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It contains a metrical commentary on portions of Scripture expressed in 10, 000 lines of dreary verse. The manuscript is incomplete, and is estimated to have contained originally 80, 000 lines. Orm was a very dull poet, but he was a scholar and a gram- matical precisian, a fact which makes his poem of great value to the philologist. In appearance the manuscript is remarkable. It is ^^Titten in a rude hand on long, narrow, irregular strips of parchment. Probably it is in the author's autograph. ...A very precious French manuscript is the Chan- son de Roland (MS. Dighy 23), the oldest and best of the chansons de geste, which, from the magnifi- cence of its diction and its exaltation of patriotism, has been called the Iliad of the Middle Ages. The Bodleian MS. Is the most ancient copy of the poem extant. But the illuminated manuscripts form the chief attraction of the exhibit-cases. The Irish school is represented by a copy of the Gospels written by Mac Riagoil, abbot of Birr, who died in 820 (MS.
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