...he closes his manuscript with a pathetic cry for himself — " Be it on the conscience of everyone, in whom shall be for grace the booklet with splendour,...blessing on the soul of the wretchock who wrote it." The BOOK was, undoubtedly, the property of the Celtic monastery of Deir, and it thus takes us back...

...of the scribe. In this particular instance it happens to be in Gaelic, and may be rendered thus : " Be it on the conscience of every one in whom shall...splendour, that he give a blessing on the soul of the poor wretch (truagain) who wrote it " (" Forchubus caichduini (M 955) G imbia arrath inlebran colli...