[333] Ib. 247 sqq.
[334] Cp. Columbanus, Epist. (M.G.H., Epp. iii.) 157, and the notice in the Würzburg MS. of St. Matthew, quoted by Zimmer, Nenn. Vind. 252, note (Scheps, Die ältesten Evangelienhandschriften der Würzburger Bibliothek, 27).
[335] A genealogy of Brito is ascribed by Gilla Coemgin to senior nobilis Guanach, and Todd pointed out that the reference was to the Liber Cuanach (Zimmer, Nenn. Vind. 250-1). Calling attention to the notice in Ann. Ult. s.a. 616, usque hunc annum scripsit Isidorus cronicon suum, Zimmer observes that the old recension (up to 616) of Isidore’s chronicle was known in Ireland, and conjectures that its arrival may have been the stimulus which prompted the work of Cuana.
[336] An older authority, Maucteus, was quoted by Cuana (Ann. Ult. s.a. 471).
[337] Dr. MacCarthy quotes appropriately the 20th canon of the Council of Milevi, A.D. 416.
[338] See Migne, P.L. 87, 969.
[339] For such entries in the blank spaces of a Paschal Table, compare, e.g. the Paschale Campanum (Chron. Min., ed. Mommsen, i. 745 sqq.).
[340] Mr. Phillimore’s suggestion that cum is a misrendering of the Old-Welsh cant = by, seems improbable, as the notice is not likely to be a translation. I should say that cum is simply a dittogram of the last syllable of dominicum, and has ousted a.
[341] We are indeed enabled to infer that before the tenth century A.D. 457 had been maintained by some to be the date of Patrick’s death.
[342] An examination of the dates in the sixth century suggests that the entries of contemporary events did not begin before the seventh. Certainly the erroneous date of the battle of Mons Badonis was a late insertion.