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1. Add MS 15403

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Add MS 15403
Title:
Collection of Irish medical material
Scope & Content:
This manuscript contains a collection of Irish medical material, concerning three classes (animal, mineral and plant), arranged alphabetically. For a detailed description of the manuscript, see O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts (1926), I, pp. 222-31. For a list of subject head...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
15th century
Extent:
1 volume

2. Add MS 15582

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Add MS 15582
Title:
Collection of medical tracts and excerpts in Irish
Scope & Content:
Medical tracts and excerpts taken from various sources. A detailed description of the Irish material is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 262-80. ff. 8r-14v: Tract derived from John of Gaddesden's Rosa Anglicana, book I, chapter 19 ('De passionibus stomachi...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
1563
Extent:
1 volume

3. Egerton MS 159

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Egerton MS 159
Title:
Collection of medical tracts in Irish
Scope & Content:
Medical tracts compiled from various sources. A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 280-85. Contents: ff. 1r-2v: Definitions taken from Bernard de Gordon's Lilium Medicinæ. ff. 3r-7r: Medical maxims and definitions...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1592
Extent:
1 volume

4. Egerton MS 1782

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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

5. Harley MS 5280

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Harley MS 5280
Title:
Collection of Irish historical, mythological and religious texts
Scope & Content:
A collection of Irish texts from the Ulster, Finn and mythological cycles. Also some religious and glossarial material. A detailed catalogue description is provided in O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, II, pp. 298-323. Contents: ff. 1-10 are later inserted paper leaves. ff....
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 16th century
Extent:

1 volume