It was the late Herr Mone, Archivdirektor at Carlsruhe, who discovered the Gaelic poems in the MS. belonging to St. Paul in Carinthia, and sent the first verse of the first of these poems to Dr. Reeves. Thereafter Dr. Whitley Stokes wrote him requesting to be favoured with the remainder, with which request he not only complied, but also sent two other extracts from the same codex, and a letter dated Carlsruhe, January 24th, 1859. There are in all five short Gaelic poems or fragments in the MS. The first, of eight stanzas, is in praise of Aedh, son of Diarmad, and has been translated by Eugene O’Curry. We give here simply the first and last verses:— Aedh great to institute hilarity, Aedh anxious (desirous) to dispense festivity, The Straight Rod, the most beautiful, Of the hills of cleared Ro-er-enn. At ale-drinking, poems are sung By companies among people’s houses Sweet-singing bards announce In pools of ale the name of Aedh. The next to be quoted is part of a longer poem found in the Books of Leinster, Ballymote, Glendaloch, Lismore, and a Bodleian MS. The copy from the Book of Leinster is given in full by Dr. Whitley Stokes in his _Goidelica_, but here are the two quatrains of it in the Carinthian codex:— He is a bird round which a trap shuts, He is a leaky bark in dangerous peril, He is an empty vessel, he is a withered tree, Who so doth not the will of the King above. He is pure gold, he is a heaven round the sun, He is a vessel of silver full of wine, He is an angel, he is wisdom of saints, Every one who doth the will of the King. The third poem, Dr. Stokes says, is exceedingly obscure. It seems to mean— There remains a fort in Tuain Inbir ... with its stars last night, with its sun, with its moon. Gobhan made that: let its story be perceived by you: my heartlet, God of heaven, he is the thatcher that thatched it. A house wherein thou gettest not moisture; a place wherein thou fearest not spear-points. More radiant it is than a garden, and it without an _udnacht_ around it. Another of the pieces in this Carinthian MS. is of a very different order. A monk in a humorous and facetious strain, according to Professor Zimmer, contrasts his own serious studies with the very different pursuits of another person whom he calls Pan Gurban (or Panqur ban, Windisch), a Slavonic name, meaning, as Zimmer thinks, “Mr. Hunchback.” Omitting the forty-two Gaelic documents from the 168, we have 126 remaining which have been written before the year 1600, and these deal with a great variety of subjects: religion, law, medicine, astronomy, grammar, history, and legendary history.