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.; also _Four Masters_, I., passim.

[294] Reeves, Wm., _Adamnan_, Preface, pp. xxi.–xxii.

[295] Sandys, J. E., _Companion of Latin Studies_, Article on _Palaeography_ by Sir Edward Maude Thompson, pp. 780–781.

[296] Keller, F., _Ulster Journal of Archæology_, O.S. VIII., p. 223.

[297] Keller, F., _Bilder und Schriftzuge_, Zurich, 1851, English translation _Ulster Journal of Archæology_, VIII., pp. 210–291.

[298] Lindsey, W. M., _Early Irish Minuscule Script_, Oxford, 1910.

[299] Sandys, J. E., _Companion of Latin Studies_, p. 281.

[300] Zimmer, H., _Irish Element in Mediæval Culture_, pp. 121–124.

[301] Zimmer, H., _op. cit._ p. 120.

[302] Hull, Eleanor, _Early Christian Ireland_, p. 270.

[303] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., p. 488.

[304] Coffey, George, _Guide to the Antiquities of Christian Ireland_. See illustration, p. 50.

[305] Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., p. 489.

[306] Hull, Eleanor, _Early Christian Ireland_, p. 271.

[307] Hull, E., _ibid._ Sandys in his _History of Classical Scholarship_, I., p. 453 gives 666 as the number of volumes.

[308] See Muratori, _Antiquitates Italiae_, fol. ed. I., _Dissert._ 43, pp. 493.

[309] Stokes, Margaret, _Six Months in the Appenines_, pp. 296–7.

[310] Sandys, J. E., _op. cit._ I., p. 453; Hull, Eleanor, _op. cit._ p. 272.

[311] Zimmer, H., _Irish Element in Mediæval Culture_, p. 116.

[312] Sandys, J. E., _op. cit._ I., p. 454.

[313] Sandys, J. E., _ibid._

[314] _Ibid._

[315] Jonas, _Vita Columbani_, p. 26, cited Sandys, _op. cit._ I., p. 456.

[316] Sandys, J. E., _ibid._

[317] Hull, Eleanor, _Early Christian Ireland_, p. 274.

[318] Hull, Eleanor, _op. cit._ p. 276.

[319] Zimmer, H., _op. cit._ p. 116.

[320] Sandys, J. E., _History of Classical Scholarship_, I., p. 455; Zimmer, H., _Irish Element in Mediæval Culture_, p. 116; Hull, Eleanor, _Early Christian Ireland_, p. 276.

[321] See Stokes and Strachan, _Thesaurus Palaeohibernicus_, I., pp. xiii.–xxiv., II., pp. ix.–xxv.

[322] Joyce, P. W., _Social History of Ireland_, I., pp. 430–436.

[323] Rashdall, _Universities of Europe_, I., p. 36.

[324] Leach, A. F., _The Schools of Mediæval England_, p. 48.

[325] Healy, John, _op. cit._ pp. 202–204; Joyce, P. W., _op. cit._ I., p. 432.

[326] Sigerson, George, _Bards of the Gael and Gall_, p. 45.

[327] See above