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191. Harley MS 546, ff 20r-35r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 20r-35r
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Medical compendium; imperfect. Incipit: '[T]indscnum ar tus do frenísis ocus adeir gailen cofuiled da hearnuil uirre', explicit: 'o tréighinus fada no o folmugad follus ele amail ata', occasionally introduced by a title in Latin and followed by the catchword 'flux'. The text relates to variuos ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
15 folios. f. 36r-36v is blank

192. Harley MS 546, ff 37r-47r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 37r-47r
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Medical compendium relating to various diseases (forms one compendium with texts on ff. 12r-19v and 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 disea...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1549
Extent:
11 folios.

193. Harley MS 546, ff 47v-48r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 47v-48r
Title:
Text relating to the cure of flatulence and of worms in the stomach
Scope & Content:
Text relating to the cure of flatulence and of worms in the stomach, excerpt, incipit: 'Dentur clisteri ar tus sa cas so le neitib ana mbia brisidh gaotmuireachta ocus murbhtha / na piast', explicit: 'ocus do pudur sinsir ocus biadha ínm / olta ele et cetera'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

194. Harley MS 546, ff 49r-54r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 49r-54r
Title:
Medical compendium
Scope & Content:
Medical compendium relating to various diseases (forms one compendium with texts on ff. 12r-19v and ff. 37r-47r). 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 d...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
6 folios.

195. Harley MS 546, ff 59r-68r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 59r-68r
Title:
Medical compendium relating to fevers
Scope & Content:
Medical compendium relating to fevers; incipit: '[T]indscum and so do leigeas fiabruis tercsiana', explicit: 'ocus isi sin uinnimint na gilcaidi on / denam coitcind et reliqua'. The text is almost entirely based on the Irish translation of Gaddesden's Rosa Anglica and offers a condensed versio...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
9 folios.

196. Harley MS 546, ff 68r-69r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 68r-69r
Title:
Treatise on the plague
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the plague; incipit: 'Ad preservandum corpus a pestilensia .i.e. do coimed an cuirp a naimsir na plaga', explicit: 'Item balad mumia do gabail / a naimsir na plaga ocus is tarbach sin'. The Latin source of the present treatise has not been identified.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

197. Harley MS 546, ff 70v-71r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 70v-71r
Title:
Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5: De urinis (extract)
Scope & Content:
Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5, De urinis, extract; incipit: 'Condiciones Bernardi Gordonia de urína .i.e. cuirid Bernard .9. cuingill .x. / annso ar an fuál', explicit: 'an fual do beith ísil isna heslaintib geara ocus ard isna heaslaintib rigni et reliqua'. The text is an a...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

198. Harley MS 546, ff 71r-72r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 71r-72r
Title:
Treatise on urine
Scope & Content:
Treatise on urine; imperfect, incipit: 'Tria sunt in urina .i.e. atait tri neithe is eigin don liaig / dfecain do leith an fuail', explicit 'na ichtar ocus na uachtar ocus isin region meadhonac'. The Latin source of this treatise has not been identified; it survives in at least four other MSS. da...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

199. 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

200. Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:
Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:
Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
63 folios.