Brendan, of Clonfert, which were
intended
for publication, at the i6th of May.
O'Hanlon - Lives of the Irish Saints - v5
Brendani versibus rhythmi-
Cott. Vespes. D. ix. Ff i to 9. veil, smal! 4to, xiii. cent. The title, " De S, Brendano," is added, in a hand of the fifteenth century ; another hand of the eighteenth century hascntercd " VitaS. Bren- dani. " It runs in stanz. as of four Latin lines,
721.
37 See Sir Thomas DufTus Hardy's " De-
scriptive Catalogue of Manuscript Materials relating to the History of Great Brit. ain and Ireland," vol. i. , part i. , i)p. 159 to 164.
^^ Some of these are noted at fol. 69, 192,
"Acta Sancti Brendani," pp. 45 to 84.
-* A Memorial of St. Brandan and other
saints. MSS. Lambeth, 621, f 11, paper. ^^ MSS. Dec. et Cap. Eborac. 16, il. 5. i,
sisting of about 1,800 lines.
^* Vita S. Brendani, MS. Stowe, No. xxxvi,
^9 MSS Ashmole, 43. Ff 71 b—80 b. , veil, 4to, circa 1300.
3" Legenda brevis de S. Brandano, MS. Arundel, 330, f 24.
3' No. 1280,
3= There do we find, under the head, " Vita S. Brendani, "the enumeration, and descrip- tion from the catalogue, viz. : No, 2444. 2. olim Colbert, veil. xiii. cent. ; 2845. 2. olim
20. olim S. Martial. Lemovicensis. veil, xi,
;
48S7. 8. olim Putean. veil. xii. cent.
5138. 3. olim S. Martial. Lemovicensis, veil,
xiii. cent. ; 5284. 28. olim Colbert, veil.
xiii. cent. 534S. 2. olim Colbert veil, xiii.
;
cent. 5371. 2. olim Baluz. veil. xiii. cent. ;;
5572. 10. olim Faurian. veil. xi. cent. ; Ap- pend. 2333 a. 3. olim Philiberti de la Mare, veil. xiv. cent. ; 6041 a, veil. xiv. cent. , olim Rog. de Gaigniers.
53 Among the MSS. Bibl. de la Ville de Chartres.
3^ Among the MSS. Bibl. de la Ville de Laon, 345, veil, folio, xiii. cent,
veil. 4to, xv. cent.
3* Colgan alludes to it, as belonging to the
"'
35 Among the MSS. Bibl. de Cambrai,
Carthusians of this city. See
197, in vol, xxii. ; but, it is doubtful— although probable from Mr. Bindon's de- scription—that all of these refer to St. Bren- dan the Navigator. One or more might refer to St. Brendan, Abbot of Birr.
39 See also, MS. Bibl. Ducum Burgundioe, S638, XV. cent.
4" At the commencement, and also at the end, of the MS. , may be found the following note : " Pertinet Monasterio Canonnor. Re- gularum. in Bethleem, ppe Lovanium.
4' The contents of the volume are given, upon the first fly-leaf, and they are as follows, viz. : 1 160. It navigatio S. Brendani abbatis ad diversas insulas ; 1 162. It epistola Presbi- teri Joannis imperatoris majoris; 1 163. It itinerarium Joannis de Mandeville militis. The initial letters of the four different pieces are about two inches in diameter, while orna- mented in vermilion and pink colours, but not very neatly executed, and the observation applies to the penmanship. Mandeville and Tungdalus are in the text styled " milites. " The date, or the name of the scribe, could notbefoundintheMS. ; but,bycompari- son with MSS. of a known date, it appears as old as the " Inventaire " states, namely,
the close of the fifteenth century.
4- See vol. xxii. , fol. 89.
"3 See "Proceedings of the Royal Irish
Academy,'' vol. iii. , pp. 477 to 452.
44 Held, on the 24th of May, 1847.
45 See L. Tachet de Barneval's " Historic
Legendaire de I'lrlande," chap, xxii. , pp. 246, 247.
4* His name is unknown but, he was pro- ;
bably an ecclesiastic, as the character of his narrative and his style of relating it indi-
cate.
