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Arundel MS 313
- Record Id:
- 040-002039596
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002039280
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000395.0x0003a9
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100184118356.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Arundel MS 313
- Title:
- Collection of medical tracts, notes and excerpts
- Scope & Content:
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A collection of medical tracts, notes and excerpts from various sources including Avicenna, Hippocrates, Avicenna, Hali-Abbas, Egidius and Raymundus Lullus (Ramon Llull).
The manuscript was written in 1519 by the scribe Donnchadh Ó Eichthighern (Donough O'Ahiarn), whose hand also appears in Arundel MS 333.
For a detailed description of the manuscript, see O'Grady and Flower, ed., Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts (1926), I, pp. 258-62.
Contents:
ff. 1r-5v, 8r-9r: Tract on urine, with a lacuna between ff. 5 and 8.
f. 6r: Note concerning heat and cold.
ff. 6v-7r: Note on the properties of gold.
f. 7v: Note that every 'quality' has its beginning in the 'subject'.
f. 7v: Note that light and motion precede heat.
f. 9v: Note that the stomach should be emptied through a laxative or vomiting before letting blood.
f. 9v: Note that medical treatment should begin with the mildest medicine.
f. 9v: Notes on nourishment provided by sweet and fatty things.
ff. 9v-10r: Notes on the effects of vinegar on humours and nerves.
f. 10r: Claim that study causes more wasting away of the mind and non-corporeal things than work causes the body.
f. 10r: Claim that in a time of study the animal virtue is strengthened and the natural virtue weakened.
f. 10r: Claim that flavours follow the nature of the body in which they were made.
f. 10r-v: Definition of anatomy.
f. 10v: Note on the composition of the human body as a single entity with reason and many organs).
ff. 10v-11v: Note that an organ is neither separated into parts nor bound together.
ff. 11v-13r: Note on a nerve.
f. 13r-v: Note on the stomach.
f. 13v: Note on the 'gall vessel'.
f. 13v: Note on the spleen, imperfect at the end.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Arundel Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002039280
040-002039596 - Is part of:
- Arundel MS 1-550 : Arundel Manuscripts
Arundel MS 313 : Collection of medical tracts, notes and excerpts - Hierarchy:
- 032-002039280[0314]/040-002039596
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Arundel MS 1-550
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- 1 volume
- Digitised Content:
- http://access.bl.uk/item/viewer/ark:/81055/vdc_100184118356.0x000001 (digital images currently unavailable)
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- Languages:
- Irish
Latin - Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1519
- End Date:
- 1519
- Date Range:
- 1519
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 80-90 x 105-115mm (written area: 50-85 x 70-95mm).
Foliation: ff. 13 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 52 at the end).
Script: Irish.
Binding: British Museum in-house. Brown half-leather binding. Rebound 15 May 1963.
- Custodial History:
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Origin:
Ireland.
The manuscript was written by the scribe Donnchadh Ó Eichthighern (Donough O'Ahiarn) in 1519: the inscribed colophon, 'Ando domini an tan do graifnedh an beac so .i. 1519. ocus finit' (f. 9r). The scribe's name does not appear in the manuscript but comparison with another of his manuscripts (Arundel MS 333) indicates that it was written in his hand (see O'Grady and Flower, eds. Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts (1926), I, p. 258).
Provenance:
William Howard (b. 1563, d. 1640), antiquary and landowner: his name inscribed, 'William Howarde' with the date 1592 (f. 1r).
Thomas Howard (b. 1585, d. 1646), 2nd Earl of Arundel, 4th Earl of Surrey, and 1st Earl of Norfolk, art collector and politician: inherited his uncle William Howard's book collection upon his death in 1640.
Henry Howard (b. 1628, d. 1684), 6th Duke of Norfolk (b. 1628, d. 1684): presented to the Royal Society in 1667.
The Royal Society, London: its ink stamp 'Soc. Reg. Lond / ex dono HENR. HOWARD / Norfolciensis.' (f. 2r)
Purchased by the British Museum from the Royal Society together with 549 other Arundel manuscripts in 1831.
- Publications:
- Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in the British Museum, ed. by Standish Hayes O'Grady and Robin Flower, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1926; repr. 1992), I, pp. 258-62.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)