshi. . -, England.
Tohull, Mr. Henry, Moy, Co. Tyrone.
White, Rev. H. F. , St. Vincent's House,
Emraettsburg, State of Maryland, U. S. America,
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
jfirsit Bap Df i^ard;*
ARTICLE I. —LIFE OF ST. DAVID, ARCHBISHOP OF MENEVIA, AND CHIEF PATRON OF WALES.
HUMAN than examples, those,
which exhibit subUme
of
grades perfection,
[FIFTH AND SIXTH CENTURIES. }
CHAPTER I.
^
INTRODUCTION—SOURCES FOR ILLUSTRATING ST. DAVID'S BIOGRAPHY—PROPHECIES RE-
GARDING ST. David's birth—parentage of our ;-aint—circumstances and MIRACLES preceding HIS NATIVITY—BIRTH OF ST. DAVID—HIS BAPTISM.
thought can present no more gratifying remembrances, or
Brought carefully under our consideration, they should awaken our truest Christian sympathy. It is especially delight-
ful and edifying for every well-regulated mind, to regard actions and virtues, which really ennoble our nature, when inwoven with the life of every great saint. And yet, it is by no means an easy task, to unveil those acts and merits, which God's holy servants are so careful to conceal from general observation. The hidden life of a saint is the more valuable and instructive, because it forms healthy and vigorous germs of production, whence spiritual flowers and fruit are known to bloom and ripen. But, it is also the most difficulttocomprehendandexpound. Thisdifficultyisincreased,whenwe are led back to a remote period, with only few sufficient or authentic mate- rials existing, to aid our efforts for investigation. When dates are often con- flicting, and when history or tradition appears in particular instances distorted orcontradictory,evenrespectingpublicevents; wemustregardcertainLives of our early saints, in these Islands, as yet resting, partly in " a dim religious light," like the inner vistas of our grandest cathedrals, but more generally veiledbyshadows,thathavedeepenedfarintoremoteantiquity. Weshould especially desire to have the facts of this biographical notice sustained by many accessible proofs or records, and its chief incidents elucidated, from every just and trustworthy point of view. Although, according to a modern French writer, in a Catholic sense, the legend may be considered as the life of a saint,' we are still more fortunate in finding some facts of St. David's career blended with public ecclesiastical events of his age. Therefore, they become a fairer and more easy subject for historic investigation.
found in past Hving subjects.
Article i. — Chapter i. —' L. Tachet deBarneval's "Legendary History of Ire»
land. " Translated by John Gilmary O'Shea, p. 7. Boston; 1857, 121110.
Vol. III. —No. i,
a
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [March i.
It is usual on the part of every careful writer of biography, and satisfac- tory to the studious reader, that sources, whence information has been pro- cured or may be sought, should first receive attention and consideration. Such a preliminary array of authorities—very many of which have been con-
sulted and studied—may best occupy those few pages of an introduction. Some manuscript materials here designated were inaccessible to the author ; but, he may venture to hazard a conjecture, that in the aggregate, these would not supply much additional or original information for the illustration of St. David's biography. To remedy possible defects, however, he has laboured
> to
procure
from other available and standard works, or from trustworthy in-
formants, the substance of what has been collected and digested, under the
heads of succeeding chapters.
Acts of this saint have been published by the Bollandists, at the ist day ofMarch. ^ Theyareprecededbyacriticalcommentary,containedintwo distinct sections. An attempt is there made to illustrate St, David's career, by giving an account concerning those biographies, that already referred to him. The places, with which he had been connected, the persons who were his contemporaries, with the period, when he lived, are severally investigated. Three different Appendices are found postfixed. 3 The whole is annotated by an anonymous learned editor. But this Bollandist commentator states, that while many Acts of St, David were extant, none of them seemed to have been written by coeval writers. Hence, it is not surprising, that some things depending solely on popular tradition were fabulous. Other accounts may have been carelessly or falsely inserted by transcribers, and altogethersuchstatementarenotquiteauthentic. Amongthemostancient of those Lives, as supposed, was one contained in a MS. Codex, which be- longed to the Church of Our Saviour, at Utrecht. This had been formerly brought from Great Britain. It seems to have been abridged from Ricemarc, and it had not been quoted even by Ussher, Colgan, Or any other writer, to
thetimewhentheBollandistsundertookitspublication. ALifeofSt. David
has been written by Ricemarchus, or Ricemarc, called, by Ussher, son of Sul- gen, about a. d. 1090. In Ricemarc's Life of St, David, there is no mention whatever of King Arthur. This is said to be a prolix and an affected work, while it formed a foundation for all subsequent biographies. A copy of it was preserved in the British Museum. * Giraldus Cambrensis,s about a. d,
1200,^ produced another Life, as also John of Teignmouth, a contemporary
*"
See "Acta Sanctorum, tomusi. Martii century. It has been falsely ascribed to
i. Vita S. Davidis, pp. 38 to 47.
3 The P'irst Appendix merely contains an account of the Rule, which St. David pre- scribed for his monks. It forms only an ex- tract, taken from his Acts, as published by
Giraldus.
