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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

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

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.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, f 43v
Title:: A text on the Invention of the Holy Cross
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Incipit inventio sancte crucis .i. tri bliadhna deg air fhicheat ar...'. According to Flower (1926) this text was associated with the Irish Fierabras.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 1 folio.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 1r-37r
Title:: Hippocrates, Aphorismata
Scope & Content:: The Aphorisms of Hippocrates in seven books in Latin and Irish. The Latin version is that of Nicholaus Leonicenus, the Italian physician and humanist (b. 1428, d. 1524), which was first printed in 1524. Each Latin aphorism is followed by an Irish translation.
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 37 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 37r-41r
Title:: Bernard de Gordon, A series of definitions from the chapter headings of Bernard de Gordon's Lilium Medicinae, in Latin and Irish (Books I, II.1,2), imperfect
Scope & Content:: Incipit: 'Febris est calor innaturalis mutatus in ignem'; ends imperfectly: 'ised is tuitim fhuilt ann flux min an fuilt gan chion lenda.' A scribal note follows: 'Ataim triamaoinech o'rér' (f. 41r).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 5 folios.

Reference (shelfmark):: Harley MS 4347, ff 42v-43r
Title:: A collection of definitions and maxims, incipit: 'Doctrina est propositura rei demonstraciones partes explicans...'
Scope & Content:: The manuscript title of this collection reads: 'Axiomata quaedam philosophica' (added by a later hand).
Collection Area:: Western Manuscripts
Languages:: Irish and Latin
Date Range:: 4th quarter of the 16th century
Extent:: 2 folios.

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