Ornamental reader's aidsRun-over Symbols--Extracolumnar--Abstract--Bracket (single outline): pp 16b, 17a, 24b, 25a, 26b, 37a, 59b, 61b (cf. RIA MS 23 O 4 (471) p. 21a);Run-over Symbols--Extracolumnar--Zoomorphic--Dog: p. 56b
Dimensions33.5 × 24.5 cm
Online since1999
RelationTCD MS 1435 (E. 3. 30); TCD MS 1436 (E. 4. 1)
NotesNo scribal signature; lettered on the back 'Guido de Chauliac'; This is a fragment of the treatise in No. 1435 (e. 3. 30) and (imperfect) No. 1436 (e. 4. 1, p. 129 sqq.), beginning 'cum humane vite brevitas teste Hippocrate vix sufficiat ad immense artis longitudinem.' The present fragment begins with p. 19, 1. 3 of 1435, and ends with 120, col. 2, but with defects; Pp. 72, numbered in pencil; pp. 1-63 bearing earlier foliation, 1-32; Modern pencilled pagination on pp. 69-72 cancelled; The two mutilated folios at end fill part of the lacuna noted between ff. 12 and 13.
RightsCopyright Trinity College Dublin; Copyright image source Irish Script on Screen, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.
DescriptionTCD MS 1283 is a medical treatise written in Gaelic and Latin and estimated to have been written around the 17th century. It treats of apostemata, eruptive disorders, wounds, etc. Avicenna, Allifius, Serapion, Dioscorides, and others are quoted. On p. 27 Guido is quoted. Pp 59 onwards is a collection of Old Irish maxims known as Tecosca Cormaic. There are two additional, much mutilated folios at the end of the volume, separated from the rest by a blank leaf.
15th or 16th cent. Vellum. 33.5 × 24.5 cms (pp. 23-4, 65-6 smaller). Pp.
72, numbered in pencil; pp. 1-63 bearing earlier foliation, 1-32; modern
pencilled pagination on pp. 69-72 cancelled. No scribal signature.
1 a [Petrus de Argellata, Chirurgia .] Beg. acephalous [in section
beg. [A ]postemata glandosa fiunt multis modis , in ms RIA 24 P
26, p. 197.22 (= Chirurgia (Venice 1480) [without foliation] book 1,
tract 1, chapter 21)] fein inaball fuar isimurcacha fuara cuireas
uaithi ⁊ feadtar moran dorésunaibh ele do beith aranadbur ceadna .
Chasm in text after p. 54. Breaks off [in section beg. Deuulnere
toracis mirum est quod nec Auicenna nec Haliabas de hocc scripcerunt
(p. 67a4) (= Chirurgia , bk 3, ch. 12)] with p.68 ⁊ tabair tát don
cneid Item féadaidh deoch do thabairt. Corresponds to RIA 24 P 26,
pp. 197.36-286.z, 289.1-41, 288, 289.42-299.31, 318.9-331.z,
333.1-342.2 with loss of text due to cutting into shape of pp. 69-72, to
removal of most of outer half of pp. 13-14 (remains of text on
pp. 13b-14a; text lost on p. 14a[1]-[28] apparently shorter than
corresponding text in RIA 24 P 26, p. 228.2-z) and of leaf between
pp. 60 and 61 (remains of text on stub surviving after p. 60), and to
decay and damage on pp. 63-8.