Colgan,
and it
nearlyagrees
with the
s Archbishop Ussher formerly possessed an ancient MS. Life of St. David, by Giral- dus. This he quotes in his " Britannicarum Ecclesiarum Antiquitates. " It would seem, from a statement made " De
written by John Capgrave. The Second
Appendix gives an account concerning mira-
cles, wrought through the intercession of St. David, and occurring after his death. It has been extracted from Harpsfeld's "His- toria Anglicana. " The Third Appendix also relates to St. David's miracles. This state- ment has been drawn from John Capgrave's " Nova Legenda Anglice. " — ^ Cotton MSS. Vespasian A. xiv. ff. 60 696. Vel. 4to, xii—. cent. In the Ilarleian MSS. , 624 ff. 73 81, paper folio, xvii. cent. , there is a transcript of Ricemarc's Life q\ St. David, made in the seventeenth
had been formerly preserved in the public Library at Cambridge,
legend,
by Pitseus, Illustribus Anglias Scriptoribus," that a MS. Life of St. David, attributed to Giraldus,
* Published first in Wharton's " Anglia Sacra," vol. ii. , p. 628. It was taken from aMS. intheCottonLibrary. Vitellius,E. vii. This MS. has since disappeared. It is supposed to have perished in a fire, which broke out in the library, a. d. 1731, and this
destroyed many valuable papers and MSS. No other copy of the work is now known to exist.
^ There is a Life of St. David, thus classed,
March i. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
of Giraldus7 This latter has been inserted in Capgrave's collection. Leland, in the reign of Henry VIII. , wrote one, and this has been published in his Collectanea} There is, likewise, an ancient Welsh Life, extant in the British Museum ;9 and another in the College of Jesus, Oxford. '" Colgan, at the ist of March, publishes a Life of St. David," which has been copied from a
MS. belonging to the monastery of All Saints in Lough-Ree, county of Long- ford. " Some writers imagined it might be the same as that mentioned by
Ussher, and which had been written by Ricemarchus. But they are evidently different ; for, the lengthy passage, quoted by Ussher, is not given in the Life
published by Colgan. Perhaps, the author of this tract was Augustin Mag- raidin, a member of All Saints' Monastery, and who wrote many Lives of Saints. It had been formerly communicated to the Bollandists, by Father Hugh Ward. This differs but little from a Life published by the Bollandists, and which was taken from a MS. of Utrecht. There are other Lives of St. David. '3 In the opinion of the Bollandists, Colgan's copy had been taken from more recent Acts of St. David ; but, while an attempt had been made to polish style, certain false glosses had been inserted. The authors of St. David's old Acts, for the most part, are unknown. Therefore, are they often quoted as anonymous writers. '* There seems to be no deficiency of manu- script and printed materials extant, for compiling the Life of St. David, the illustriousPatronofWales. SirThomasDuffusHardy,DeputyKeeperofthe Public Records, enumerates, and partially describes, no fewer than twenty- one distinct copies of biographies or fragments, relating to this saint. ^s Many of these, however, appear to have been composed from some common original. Nevertheless, verbal differences, and even whole sentences, abridged or interpolated, may be detected, on an examination of those several codices. '^
MS. Bodl. Tanner, 15. f. 139, veil. fol. dble. cols. XV. cent. This is an abridgment of the MS. Cott. Vespas. A. xiv. , with a very few slight insertions, and two late miracles, added at the end. It is found in Capgrave's " Nova Legenda Anglias. " Also, one similar, MS. Cott. Tiber. E. i. 22, ff. 48 b. —51 b. vel. large fol.
MS. Bibl. Pub. Cant. Ff. I. 27. 28. ff.
618—635b. veil. xiii. cent. Thisappearsto
have been written by Ricemarchus, as stated
towards the end. Apparently it is an abbre-
viation of the Cottonian MS. Vespas. A.
xiv. There are enumerated, likewise, MS.
Cott. Nero, E. i. ff. 364—368. veil, large
fol. —xi. cent, and MS. Bodl. 793 (2641. ) ff.
221 veil, 8vo, xii. cent. There 236. long
are MS. Lives of St. David, known as, MS. 9 Cotton MSS. Tiber. D. xxii. ff. 136— Bodl. Rawl. B. 505. pp. 217—223. Veil,
^ Vol. iv. , p. 107.
"
sult
Church," chap. v.
Antiquities of the British
fol. xiv. cent. , and MS. Bodl. Rawl, b. 485. f. iii. veil. 4to, xiv. cent. These seem to havebeenabridgedfromMS,Cott. Vespas. A. xiv. (No. 356. ) A similar copy has been printed by Colgan, for his Life of this saint. A MS. Reg. 13. C. i. ff. 171—174, Paper 4to, xvii. cent. , is also known. A fragment of St. David's Life is found in the MS. Harl. 310. f. 166. Paper 4to, xvii. cent. It is only a single leaf, beginning and ending abruptly. An excerpt from St David's Life occurs in MS. Lambeth. f. 61.
cent. Apparently, it is the same as MS, Cott. Vespas. A. xiv. (No. 356). Also, a MS. Sloane, 4788. f. 84 b. (olim MS, Cla-
Stillingfleet's
585.
There is mention, likewise, of MS. Bodley Digby. 112. f. 99—114 b. veil. 4to, xii.
This latter occurs in John of
"
Teignmouth's Sanctilogium. "
182. veil. 8vo. Its subject is the Passion of St. David and St. Margaret.
'°
Classed,MS. cxix. f. 91.
" The copy he procured was taken from
the Manuscript Codices, belonging to Rt. Rev. David Routh, Bishop of Ossory.
"See "Acta Sanctorum Hibernias,"
Martii i. Vita S. Davidis Episcopi Mene-
vensis, pp. 425 to 432, with accompanying notes.
'^ Concerning which the reader may con-
'" See Ussher's "Index Chronologicus," A. D. DXXIX. , p. 528.
'5 See "Descriptive Catalogue of Mate-
rials relating to the History of Great Britain
and Ireland to the End of the Reign of rendon, 39. ) Paper, fol. xvii. cent. We
Henry VII. ," vol. i. , part i. , pp. 118 to 124. "" In addition to MSS. already mentioned, as serving to illustrate our saint's biography, the following are extant : One described, as
meet with a MS. C. C.
