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...
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...
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...
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...
Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5: De urinis (extract)
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Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5, De urinis, extract; incipit: 'Condiciones Bernardi Gordonia de urína .i.e. cuirid Bernard .9. cuingill .x. / annso ar an fuál', explicit: 'an fual do beith ísil isna heslaintib geara ocus ard isna heaslaintib rigni et reliqua'. The text is an a...
Contents: ff. 1v-7r: Calendar. ff. 8r-76v: The Four Gospels. ff. 77r-93v: Psalter. ff. 93v-95v: Biblical Canticles. Decoration: Large and small initials in red and blue with arabesque in-set and half border in red or blue. Paragraph signs in red and blue.
A collection of legal and administrative texts; a short tract in Anglo-Norman about calculating the day of Easter; measuring tables; Robert Grosseteste, Les Reules Seynt Roberd; a glossary of technical terms; several formularies; a list of English kings
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Contents: ff. 1r-18r: A miscellaneous collection of legal and administrative texts. ff. 18r-19r: A short tract in Anglo-Norman about calculating the day of Easter. ff. 19v-20v: Measuring tables. ff. 21r-27v: Robert Grosseteste, Les Reules Seynt Roberd. ff. 27v-29r: A glossary of technical t...
Contents: ff. 1v-57v: Boethius (b. c. 480, d. 524), De institutione arithmetica (On the Principles of Arithmetic), with a preface, incipit: 'In dandis et accipiendis muneribus'. The manuscript contains a few later additions: ff. 58r-58v: An unidentified religious poem, added in the late 12th ...
Contents: ff. 2r-3r: A table of contents. ff. 3v-7v: A table of chapters. ff. 9r-13r: Magna Carta. ff. 13v-18r: Articuli editi super Cartis. ff. 18r-20r: Provisiones de Merton. ff. 20r-26r: Statutum de Marleberghe. ff. 26r-29v: Statutum de Gloucestrie. ff. 29v-41r: Statutum de Westm...
Æthelwold, Regularis Concordia (transcribed from Cotton MS Tiberius A III)
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Contents: ff. 1r-44v: Æthelwold, Regularis Concordia; a transcript from Cotton MS Tiberius A III, ff. 174r-177r. The manuscript contains a later addition: f. 1*recto: A title-page; added in the 16th century, possibly by Laurence Nowell.