Rubric 'De passionibus diversis', incipit: 'Frenetica passio alienatio mentis dicitur / et evenit per nimium vinum', explicit: 'ad somnum freneticos adducit'. For the text, see L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, Catalogue of Incipits of Medieval Scientific Writings in Latin, rev. edn. (London, 1963; T...
Collection of medical recommendations, recipes and charms
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Incipit (f. 64v): 'Incipit liber primus medicinalis ad capitis do-/lorem. Baccas lauri cum oleo roseo'; incipit (f. 65v): 'Medicamentum ad diver-/sas causas oculorum maculas quoque caligines. Jus / feniculi'; rubric (f. 66r): 'Ad caducum', incipit: 'Primum fac benedici aquam / deinde fac benedici...
Incipit: 'Incipit inventio sancte crucis .i. tri bliadhna deg air fhicheat ar...'. According to Flower (1926) this text was associated with the Irish Fierabras.
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.
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
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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).
Decoration: Historiated initial 'I'(ntentio) of an astronomer holding an astronomical instrument, at the beginning of the text (f. 4r). Diagram in yellow and black ink (f. 4r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue.
Decoration: Historiated initial 'O'(mnia) of a mathematician writing numbers at his desk, at the beginning of the text (f. 15v). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blue.
Jordanus de Nemore, De plana sphaera (Demonstratio de plana spera; Planispherium)
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Decoration: Historiated initial 'S'(pera) of an astronomer holding an astrolabe (?), at the beginning of the text (f. 31r). Initial in gold and colours at the beginning of the prologue (f. 30r). Initials in blue with red pen-flourishing or in red with blue pen-flourishing. Paraphs in red or blu...