lta frislige,' &c., ending: 'deasgaidh aineolais
imreasain. Ni d'agallaim Cormaic [et] Cairpre coruici sin.'

=Lec=, _i.e._ the Book of Lecan, a vellum of the fifteenth
century. The leaves on which the Triads are found are now
bound up with the codex H. 2. 17 belonging to Trinity
College. It is a complete copy beginning on p. 183_b_:
'Ceand _erenn_ Ardmacha,' and ending on p. 184_b_:
'ceitheora aipgitri baisi baig connailbi gell imreasain.'[1]
=N=, _i.e._ 23. N. 10, a paper MS. written in the year
1575,[2] pp. 98-101. A complete copy, the gap between pp.
100 and 106 being made up by pp. 7_a_-10_b_ of the vellum
portion of the manuscript.

[1] By an oversight I have referred to this MS. sometimes by Lec and
sometimes by H. In some cases both Lec and H will be found quoted in the
variants. The same MS. is always meant.

[2] As appears from the following colophon on p. 101: 'Oraoit uaim ar do
lebor a hOedh in c_ed_luan iar n-aurtach Johannes. Baile Tibhaird ar bla
maige mo mendad scribne hi farrad Se(a)ain hi Maoilconari. Mese
(Dubthach) do scrib in ball soin da derpiris [et] rlae. Anno domini 1575.
Guroiuh maith ag_a_t.

=H=[Prime], _i.e._ H. 1. 15, pp. 946-957. This is a paper
manuscript written by Tadhg Tiorthach O Neachtain in 1745.
It is a complete copy, with copious glosses in Modern Irish,
the more important of which are printed below on pp. 36-43.
At the end O Neachtain has added the following:--'Tri
subhailce diadha: creidhemh, dothchus agus gradh. Tri a
n-aon: athair, mac, spiorad naomh, da raibh gloir, mola[dh]
[et] umhlacht tre bith sior tug re don bhochtan bocht so.
Aniu an 15 do bhealltuine 1745. Tadhg O Nechtuin mac Seain a
n-aois ceithre bliadhna deag et tri fithchit roscriob na
trithibh [.s]uas.'

These manuscripts have, on the whole, an identical text, though they all
occasionally omit a triad or two; and the order of the single triads
varies in all of them. They have all been used in constructing a
critical text, the most important variants being given in the
foot-notes. The order followed is in the main that of the Yellow Book of
Lecan.

There are at least three other manuscripts containing copies of the
Triads. One of them I discovered in the Stowe collection after the text
had been printed off. It is a paper quarto now marked 23. N. 27,
containing on fo. 1_a_-7_b