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181. Egerton MS 1781

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1781
Title:
Translations of religious and epic texts, dindshenchas and other historical material
Scope & Content:
A collection of texts including religious tracts, saints' Lives, epics and historical material. A detailed catalogue description is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, I, pp. 526-45. Contents: ff. 1r-2r: Legend of the invention of the Holy Cross. Begins imperfectly...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
c. 1484-1487
Extent:
1 volume

182. Egerton MS 1782

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 1782
Title:
Collection of Irish religious, historical, mythological and legal texts in verse and prose
Scope & Content:
This volume contains a collection of religious, historical and mythological Irish texts in verse and prose, including the only extant copy of Aislinge Óenguso. The manuscript is the work of several scribes of the Ó Maolconaire, a learned family of lawyers and historians, known as also for compil...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1516-1518
Extent:
1 volume

183. Egerton MS 2899

Reference (shelfmark):
Egerton MS 2899
Title:
A Psalter in Latin, with a calendar and an Irish poem.
Scope & Content:
The Gallician version of the Psalter in Latin, with an Irish poem and a (Scottish?) calendar. A detailed description of the Irish material is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, ii, pp. 23-4. f. ii recto: Blank. f. ii verso: Note added in a later hand of the manusc...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
14th and Late 15th century
Extent:
1 item

184. Harley MS 1-7661

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 1-7661
Title:
Harley Manuscripts
Scope & Content:
Manuscripts collected by Robert Harley (d 1724) and Edward Harley (d 1741), 1st and 2nd Earls of Oxford. c 1300-c 1700. 7661 manuscripts
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Anglo-Norman, Arabic, Dutch, English, English, Middle, English, Old, French, French, Old, Georgian, German, Greek, Modern, Hebrew, Irish, Irish, Old, Italian, Latin, Slavic languages, and Turkish
Date Range:
c 1300-c 1700
Extent:
7689 items

185. 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

186. 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

187. Harley MS 546, f 55r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, f 55r
Title:
Text relating to gout and its treatment
Scope & Content:
Text relating to gout and its treatment; imperfect, incipit: 'Guta vocatur quod ad similitudinem gute ace distillat ad íunturas et cetera .i.e. as ead is guta ann do reir Platiarius, breaking at 'acht fo neart na naduire ocus fo méd an teinnis'. Another copy of the text in Additional MS 15582 (ff...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
1 folio.

188. Harley MS 546, f 57r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, f 57r
Title:
Johannes de Gaddesden, Rosa Anglica (excerpt)
Scope & Content:
Johannes de Gaddesden, Rosa Anglica, excerpt. Incipit: 'Regimen sanitatis est triplex .i.e. ataid / tri gneithe'. This is an extract from an anonymous Irish translation of the Rosa Anglica by John of Gaddesden. The excerpt is taken from the beginning of the section devoted to the stomach. Another...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
1 folio.

189. Harley MS 546, ff 1r-11r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 1r-11r
Title:
Walter Agilon, De dosibus medicinarum
Scope & Content:
Walter Agilon, De dosibus medicinarum,translated by Cormac MacDonlevy. The text is the translation into Early Modern Irish of a Latin text on simples and compounds written in the first half of the 13th century by Guatier (Walter) Agilon. According to the colophon (f. 11r) the translation was mad...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
11 folios

190. Harley MS 546, ff 12r-19v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 12r-19v
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Medical compendium relating to various diseases (forms one compendium with texts on ff. 37r-47r, 49r-54r). The text derives in part from the Irish translation of the Rosa Anglica, a medical compendium compiled around 1313 by the English physician John of Gaddesden (d. 1348/9). Among the diseases...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1549
Extent:
8 folios.