47 This poem begins with these lines s—
" Donna Aaliz la reine,
Par qui valdrat lei divine. "
In Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, for 1836, vol. xxxix. , No. ccxlviii. , under the heading "The Anglo-Norman Trouveres,"
appear English translations of the foregoing, as taken from the Cotton Library copy, classed Vespasian, B. x. The following rendering of the opening lines—forming a very fair specimen of the remaining portion
—is "
here submitted : —
Lady Adelais, who queen
By the grace of heav'n hath been Ycrowned, who this land hath blest With peace, and wholesome laws,
and rest,
Both by King Henry's stalwart might And by thy counsels mild and
right ;
For these, their holy benison MaytheApostlesshedeachone
A thousand, thousand-fold upon
thee :
And, since thy mild command hath
won me
To turn this goodly historic
Into romanz, and carefully
To write it out, and sootlily tell What to St. Brandan erst befell,
At thy command I undertake
The task right gladly, but will make No light or silly pleasantrie.
Unfit in such grave work to be. "
—See pp. 807, 808.
——
May i6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
these. It is the work of Michael O'Clery. Among the Burgundian MSS. 39 vol. ii. , there is a middle size folio, in the Latin language, bound in wood, covered with calf-skin, and ornamented with brass clasps. '° This volume is intituled, in the classing of the old library, to which it belonged, as follows: " Naviga- tio S. Brendani ad varias Insulas cum aliis—Beth. Louv. 48. "4' Tiie first leaf of this MS. is vellum, then follow four leaves of paper, and then two of vellum, and so on, until the eightieth, which is of vellum, also, and which is the last in the volume. Again, among the Burgundian Library Manuscripts, Bruxelles, there is a dissertation, "De S. Columba et Brendano. "42 The foregoing have been noticed, by Mr. Bindon,43 at a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy. ''4
Various readings are to be found, in the different Manuscript Lives, which are scattered in so many places; and, even >he order and subject matters for narrative have been modified, or changed, according to the taste or fancy of composers and scribes. If we apply to the Navigation of St. Brendon, the ordinary critical analysis of poems, remarks a French writer, it will not be difficult to find, in the mystic and marvellous parts of that legend, the origin and historic realities of a monastic and spiritual Odyssey, so celebrated among the romances of Ireland. ^? An Anglo-Norman bard 4^ produced this cele- brated voyage in French, long before the hermit of Hampede, Robert of Gloucester, Gower, or Chaucer, attempted English versification, and a distinc- tive English literature. It seems to have been composed, at the request of
Auliz la Bele,47 or the beautiful Adelais of Louvain, the Queen of Henry I. ,
393
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [May i6.
KingofEngland,andsurnamedBeauclerc. VariousActsofdifferentIrishcon- temporaneous saints serve to throw a reflected light on the history of St. Bren- dan and his time. Among others, Augustin Magraidin^^ prepared a Life of St. Brendan,intheIslandofAllSaints,LoughRee,countyofLongford. Jaco- bus de Voragine/9 who was born about a. d. 1230, and who became Provin- cial of the Dominicans and Bishop of Genoa—the native city of Columbus gave St. Brendan's land a special prominence, in the thirteenth century, by writing his " Golden Legend. "s° In the version of it, published by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1483, we find the " Lyfe of Saynt Brandon. "5' Also, John Capgravehasabriefaccountofoursaint,5^ alsoJohnofTriltenheim,53John Bale,=* Archbishop Ussher,55 Thomas Dempster,s^ and Sir James Ware. 57 From that list,^^ belonging to Colgan, we can ascertain, that he left Acts of St.
Brendan, of Clonfert, which were intended for publication, at the i6th of May. In his published work, he promised, also, to treat diffusely, on the subject of Brendan's celebrated voyage. 59 The Bollandists have published some accountofthissaint,^°andalsoBishopTanner. ^' AnabridgmentofhisActs has been issued by Bishop Challenor. ^' To distinguish him from his name- sake, the Abbot of Birr, we find in the Rev. Alban Butler's work the name of St. Brendan, the Elder, Abbot of Fearta, or Clonfert, on the River Shan- non, at the i6th of May. ^3 The Rev. John Lanigan, D. D. , has devoted some pages of his history to the elucidation of St. Brendan's Acts. ^'^ The Life of St. Brendan, the Navigator, has been issued, in an old English form, by the Percy Society. ^s This was first issued fi-om the press,^^ by Wynkyn de Worde,^7 and its composition is ascribed toRobertof Gloucester. Again, Mon. Achille Jubinal ^^ and L. Tachet de Barneval ^^ have given us, in somewhat different
t*^ He departed this life A. D. 1405. Maii xvi, De S. Brendano sev Brandano "'Jacobus De Voragine was born, about Abbate Cluainfertensi in Hibernia. This
394
A. D. 1230, at Voraggio, and he died on the 14th of July, 1298, at Genoa. See notices of his life, in M. C. Dr. Hoefer's "Nouvelle Biographie Generale," tome xlvi. , pp. 452, 453-
5° In the edition of this work, a. d. 1 5 19, I cannot find any mention of St. Brendan.
