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Some of these names are obvious enough; it is with regard to those
that are rendered more obscure by the manner in which they are
presented that the difficulty arises. The list is taken for the most
part from the fourth chapter of Montalvan's "Vida y Purgatorio de San
Patricio", but with the names singularly disconnected and misplaced.
They are turned, too, so completely into Spanish as to be scarcely
recognised. Even in Messingham's "Florilegium", where they are all
to be found, though not in one place, they are not always correctly
printed. The following attempt at identification, now made for the first
time, will be found, it is believed, to be perfectly accurate.
The first name, "Dionisio el gran Cartusiano," scarcely requires any
explanation. The work referred to, in an edition of which I have a
copy, is as follows:--
"D. Dionysii Carthusiani liber utilissimus de quatuor hominis
novissimis, etc.," Parisiis, 1551.
The account "De Purgatorio Sancti Patritii" extends from fol. 235 to fol. 237.
"Enrique Saltarense" is Henry of Saltrey, a Benedictine monk of the
Abbey of Saltrey in Huntingdonshire, who about the middle of the
twelfth century first reduced to writing the Adventures of Owain, or
Enius, in the Purgatory of St. Patrick.
Of him Messingham writes thus. Referring to his authorities, he says:--
"What you shall find under the letter B, is taken from Henry
Salteriensis, an English monk of the Cistercian order, who had been
taught most excellent Precepts of a good Life as well as good Letters
by Florentianus, an Irish bishop, and Gilbert de Luda [Louth, in
Lincolnshire], Abbot of the Cistercian Monks, who also, being himself
well instructed, used to teach others the fear of the Lord as the
beginning of wisdom.
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