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_Pandecte, an entire Copy of the Bible_ (Vol. v., p. 557.).--Your
correspondent C. H. has noticed this word; I send you a short account of
the Irish MSS. in the Bodleian Library, which I laid some time ago before
the Royal Irish Academy, and which is printed in their _Proceedings_, vol.
v. p. 162. I have there noticed a curious work by Oengus Cele De, or Oengus
the Culdee, a writer of the eighth century, in which the word _Pandecte_
(or, as the Irish scribe spells it, _Pantecte_) is used in the same sense
as that in which Alcuin employs it, for the _Bibliotheca_, or Bible of St.
Jerome.
I have marked the passage, pp. 9, 10. of the enclosed paper, which if you
think it worth while you may insert. But perhaps it may be enough to refer
your readers to the above-mentioned volume of the _Proceedings of the Royal
Irish Academy_.