5' See fol. 357.
5' In Legenda Sanctorum Anglire.
53 See " De Viris Illustribus Ordinis S.
treatise is a selection from various accounts, in two chapters, and in fifteen paragraphs, edited by P'athcr Goilefiid Ilenschenn, pp. 599 to 603.
°' See " Bibliotheca Brilannico-IIibcr- nica," &c. , p. 123.
'^ See " liritaimia Sancta," part i. , pp. 289, 290.
*3 See " Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and other principal Saints," vol. v. , May xvi.
*' See " Ecclesiastical History of Ire- land," vol. i. , chap. vi. ,sect. viii. , p. 288, antl 5^ See " Scriptorum inustrinm Majoris nn. 84, 85, p. 292 Also, vol. ii. , chap, x. ,
Benedicti," cap. xxxi.
Brytannice," &c. , Cent, xiv. , num. Ixxviii. , p. 236.
55 See " Britannicarum Ecclcsiarum Anti-
quitates," cap. xiv. , p. 277, and cap. xvii. ,
pp. 451, 471, 474, 476, 494, and Index Clironologicus, p. 532.
5* See " Historia Ecclesiaiica Gentis Scotorum," tomus i. , lib. ii. , sect. 143, pp. 81, 82.
57 See " De Scriptoribus Ilibernix," lib. i. , cap. ii. , pp. 12, 13. Also, "De Ililjernia et Antiquitatibus ejus Disquisiiiones," cap. xxvi. , p. 215.
5^ "Catalogus Actuum Sanctorum quce MS. habentur, ordinc Mcnsium et Die- rum. "
59 See "Acta Sanctorum IIibcrni;c," Martii xxii. De Egressionc Familix' S. Brendani, cap. xiv. , p. 724.
'^ See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. ,
sect, vii. , with notes 91 to 133, pp. 28 to 41. *5 See vol. xiv. Edited by Wright, in 1844. Its title is "St. Brandan ; A Me- dieval Legend of the Sea," in English V'erse and Prose, Preface, pp. v. to viii. , Melricul Life, pp. I to 34, Prose Life, pp. 35 to 56,
with nn. pp. 57 to 63. ^ It begins with ;
" Seint Brendan the holi man was zund of Irlande :
Monck he was of hard lyf as I vudcr- stonde. "
It ends with:—"Nou God us bringe to tlnilke joye that his soule wende to. Amen. " *"' A copy of this edition, su|)poscd to be unifjuc, is in the Grenville Library, British
Museum.
'" This work is intituled :—" St. Br. \n-
——
395
forms, the highly-romantic narrative of St. Brendan's Navigation in search ofthePromisedLand. Thisrenownedvoyage,sohappilyversified,7°bya distinguished Irish poet, Denis Florence MacCarthy, forms the subject of a noble composition,7' that has very few more interesting competitors in the English language, both for theme and treatment. ^* The Rev. W. J. Rees has published the Acts of St. Brendan, in Latin,73 with an English translation. 74 An account of this saint will be found, in the works of Rev. M. J. Brenan, O. S. F. ;75 Rev. Dr. James Henthorn Todd,7'5 Le Vicomte Hersart de la Ville- marque,77Rev. RobertKing,? ^BishopForbes,79andEugene0'Curry. ^° In the Dutch language was lately published, the Legend of Sanct Brandan,^' in various texts, prose and metre. A learned Preface introduces the reader to the first Tract in Latin, " Peregrinatio Sancti Brandani Abbatis. " Next follows, Von Sente Brandan, in Dutch rhymed stanza,^^ of five lines to each stanza ; afterwards. Van dem hilgen sunte Brandan, also similarly rhymed
f'^ a prose Tract follows, Von Sand Brandon ein hiibsch leiblich lesen, was er wunders auf dem mor erfaren hat. ^'* These are all illustrated with researchful and learned notes, by the editor. The Most Rev. Patrick F. Moraa collected and published several Latin Acts of St. Brendan,^^ in 1872, and among the rest is A. Jubinal's version, ^^ collated with several other correlative MSS. ^7 Also,noticesofthissaintaregivenbyRev. JamesRose,^^M. Le Dr. Hoefer,^9 Rev. S. Baring-Gould,9° in the Bibliographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne,? ' in the " Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biogra-
daine's Legende Latine avec nne Trailuction inedite en Prose et en Poesie Romanes," pub- liees par A. Jubinal, A Paris, 1836, 8vo.
