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Life of St. Patrick

19th cent. Paper. 22 × 16.5. 55 ff. of which the first 2 and last 26 are blank. Written pages have scribal numbering 1-53. Scribe: Pádruic Stúndún, Cork, 1895. Ornamental capitals. Bound in buckram. Cf. RIA 24 C 52 for a similar copy by the same scribe. Purchased for 10 shillings in 1932 from `Mac Manus'.

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1 Title-page: `Beatha Naoímh Pádruig tógtha ó shean-leabhar do láimhsgríobhadh go snasta, annsan mblíadhain d'aoís Chríost 1798, agus atá anois aithsgríobhtha ag Pádruic Stúndún, a gCorcaigh annsan bhfómhar, A.D. 1895.'

2 Note in English: `The following Life of St. Patrick is taken from a manuscript copy of it, written A.D. 1798, the property of The Rev. Father McKenna, C.M. of St. Vincent's Convent, Sunday's Well, Cork; being one of a series of eloquent sermons preached by a clergyman to his congregation. Now transcribed carefully by Patrick Stanton, Cork, August 1895'.

3 Beatha Phádruig sonn. `Ecce sacerdos magnus qui in diebus suis placuit Deo.' Beg. As ró mhór ghoillios orm am choinsías, a cháirde, anmhacht, agus luíghead an ímpídhe. Ends (p. 53) maille ré hímpídhe ár Naomh Phátrúin Pádruig agus beannachadh Dé na nuilechómhachda - Ann ainm an Athar agus an Mhic, agus an Spioraid Naomh. Amen. `Críoch.'