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1. 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

2. 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

3. Harley MS 4347

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.

4. 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

5. 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

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 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.

9. 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.

10. 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.