"Scholaticat" [decorative capital S ] - thought to be the earliest known representation of Scholasticat from the apocryphal Vita Sancti Finnei Radii (Life of St. Finneus the Radiant), as mentioned in the apocryphal Liber Canis Parvi Caerulei [Book of the Little Blue Dog]. Collectively, these two lost books are known as the "Blarney Manuscripts."
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