Irish Script on Screen

MS C 4

IIIF Manifest

CollectionMaynooth University

LocationCo. Kildare, Ireland

ShelfmarkMS C 4

LanguagesIrish; Latin; ga; la

Date created1600-1699

Paginationii pp. + 20 pp.

SubjectMedical Tract

ProvenanceThis is a tract on diseases etc.; a Latin text with translation of all paragraphs. The scribe is unknown but the writing (and the subject) are similar to those of Pádraig O Siadhail in RIA MS 23 K 42.The leaves are now in a white folder with " O Curry 4. Medical" written on the outside.

CoverageMaynooth

MaterialPaper

BindingsWhite folder with "O'Curry 4. Medical" witten on the outside.

ScribesÓ Siadhail, Pádraig

ContributorsO'Curry Collection, 1876

Dimensions7" x 4"

Online since2007

NotesTen sparse leaves which are mended with transparent paper. What remains of the manuscript is not continuous. There is a (later?) trace of numbering on the leaves—8 (ar p. 11), 9 (13), 10 (15), 11 (17).

RightsCopyright The Library, NUI Maynooth; Copyright image source Irish Script on Screen, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.

DescriptionNUIM MS C 4 is a Gaelic manuscript from the 17th century. Written on paper and containing medical tracts translated from Latin into Irish the scribe is unknown but the writing (and the subject) are similar to those of Pádraig O Siadhail in RIA MS 23 K 42.. The location is unknown. It is now contained in a white folder with " O Curry 4. Medical" written on the outside in the Russell Library, Maynooth.

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Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Maynooth University

C 4

LEIGHEAS

17ú haois. Páipéar. c. 7" × 4". 10 nduilleog scáinte atá leasaithe le cabhair páipéir thrédhearcaigh. Bíodh, ná fuil leanúnach ar fad, de ls. Tá rian d'uimhriú duilleog (déanach ?)—8 (ar lch 11), 9 (13), 10 (15), 11 (17). Ní fios cé scríobh ach go bhfuil an pheannaireacht (agus an t-ábhar) cosúil léi siúd ag Pádraig O Siadhail i 23 K 42. Na duilleoga anois i bhfillteán bán agus " O Curry 4. Medical" scríofa lasmuigh air sin.

1 . Blodh de thráchtas ar Ghalair etc. ; téacs Laidine agus aistriúchán do gach alt. [?Febris est color innaturalis]. An tosach ar iarraidh, ag lean. ar aghaidh : Flegmatis est aqositas sangu[in]is : is ed is l. fola ann uisg[eam]lacht f[ola] d[uine]. Mar fo-ranna : Alopesia est casus capillorum sine ulceribus . . . ; is ed is alopesia ann titim fuilt (lch 6) ; Sicut scribit Galenus 8° de Iurementis membrorum . ... Is ed is mur so sgribhus G. san 8 [ ] do sochur na mball (10m.). Squinantia guturis est . . . . ; is ed is sginia (?) ann (lch 12) ; Strangulatio cibi est motus compositus ex vertute. ... is ed is slugad bidh ann (lch 14). [H]epar est membrum primum et princibium in generatione . . . .: is íad na hae cead ball do hiondradh a ngionemain na lionn (lch 18. " Ihs Mariae " marg. sup.). Bearna idir lch 18 agus lch 19. Stad. 20i. le cur síos ar "Noli me tangere." (cf. RIA Cat. lch 1189.).

Nóta : Istigh leis na duilleoga seo tá scláta páipéir ; nóta i mBéarla ar a chúl; ar a aghaidh : In trúagh leat meise, a meic Taidhg. 2½r.