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1. 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

2. 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.

3. 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.

4. 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

5. 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.

6. 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

7. 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.

8. 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.