*' . See his " Histoire Legendaire de I'lr- lande,"chap. xxiii. Voyage de Saint Bren- dan, Paris, 1856, 8vo.
1° It was first published as a contribution to the " Dubhn University Magazine," in the hey-day of its celebrity as a first-class period- cal, now nearly forty years ago.
7' The latest version of this fine poem, is in the collected "Poems,"by Denis Florence MacCarthy, edited with a Preface by his son John MacCarthy, pp. 83 to 105, Dublin, 1882. cr. 8vo.
7- It is given under six distinct head- ings : —I. The Vocation. II. Ara of the Saints. III. The Voyage, iv. The Buried City. V. The Paradise of Birds, vi. The Promised Land.
73 See "Lives of the Cambro-British Saints," pp. 251 to 254.
''' See ibid. , pp. 575 to 579.
75 See "Ecclesiastical History of Ire- land," Sixth Century, chap, i. , pp. 57, 58, Duffy's edition, Dublin, 1864.
76 See " St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland," chap, iii. , n. i, pp. 459, 460.
'7 See " La Lcgende Celtique et la Poesie en Irlande, en Cambric, et en Bretagne," sect, v. , pj). liv. to Ixiii. , Paris, 1864, 8vo.
382, and Appendix xli. , p. 533.
^' It is intituled : " Sanct Brandan.
Cott. Vespes. D. ix. Ff i to 9. veil, smal! 4to, xiii. cent. The title, " De S, Brendano," is added, in a hand of the fifteenth century ; another hand of the eighteenth century hascntercd " VitaS. Bren- dani. " It runs in stanz. as of four Latin lines,
721.
37 See Sir Thomas DufTus Hardy's " De-
scriptive Catalogue of Manuscript Materials relating to the History of Great Brit. ain and Ireland," vol. i. , part i. , i)p. 159 to 164.
^^ Some of these are noted at fol. 69, 192,
"Acta Sancti Brendani," pp. 45 to 84.
-* A Memorial of St. Brandan and other
saints. MSS. Lambeth, 621, f 11, paper. ^^ MSS. Dec. et Cap. Eborac. 16, il. 5. i,
sisting of about 1,800 lines.
^* Vita S. Brendani, MS. Stowe, No. xxxvi,
^9 MSS Ashmole, 43. Ff 71 b—80 b. , veil, 4to, circa 1300.
3" Legenda brevis de S. Brandano, MS. Arundel, 330, f 24.
3' No. 1280,
3= There do we find, under the head, " Vita S. Brendani, "the enumeration, and descrip- tion from the catalogue, viz. : No, 2444. 2. olim Colbert, veil. xiii. cent. ; 2845. 2. olim
20. olim S. Martial. Lemovicensis. veil, xi,
;
48S7. 8. olim Putean. veil. xii. cent.
5138. 3. olim S. Martial. Lemovicensis, veil,
xiii. cent. ; 5284. 28. olim Colbert, veil.
xiii. cent. 534S. 2. olim Colbert veil, xiii.
;
cent. 5371. 2. olim Baluz. veil. xiii. cent. ;;
5572. 10. olim Faurian. veil. xi. cent. ; Ap- pend. 2333 a. 3. olim Philiberti de la Mare, veil. xiv. cent. ; 6041 a, veil. xiv. cent. , olim Rog. de Gaigniers.
53 Among the MSS. Bibl. de la Ville de Chartres.
3^ Among the MSS. Bibl. de la Ville de Laon, 345, veil, folio, xiii. cent,
veil. 4to, xv. cent.
