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141. Harley MS 546, ff 47v-48r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 47v-48r
Title:
Text relating to the cure of flatulence and of worms in the stomach
Scope & Content:
Text relating to the cure of flatulence and of worms in the stomach, excerpt, incipit: 'Dentur clisteri ar tus sa cas so le neitib ana mbia brisidh gaotmuireachta ocus murbhtha / na piast', explicit: 'ocus do pudur sinsir ocus biadha ínm / olta ele et cetera'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

142. 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.

143. Harley MS 546, ff 59r-68r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 59r-68r
Title:
Medical compendium relating to fevers
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
9 folios.

144. Harley MS 546, ff 68r-69r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 68r-69r
Title:
Treatise on the plague
Scope & Content:
Treatise on the plague; incipit: 'Ad preservandum corpus a pestilensia .i.e. do coimed an cuirp a naimsir na plaga', explicit: 'Item balad mumia do gabail / a naimsir na plaga ocus is tarbach sin'. The Latin source of the present treatise has not been identified.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

145. Harley MS 546, ff 70v-71r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 546, ff 70v-71r
Title:
Bernardus de Gordonio, Lilium Medicine, Chapter 5: De urinis (extract)
Scope & Content:
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...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
Irish and Latin
Date Range:
1459
Extent:
2 folios.

146. 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.

147. Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 1r-101v
Title:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (circa 183 plants), imperfect at the beginning and lacking one leaf at the end. The text consists of the enlarged Old English translations (itemised below) of two Latin herbals dating from the 4th and late 5th-early 6th century. Because of the loss of the first origina...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
101 folios.

148. Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 101v-114v
Title:
Medicina de quadrupedibus
Scope & Content:
Medicina de quadrupedibus, imperfect. The text consists of the Old English translations (itemised below) of three separate Latin compilations that date from the 5th century. Other copies in Cotton MS Vitellius C. iii (ff. 75r-82v), Harley MS 6258B (ff. 44v-51r), and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old
Date Range:
Late 10th century-Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

149. Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 115r-129v
Title:
A table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium
Scope & Content:
Table of contents of Pseudo-Apuleius, Herbarium (ff. 1r-101v), imperfect. Title in Latin: 'Incipiunt capituli libri medi/cinalis Nomen herba betonica / Fir bircop wyrta', incipit: 'Wiþ unhyrum nihtgengum', breaking off at 'Wiþ wunde'.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
14 folios.

150. Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r

Reference (shelfmark):
Harley MS 585, ff 130r-193r
Title:
Lacnunga (Leechbook)
Scope & Content:
Lacnunga (i.e. 'remedies' or 'cures') is a collection of medical recipes, magical charms and invocations mainly in Old English, partly in Latin and Old Irish. Rubric 'With heafod wræce' with later marginal note in Latin 'Ad dolorem capitis', incipit: 'Genim hamorwyrt and efenlastan nyðowearde', ...
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Languages:
English, Old, French, Old, Irish, and Latin
Date Range:
Early 11th century
Extent:
63 folios.