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032-002045828 Language Irish Level [40] File

1. Harley MS 432

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 432
Title:
An Senchas Már
Scope & Content:
A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 146-47. Contents: f. 1*r: A paper leaf, containing brief and inaccurate notes on the manuscript's presumed age, and the titles of other Irish manuscripts in the Harley collection...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
c. 1578
Extent:

1 volume

2. Harley MS 1023

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1023
Title:
Gospel-book
Scope & Content:
This is a 12th-century illuminated Gospel-book with glosses in Irish and Latin, and added texts in Latin. Its close similarities in text, script and decoration with the Gospels of Mael Brigte (Harley MS 1802) and the Book of Armagh (Dublin, Trinity College Library, MS 52) both made in Armagh, su...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1st half of the 12th century
Extent:

A parchment codex

3. Harley MS 546

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546
Title:
Medical miscellany
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes translations of and elaborations on Latin medical treatises and recipes as follows: Walter Agilon, 'De dosibus medicinarum' in the translation by Cormac MacDonlevy for Dermot MacDonall (ff. 1r-11r); Medical compendium relating to ailments of the body (ff. 12r-19v, 37r-...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
1 volume

4. Harley MS 3756

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 3756
Title:
Material relating to the lands of Gerald fitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare
Scope & Content:
Material concerning the land and possessions of Gerald fitzGerald, 9th Earl of Kildare. A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 149-55. Contents: f. 1r: Blank. f. 1v: A note that the book was borrowed from a Mr R. D...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

5. Harley MS 4347

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 4347
Title:
The Aphorisms of Hippocrates and other maxims
Scope & Content:
The manuscript includes: 1. Hippocrates, Aphorismata (ff. 1r-37r); 2. Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of the Lilium Medicinae (ff. 37r-41r); 3. A collection of definitions and maxims (ff. 42v-43r); 4. A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross (f. 43v); 5...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
44 folios.

6. Harley MS 1921

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1921
Title:
A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1r-80r: A catalogue of alphabets and specimens of handwriting, including 2 printed page fragments on the topic of writing (ff. 51, 80).
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

7. Harley MS 2354

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 2354
Title:
A grammatical work in Irish; a grammar of German based on John Clay's works
Scope & Content:
Contents: ff. 1v-14v: an anonymous grammatical work in Irish. ff. 15r: 44r: a grammar of German based on John Clay's works.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
17th century
Extent:
1 volume

8. Harley MS 585

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585
Title:
Medical miscellany including Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, and 'Lacnunga'
Scope & Content:
Contents include translations of: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants) (ff. 1r-101v) including Old English translations of two Latin herbals: Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium, imperfect at the beginning (ff. 1r-66v); Pseudo-Dioscorides, De herbis femininis and Curae herbarum (ff. 66v-101v); ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
1 volume

9. Harley MS 5280

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 5280
Title:
Collection of Irish historical, mythological and religious texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of Irish texts from the Ulster, Finn and mythological cycles. Also some religious and glossarial material. A detailed catalogue description is provided in O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, II, pp. 298-323. Contents: ff. 1-10 are later inserted paper leaves. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume

10. Harley MS 1802

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1802
Title:
Gospels of Máel Brigte
Scope & Content:
This manuscript, known as the Gospels of Máel Brigte, is a Latin Gospel-book with additional texts and extensive marginal and interlinear glosses in Latin and Irish, especially in the Gospel of St Matthew. The glosses used to be associated with the cathedral school in Paris (following Glunz, 'Th...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1138
Extent:
1 volume