3* Colgan alludes to it, as belonging to the
"'
35 Among the MSS. Bibl. de Cambrai,
Carthusians of this city. See
197, in vol, xxii. ; but, it is doubtful— although probable from Mr. Bindon's de- scription—that all of these refer to St. Bren- dan the Navigator. One or more might refer to St. Brendan, Abbot of Birr.
39 See also, MS. Bibl. Ducum Burgundioe, S638, XV. cent.
4" At the commencement, and also at the end, of the MS. , may be found the following note : " Pertinet Monasterio Canonnor. Re- gularum. in Bethleem, ppe Lovanium.
4' The contents of the volume are given, upon the first fly-leaf, and they are as follows, viz. : 1 160. It navigatio S. Brendani abbatis ad diversas insulas ; 1 162. It epistola Presbi- teri Joannis imperatoris majoris; 1 163. It itinerarium Joannis de Mandeville militis. The initial letters of the four different pieces are about two inches in diameter, while orna- mented in vermilion and pink colours, but not very neatly executed, and the observation applies to the penmanship. Mandeville and Tungdalus are in the text styled " milites. " The date, or the name of the scribe, could notbefoundintheMS. ; but,bycompari- son with MSS. of a known date, it appears as old as the " Inventaire " states, namely,
the close of the fifteenth century.
4- See vol. xxii. , fol. 89.
"3 See "Proceedings of the Royal Irish
Academy,'' vol. iii. , pp. 477 to 452.
44 Held, on the 24th of May, 1847.
45 See L. Tachet de Barneval's " Historic
Legendaire de I'lrlande," chap, xxii. , pp. 246, 247.
4* His name is unknown but, he was pro- ;
bably an ecclesiastic, as the character of his narrative and his style of relating it indi-
cate.
47 This poem begins with these lines s—
" Donna Aaliz la reine,
Par qui valdrat lei divine. "
In Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, for 1836, vol. xxxix. , No. ccxlviii. , under the heading "The Anglo-Norman Trouveres,"
appear English translations of the foregoing, as taken from the Cotton Library copy, classed Vespasian, B. x. The following rendering of the opening lines—forming a very fair specimen of the remaining portion
—is "
here submitted : —
Lady Adelais, who queen
By the grace of heav'n hath been Ycrowned, who this land hath blest With peace, and wholesome laws,
and rest,
Both by King Henry's stalwart might And by thy counsels mild and
right ;
For these, their holy benison MaytheApostlesshedeachone
A thousand, thousand-fold upon
thee :
And, since thy mild command hath
won me
To turn this goodly historic
Into romanz, and carefully
To write it out, and sootlily tell What to St. Brandan erst befell,
At thy command I undertake
The task right gladly, but will make No light or silly pleasantrie.
Unfit in such grave work to be. "
—See pp. 807, 808.
——
May i6. ] LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS.
these. It is the work of Michael O'Clery. Among the Burgundian MSS. 39 vol. ii. , there is a middle size folio, in the Latin language, bound in wood, covered with calf-skin, and ornamented with brass clasps. '° This volume is intituled, in the classing of the old library, to which it belonged, as follows: " Naviga- tio S. Brendani ad varias Insulas cum aliis—Beth. Louv. 48. "4' Tiie first leaf of this MS. is vellum, then follow four leaves of paper, and then two of vellum, and so on, until the eightieth, which is of vellum, also, and which is the last in the volume. Again, among the Burgundian Library Manuscripts, Bruxelles, there is a dissertation, "De S. Columba et Brendano. "42 The foregoing have been noticed, by Mr. Bindon,43 at a meeting of the Royal Irish Academy. ''4
Various readings are to be found, in the different Manuscript Lives, which are scattered in so many places; and, even >he order and subject matters for narrative have been modified, or changed, according to the taste or fancy of composers and scribes. If we apply to the Navigation of St. Brendon, the ordinary critical analysis of poems, remarks a French writer, it will not be difficult to find, in the mystic and marvellous parts of that legend, the origin and historic realities of a monastic and spiritual Odyssey, so celebrated among the romances of Ireland. ^? An Anglo-Norman bard 4^ produced this cele- brated voyage in French, long before the hermit of Hampede, Robert of Gloucester, Gower, or Chaucer, attempted English versification, and a distinc- tive English literature. It seems to have been composed, at the request of
Auliz la Bele,47 or the beautiful Adelais of Louvain, the Queen of Henry I. ,
393
LIVES OF THE IRISH SAINTS. [May i6.
