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Egerton MS 89

Record Id:

032-003931033

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-003931033

MDARK:

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LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Egerton MS 89

Title:

Lilium Medicinae (Lili na hEaladhan Leighis)

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. i: Two paper pastedowns. The first contains a text on ‘treating’ gout (Irish with English translation). The second gives a recipe in English for a mulsa.

ff. 1-11: Inserted paper leaves.

f. 1v: Transcript of part of a memorandum by Theophilus O’Flanagan in Anthologia Hibernica III, concerning Irish medical manuscripts.

f. 2v: Prose version in English of the opening quatrains of Laoidh na Sealga.

f. 2r: Prose version in English of some quatrains from the Ossianic lay Seilg Sléibhe Fuaid.

f. 3r-v: Extract on the circulation of the blood taken from Bracken’s treatise on farming.

ff. 4r-10v: Medical text on blood and blood letting. Irish with facing English translation.

f. 11r: Passage from Bracken’s treatise on farming. Headings suggests that this is taken from the same page as f.3r-v, but the passages diverge after a few lines.

f. 11v: Earlier passage from the lay Seilg Sléibhe Fuaid.

f. 12r: Note of ownership: Mahon Mac Mahon ( Mathghamhna Mac Mathghamna). A line and a quatrain in Irish. A quote from homer’s Iliad in Greek and an Irish translation ‘Ar chéd-bhlosgadh na comhaoirach ingean ros-mhéarach na maidine’.

ff. 13r-192v: Lile na h-ealadhan leighis. A literal translation into Irish of Bernard de Gordon's Lilium Medicinae.

The manuscript contains several later additions.

f. 193r: Transcript of a note on f. 192v about Gearóid's purchase of the MS for twenty cows.

f. 193v: Illegible.

f. 194r: Draft of a bond concerning lands in Co. Clare. Written in English with the Latin heading 'Cum singula officia singulis sunt comitenda personis'.

ff. 195r-196r: Section of an Irish translation of a commentary on the Aphorisms of Hippocrates.

f. 196r: Signed by the writer of the paper fragment: 'Edd. Cassidy'.

Decoration:

Highlighting of letters in red. Line-fillers in red. Space for large initials with occasional guide-letters.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Hierarchy Tree:

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Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-003931033

Is part of:

not applicable

Hierarchy:

032-003931033

Container:

not applicable

Record Type (Level):

Fonds

Extent:

1 volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Irish

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1482

End Date:

1489

Date Range:

1482-1489

Era:

Place of Origin:

Ireland (Possibly Clare).

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 290 x 195mm (written space 220 x 160mm in two columns).

Foliation: ff. i + 195 (+ 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning and end + 1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the end); folio i: parchment with two paper pastedowns on f. i verso, the first of which has also been foliated as i.

Script: Irish.

Binding: British Museum in-house. Rebound 8 April 1963.

Custodial History:

Origin:Ireland (possibly Clare).Possibly written by Domhnall albanach Ó Troightigh in Clare (see Egerton MS 91, art. 3).An inscription in Irish states that the manuscript was written in 1482 (f. 92). A later note, in the hand of the scribe, gives the date 1489 (f. 95r).Provenance:Gerald Fitz Gerald (Gearóid Mór), Earl of Kildare: an inscription that he bought the manuscript for twenty cows in 1500 (f. 192v).Charles Hicky: ownership inscription with a date of 1680 (f. 104v); draft of a bond in English by ‘Charles Hickey of Clonloghane in the Countie of Clare’ with a date of 1616, and lower down, the date 1682 (f. 194).Mahon Mac Mahon (Mathghamhna mac Mathghamhna): ownership inscription in Irish with the date 1728 (f. 12).James Hardiman: note in his own hand that he bought the manuscript from a bookseller in Dublin on 15 July 1829 for £7.2.6 + duty. It remained in his possession until July 1832 when it was acquired by the British Museum.Bought 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).

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Publications:

Catalogue of Additional Manuscripts 6666-10018; Catalogue of Egerton Manuscripts 1-606 (unpublished catalogue available in the British Library Manuscripts Reading Room), p. 102.

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, 202-22.

A Guide to the Exhibition of Some Part of the Egerton Collection of Manuscripts in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1929), no. 69.

List of Additions Made to the Collections in the British Museum in the Year 1832 (London: British Museum, 1834), p. 12.

Watson, Andrew G., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in The Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), i, no. 578.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)