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Preface. XI
of the Duke of Devonshire, has been fully described in the
preface to Lives of Saints from the Booh of Lismore, Oxford,
1890. The ten fragments of the Acallam which it contains
are in if. 159 — 197. The first fragment corresponds with 11,
1-3975: the second with 11. 4078-5639: the third with
11. 5940-6096: the fourth with 11. 6400—6446: the fifth with
11. 6494—6625: the sixth with 11. 6954—7125: the seventh with
11. 7138-7356: the eighth with Ih 7398—7546: the ninth with
11. 7565—7596: the tenth with 11. 7883—8005.
Lines 1-2043, 2236—2400, 3521—3717, 3910-3975,
7565—7596, 7986—8005, not being in Laud 610, are printed infra.
The Lismore L-agments have been edited in Silva Gadelica,
London 1892, pp. 94 — 233, with lamentable inaccuracy. In
the Revue Celtique XIV 329—331, XV 372-382, Kuno Meyer
has mentioned some of the textual errors in this edition. I
collated it carefully with the Book of Lismore, and it is not
too much to say that, of the 3260 hues (or thereabouts)
which it contains, hardly a single line correctly represents the ms.
though many of the deviations, such as the bisection of compound
verbs, and the wrong omission or insertion of marks of length
or marks of aspiration, are comparatively unimportant. On the
other hand, the translation given in vol. II, pp. 101 — 265
deserves high praise. So excellent is it, on the whole ^), as to
justify me in dispensing with a version of the greater part of the
text printed in this volume, and in giving translations only of the
parts of the Acallam not found in the Book of Lismore.
Extracts from the Lismore copy are given in O'Curry's
Lectures, pp. 594 — 597, and in his Manners and Customs, III.
pp. 12, 169, 305, 316, 325, 328, 361, 379.
IV. The copy in the Franciscan monastery. Merchants'
Quay, Dubhn. This has been noticed by Zimmer, Gott. Gel. Anz.
1887, s. 192. It contains 84 pages, of which the first four and
1) In the Bevue Celtique XV 117—119 K. Meyer has corrected about
thirty-eight wrong renderings, and to these I have added some fifty in the
notes and glossary to the present edition.