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1. Add MS 30512

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Add MS 30512
Title:
Collection of religious, historical and legendary material in Irish
Scope & Content:
A collection of theological texts in verse and prose. A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, ii, pp. 470-505. Contents: ff. 1a recto-1f verso: Inserted, modern paper leaves. An imperfect list of contents in English by Eugene...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Arundel MS 313

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Arundel MS 313
Title:
Collection of medical tracts, notes and excerpts
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical tracts, notes and excerpts from various sources including Avicenna, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Hali-Abbas, Egidius and Raymundus Lullus (Ramon Llull). The manuscript was written in 1519 by the scribe Donnchadh Ó Eichthighern (Donough O'Ahiarn), whose hand also appears in A...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1519
Extent:
1 volume

3. Arundel MS 333

Reference (shelfmark):
Arundel MS 333
Title:
Collection of medical, metaphysical and physical tracts
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical, scientific and philosophical texts, in two parts: part 1, ff. 1-19; part 2, ff. 20-128. A detailed description is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 231-58. ff. 1r-5r: Tract on the pulse from Philoretus. Some of the pages are misplac...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1st quarter of the 16th century
Extent:
1 volume

4. Cotton MS Appendix LI

Reference (shelfmark):
Cotton MS Appendix LI
Title:
Computus
Scope & Content:
An Irish version of John de Pulcro Rivo's Computus manualis, with additional computistical material in Latin. For a detailed description and translation of the Irish material, see O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts (1926), I, pp. 285-327. The manuscript was badly damaged in the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1589
Extent:
1 volume

5. Egerton MS 88

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 88
Title:
Irish legal and grammatical miscellany compiled by Domhnall O Duibhdábhoirenn
Scope & Content:
Contents: A miscellany of legal and grammatical tracts, tales and a law glossary, compiled by Domhnall O Duibhdábhoirenn (Donall O'Davoren), who kept a law school in the district of Burren, County Clare. It was copied between 1564 and 1570 mainly by Domhnall and two scribes who both signed the...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English. and Irish
Date Range:
1564-1570
Extent:

1 volume

6. 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

7. 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