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Egerton MS 159
- Record Id:
- 032-003797645
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-003797645
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100118920462.0x000001
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100184120147.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Egerton MS 159
- Title:
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Collection of medical tracts in Irish
- Scope & Content:
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Medical tracts compiled from various sources.
A detailed description of this manuscript is provided by O'Grady and Flower, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, pp. 280-85.
Contents:
ff. 1r-2v: Definitions taken from Bernard de Gordon's Lilium Medicinæ.
ff. 3r-7r: Medical maxims and definitions in Latin, with the Irish version attached. Colophon on f. 7r gives the date.
ff. 7r-v: Irish translation of the first section of (Pseudo-)Hippocrates's 'Capsula eburnea'. O'Grady noted similarities between it and sections of the Articella. According to O'Grady, f. 7v, ll. 2-5 is taken from Articella f. lxxiiijv, col. 1 (but without citing the manuscript or edition).
ff. 7v-8v: Prognostications in Irish. No division between this and the previous section, but O'Grady claimed that from f. 7v, l. 5) on, it does not draw on the tract printed in the Articella (O'Grady, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts, i, p. 282).
f. 8v: Note on temperaments as derived from birth during different lunar phases; medical memoranda.
f. 9r: Tract on treatments for various ailments: cancer; putting flesh on an exposed bone.
ff. 9r-10r: Tract on treatments for paralysis.
ff. 10r-11v: Tract on treating melancholia.
f. 11v: Short tract on treating 'Terciana' (Tertian fever?)
ff. 11v-13r: Tract on treating fever and cough.
ff. 13r-v: Tract on treating dropsy (edema).
f. 13v: Tract on treating arthritis.
f. 13v: 'A salve tested/proved for the eyes'.
f. 14r: Tract on the treating the liver; tract on treating tongue ulcers; tract on flux from the enflamed humours.
f. 14v: Tract on sweat.
ff. 14v-15r: Tract on menstruation.
f. 15r: Tract on vomiting.
ff. 15v-21r: Tracts concerning menstruation and birth.
f. 16v: Tract on problems with menstruation. Attributed to Serapion (Serapion the Younger?).
ff. 21v-23v: Tract on eye problems. Incomplete at the end.
Decoration:
Initials in black.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Egerton Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Tree:
- [{ "id" : "032-003797645", "parent" : "#", "text" : "Egerton MS 159: Collection of medical tracts in Irish" , "li_attr" : {"class": "orderable"} }]
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-003797645
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-003797645
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100184120147.0x000001
- Thumbnail:
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- Languages:
- Irish
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1592
- End Date:
- 1592
- Date Range:
- 1592
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 195 x 135mm (written area 145-165 x 100-110mm).
Foliation: 23 ff. (+ 2 paper flyleaves at the beginning + 2 paper flyleaves at the end).
Script: Irish script.
Binding: Brown half-leather on marbled paper over paper boards. Blind tooled.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Ireland (Thomastown, Co. Kilkenny?).
Written principally by Tadhg Mac Caisín, who signed his name on f. 7r.
Provenance:
James Hardiman (b. 1782, d. 1855): among the manuscripts sold by Hardiman to the British Museum after losing his job as sub-commissioner at the Irish Records Commission. He sold his manuscripts to the British Museum for £500, a third of their value.
Purchased by the British Museum using the Bridgewater fund (£12,000 bequeathed in 1829 by Francis Henry Egerton, 8th Earl of Bridgewater (b. 1756, d. 1829).
- Publications:
- Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Standish Hayes O'Grady (vol. I) and Robin Flower (vol. II), 2 vols (London: British Museum, 1926; repr. 1992), i, 280-85.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)