_for_ ipsi _read_ ipsum. Same page, line 37, _after_
paciencie _insert_ nostre. Page 214, footnote 3, note that the first
"uas" is struck out. Same page, footnote 7, the first "sanctus" is
expuncted.]

[Footnote 6: _Zeitschrift fuer Celtische Philologie_, vol. v, p. 429.]

[Footnote 7: _Lives of Saints from the Book of Lismore_, Oxford, 1890,
pp. 117-134.]

[Footnote 8: _Four Ancient Books of Wales_, i, 124.]

[Footnote 9: _Descriptive Catalogue of Materials for the History of
Great Britain,_ vol. i, p. 102.]

[Footnote 10: Forbes. _Kalendars_, s. v. Queranus; Bollandist _Acta_.]

* * * * *

A HARMONY OF THE FOUR LIVES OF SAINT CIARAN

To the incidents of Ciaran's life VG prefixes--

I. _The Homiletic Introduction_ (VG I)

not found in any of the Latin Lives.

=A.= Ciaran was born A.D. 515. The first section of his life, his
Childhood and Boyhood, may have covered the first ten or twelve years
of his life--say in round numbers 515-530. Fifteen incidents of this
period are recorded, which are found in the Lives as under--

LA LB LC VG
II. _The origin and birth of Ciaran; the
wizard's prophecies_ 1 1 1 2
III. _How Ciaran raised the steed of Oengus
from death_ 2 2 2 3
IV. _How Ciaran turned water into honey_ 3 3 3 4
V. _How Ciaran was delivered from a
hound_ 6 9 4 5
VI. _How Ciaran and his instructor conversed,
though distant from one another_ 4 - - 6
VII. _Ciaran and the fox_ - - - 7
VIII. _How Ciaran spoiled his mother's
dye-stuff_ - - - 8
IX. _How Ciaran restored a calf which a
wolf had devoured_ 5 8 5 9
X. _How Ciaran was delivered from
robbers_ 7 - 6 10
XI. _How Ciaran gave a gift of cattle_ 8 - - -
XII. _How Ciaran gave a gift of a
plough-coulter_ 9 - - -
XIII. _How Ciaran gave a gift of an ox_ 10 - - -
XIV. _How Ciaran gave the king's cauldron
to beggars and was enslaved_ 11 - 7 11
XV. _How Ciaran reproved his mother_ 13