KingofEngland,andsurnamedBeauclerc. VariousActsofdifferentIrishcon- temporaneous saints serve to throw a reflected light on the history of St. Bren- dan and his time. Among others, Augustin Magraidin^^ prepared a Life of St. Brendan,intheIslandofAllSaints,LoughRee,countyofLongford. Jaco- bus de Voragine/9 who was born about a. d. 1230, and who became Provin- cial of the Dominicans and Bishop of Genoa—the native city of Columbus gave St. Brendan's land a special prominence, in the thirteenth century, by writing his " Golden Legend. "s° In the version of it, published by Wynkyn de Worde, in 1483, we find the " Lyfe of Saynt Brandon. "5' Also, John Capgravehasabriefaccountofoursaint,5^ alsoJohnofTriltenheim,53John Bale,=* Archbishop Ussher,55 Thomas Dempster,s^ and Sir James Ware. 57 From that list,^^ belonging to Colgan, we can ascertain, that he left Acts of St.
Brendan, of Clonfert, which were intended for publication, at the i6th of May. In his published work, he promised, also, to treat diffusely, on the subject of Brendan's celebrated voyage. 59 The Bollandists have published some accountofthissaint,^°andalsoBishopTanner. ^' AnabridgmentofhisActs has been issued by Bishop Challenor. ^' To distinguish him from his name- sake, the Abbot of Birr, we find in the Rev. Alban Butler's work the name of St. Brendan, the Elder, Abbot of Fearta, or Clonfert, on the River Shan- non, at the i6th of May. ^3 The Rev. John Lanigan, D. D. , has devoted some pages of his history to the elucidation of St. Brendan's Acts. ^'^ The Life of St. Brendan, the Navigator, has been issued, in an old English form, by the Percy Society. ^s This was first issued fi-om the press,^^ by Wynkyn de Worde,^7 and its composition is ascribed toRobertof Gloucester. Again, Mon. Achille Jubinal ^^ and L. Tachet de Barneval ^^ have given us, in somewhat different
t*^ He departed this life A. D. 1405. Maii xvi, De S. Brendano sev Brandano "'Jacobus De Voragine was born, about Abbate Cluainfertensi in Hibernia. This
394
A. D. 1230, at Voraggio, and he died on the 14th of July, 1298, at Genoa. See notices of his life, in M. C. Dr. Hoefer's "Nouvelle Biographie Generale," tome xlvi. , pp. 452, 453-
5° In the edition of this work, a. d. 1 5 19, I cannot find any mention of St. Brendan.
5' See fol. 357.
5' In Legenda Sanctorum Anglire.
53 See " De Viris Illustribus Ordinis S.
treatise is a selection from various accounts, in two chapters, and in fifteen paragraphs, edited by P'athcr Goilefiid Ilenschenn, pp. 599 to 603.
°' See " Bibliotheca Brilannico-IIibcr- nica," &c. , p. 123.
'^ See " liritaimia Sancta," part i. , pp. 289, 290.
*3 See " Lives of the Fathers, Martyrs and other principal Saints," vol. v. , May xvi.
*' See " Ecclesiastical History of Ire- land," vol. i. , chap. vi. ,sect. viii. , p. 288, antl 5^ See " Scriptorum inustrinm Majoris nn. 84, 85, p. 292 Also, vol. ii. , chap, x. ,
Benedicti," cap. xxxi.
Brytannice," &c. , Cent, xiv. , num. Ixxviii. , p. 236.
55 See " Britannicarum Ecclcsiarum Anti-
quitates," cap. xiv. , p. 277, and cap. xvii. ,
pp. 451, 471, 474, 476, 494, and Index Clironologicus, p. 532.
5* See " Historia Ecclesiaiica Gentis Scotorum," tomus i. , lib. ii. , sect. 143, pp. 81, 82.
57 See " De Scriptoribus Ilibernix," lib. i. , cap. ii. , pp. 12, 13. Also, "De Ililjernia et Antiquitatibus ejus Disquisiiiones," cap. xxvi. , p. 215.
