A collection of medical tracts, notes and excerpts from various sources including Avicenna, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Hali-Abbas, Egidius and Raymundus Lullus (Ramon Llull). The manuscript was written in 1519 by the scribe Donnchadh Ó Eichthighern (Donough O'Ahiarn), whose hand also appears in A...
Collection of medical, metaphysical and physical tracts
Scope & Content:
A collection of medical, scientific and philosophical texts, in two parts: part 1, ff. 1-19; part 2, ff. 20-128. A detailed description is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 231-58. ff. 1r-5r: Tract on the pulse from Philoretus. Some of the pages are misplac...