BindingsHalf-bound in brown boards; leather back, not lettered.
Dimensions9¼" × 6¼"
Online since2002
NotesThis manuscript and the four following(?) contain copies of the same treatise, which seems to have enjoyed wide popularity in Ireland and elsewhere, judging by the number of copies still extant. Cf. T.C.D. Catalogue of Irish MSS., p. 364, and MacKinnon, Catalogue of Gaelic MSS. in Scotland, pp. 21, 70. This copy is defective at the beginning and end and has a good many other lacunae. It begins with Asfodillus and ends with Venenum. Rubricated capitals are used throughout, the parchment is much worn especially behind these illuminated capitals.
RightsCopyright Royal Irish Academy; Copyright image source Irish Script on Screen, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.
DescriptionRIA MS 23 O 23 is a Gaelic medical manuscript with some Latin possibly from the 15th century. Location and scribe are unknown. Written on vellum it contains a medical treatise which begins with Asfodillus and ends with Venenum.
Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Royal Irish Academy
458
23 O 23
Materia Medica
15th cent. ? Vellum. 9¼ × 6¼. Pp. 42, rubricated. The parchment is much
worn, especially behind illuminated capitals. Half-bound in brown
boards; leather back, not lettered. Scribe unknown : no indications of
place or date. Former Academy number, 213. This ms. and the four
following contain copies of the same treatise, which seems to have
enjoyed wide popularity in Ireland and elsewhere, judging by the number
of copies still extant. Cf. T.C.D. Catalogue of Irish MSS., p. 364, and
MacKinnon, Catalogue of Gaelic MSS. in Scotland, pp. 21, 70. This copy
is defective at beginning and end and has a good many other lacunae. It
begins with Asfodillus and ends with Venenum.