5^ "Catalogus Actuum Sanctorum quce MS. habentur, ordinc Mcnsium et Die- rum. "
59 See "Acta Sanctorum IIibcrni;c," Martii xxii. De Egressionc Familix' S. Brendani, cap. xiv. , p. 724.
'^ See "Acta Sanctorum," tomus iii. ,
sect, vii. , with notes 91 to 133, pp. 28 to 41. *5 See vol. xiv. Edited by Wright, in 1844. Its title is "St. Brandan ; A Me- dieval Legend of the Sea," in English V'erse and Prose, Preface, pp. v. to viii. , Melricul Life, pp. I to 34, Prose Life, pp. 35 to 56,
with nn. pp. 57 to 63. ^ It begins with ;
" Seint Brendan the holi man was zund of Irlande :
Monck he was of hard lyf as I vudcr- stonde. "
It ends with:—"Nou God us bringe to tlnilke joye that his soule wende to. Amen. " *"' A copy of this edition, su|)poscd to be unifjuc, is in the Grenville Library, British
Museum.
'" This work is intituled :—" St. Br. \n-
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395
forms, the highly-romantic narrative of St. Brendan's Navigation in search ofthePromisedLand. Thisrenownedvoyage,sohappilyversified,7°bya distinguished Irish poet, Denis Florence MacCarthy, forms the subject of a noble composition,7' that has very few more interesting competitors in the English language, both for theme and treatment. ^* The Rev. W. J. Rees has published the Acts of St. Brendan, in Latin,73 with an English translation. 74 An account of this saint will be found, in the works of Rev. M. J. Brenan, O. S. F. ;75 Rev. Dr. James Henthorn Todd,7'5 Le Vicomte Hersart de la Ville- marque,77Rev. RobertKing,? ^BishopForbes,79andEugene0'Curry. ^° In the Dutch language was lately published, the Legend of Sanct Brandan,^' in various texts, prose and metre. A learned Preface introduces the reader to the first Tract in Latin, " Peregrinatio Sancti Brandani Abbatis. " Next follows, Von Sente Brandan, in Dutch rhymed stanza,^^ of five lines to each stanza ; afterwards. Van dem hilgen sunte Brandan, also similarly rhymed
f'^ a prose Tract follows, Von Sand Brandon ein hiibsch leiblich lesen, was er wunders auf dem mor erfaren hat. ^'* These are all illustrated with researchful and learned notes, by the editor. The Most Rev. Patrick F. Moraa collected and published several Latin Acts of St. Brendan,^^ in 1872, and among the rest is A. Jubinal's version, ^^ collated with several other correlative MSS. ^7 Also,noticesofthissaintaregivenbyRev. JamesRose,^^M. Le Dr. Hoefer,^9 Rev. S. Baring-Gould,9° in the Bibliographie Universelle, Ancienne et Moderne,? ' in the " Imperial Dictionary of Universal Biogra-
daine's Legende Latine avec nne Trailuction inedite en Prose et en Poesie Romanes," pub- liees par A. Jubinal, A Paris, 1836, 8vo.
*' . See his " Histoire Legendaire de I'lr- lande,"chap. xxiii. Voyage de Saint Bren- dan, Paris, 1856, 8vo.
1° It was first published as a contribution to the " Dubhn University Magazine," in the hey-day of its celebrity as a first-class period- cal, now nearly forty years ago.
7' The latest version of this fine poem, is in the collected "Poems,"by Denis Florence MacCarthy, edited with a Preface by his son John MacCarthy, pp. 83 to 105, Dublin, 1882. cr. 8vo.
7- It is given under six distinct head- ings : —I. The Vocation. II. Ara of the Saints. III. The Voyage, iv. The Buried City. V. The Paradise of Birds, vi. The Promised Land.
73 See "Lives of the Cambro-British Saints," pp. 251 to 254.
''' See ibid. , pp. 575 to 579.
75 See "Ecclesiastical History of Ire- land," Sixth Century, chap, i. , pp. 57, 58, Duffy's edition, Dublin, 1864.
76 See " St. Patrick, Apostle of Ireland," chap, iii. , n. i, pp. 459, 460.
'7 See " La Lcgende Celtique et la Poesie en Irlande, en Cambric, et en Bretagne," sect, v. , pj). liv. to Ixiii. , Paris, 1864, 8vo.
382, and Appendix xli. , p. 533.
^' It is intituled : " Sanct Brandan.
