_ a copy of the Triads, followed on fo.
7_b_-19_a_ by a glossed copy of the _Tecosca Cormaic_. It was written in
1714 by Domnall (or Daniel) O Duind mac Eimuinn. Its readings agree
closely with those of N. In Sec. 237, it alone, of all manuscripts, gives
an intelligible reading of a corrupt passage. For _cia fochertar
im-muir, cia berthair hi tech fo glass dodeime a tiprait oca mbi_, it
reads: _cia focearta im-muir, cia beirthear hi tech fo glass no do
theine, dogeibther occan tiprait_, 'though it be thrown into the sea,
though it be put into a house under lock, or into fire, it will be found
at the well.' In Sec. 121 for _cerdai_ it reads _cerd_; in Sec. 139 it has
_rotioc_ and _rotocht_; in Sec. 143 for _gruss_ its reading is _gris_; in
Sec.153 it has _aibeuloit_ for _eplet_; in Sec. 217 _tar a n-eisi_ for _dia
n-eisi_; in Sec. 218 _lomradh_(twice) for _lobra_ and _indlighidh_ for _i
n-indligud_; in Sec. 219 it has the correct reading _eiric_, and for
_dithechte_ it reads _ditheacht_; in Sec. 220 it reads _fri aroile_ for
_fria ceile_; in Sec. 223 after _ile_ it adds _imchiana_; in Sec. 224 it
reads _gris brond .i. galar_; in Sec. 229 for _meraichne_ it has
_mearaigheacht_; in Sec. 235 it has _mhamus_ for _mam_; in Sec. 236 _Maig
Hi_ for _Maig Lii_; and for _co ndeirgenai in dam de_ it reads _co nderna
in dam fria_.

Another copy, written in 1836 by Peter O'Longan, formerly in the
possession of the Earls of Crawford, now belongs to the Rylands Library,
Manchester, where it was found by Professor Strachan, who kindly copied
a page or two for me. It is evidently a very corrupt copy which I have
not thought worth the trouble of collating.

Lastly, there is in the Advocates' Library a copy in a vellum manuscript
marked Kilbride III. It begins on fo. 9_b_^2 as follows:--'Treching
breath annso. Ceann Eirind Ardmacha.' I hope to collate it before long,
and give some account of it in the next number of this series.

In all these manuscripts the Triads either follow upon, or precede, or
are incorporated in the collections of maxims and proverbial sayings
known as _Tecosca Cormaic_, _Auraicept Morainn_, and _Senbriathra
Fithil_, the whole forming a body of early Irish gnomic literature which
deserves editing in its entirety. It is clear, however, that the Triads
do not originally belong to any of these texts. They had a separate
origin, and form a collection by themselves. This is also shown by the
fact that the Book of Leins