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.
Text relating to gout and its treatment; imperfect, incipit: 'Guta vocatur quod ad similitudinem gute ace distillat ad íunturas et cetera .i.e. as ead is guta ann do reir Platiarius, breaking at 'acht fo neart na naduire ocus fo méd an teinnis'. Another copy of the text in Additional MS 15582 (ff. 3...
Text relating to the cure of flatulence and of worms in the stomach
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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'.
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. datab...
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 version of s...
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 anonym...
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 of ...
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 made by...
Medical compendium; imperfect. Incipit: '[T]indscnum ar tus do frenísis ocus adeir gailen cofuiled da hearnuil uirre', explicit: 'o tréighinus fada no o folmugad follus ele amail ata', occasionally introduced by a title in Latin and followed by the catchword 'flux'. The text relates to variuos ailme...
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 disea...