MS 1302

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CollectionTrinity College Dublin

LocationDublin, Ireland

ShelfmarkTCD MS 1302; H. 2. 12, No. 1

LanguagesIrish; Latin; ga; la

Date created1400-1499; 1500-1599

Pagination7 ff.

SubjectMedical Tract

ProvenanceThis manuscript was part of the manuscript collection belonging to Sir Edward Lhuyd (1660-1709) and was likely collected during a tour which he made to Ireland in the year 1700; Sir Thomas Sebright purchased some of Lhuyd's collection after his death in 1709; Sir John Sebright acquired them then and was recorded to have them in his possession in 1765; around 1782 Edmund Burke encouraged Sebright to send the manuscripts to Dublin to be examined; Sebright presented them to Trinity College Dublin 1786.

CoverageIreland; Hertforshire, England; Dublin

MaterialVellum

BindingsUnbound

ContributorsLhuyd Sir Edward, 1700; Sebright Sir Thomas; Sebright Sir John; Trinity College Dublin, 1786

Dimensions26-27 × 17.5-19.5 cm

Online since1999

RelationTCD MS 1299 (H. 2. 8)

NotesNo scribal signature; TCD MS 1302-1314 are in a case; Housed in Paper folder marked ‘1302 Grille’ (in pencil) on front cover; Held with two leather thongs; stitch-holes; labelled on Paper slip (9.5 x 3 cm) folded over and pasted onto centre of spine, at front: ‘No 1[...] / [...]’ (transversely), and at back: ‘Hippocrates Aphorisms / Latin \& Irish’ (transversely), in the hand of Theophilus O'Flanagan, and numbered ‘H.22’, above which Todd inserted the word ‘olim’, underlining the number itself; remains of impression of Lhuyd's seal, f. 1r, upper margin; marked by Todd ‘olim H.22’ and ‘H.2.12 / 1’, in upper margin of f. 1r over cols a and b, respectively; numbered ‘1302’ (in pencil), f. 1r, centre of upper margin; ‘Foliated June [?] 1978 / 7 folios’ (in pencil).

RightsCopyright Trinity College Dublin; Copyright image source Irish Script on Screen, School of Celtic Studies, DIAS.

DescriptionTCD MS 1302 is a treatise on diseases and particularly fevers which completely agrees with the tract in 1299 (H. 2. 8). It was written on vellum in Irish around the 15th/16th century.

ReferencesDuncan, Lilian, “A treatise on fevers”, Revue Celtique 49 (1932): 1–90. Duncan edited and translated this manuscript which agrees, word for word, with the Tract in 1299 (H. 2. 8), and which breaks off at p. 49.2 of printed text.

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MS 1302

MEDICAL

15th or 16th cent. Vellum. 26–27 × 17.5–19.5 cm (f. 6, 26–24 × 19 cm; f. 7, 27 × 16–19 cm). Ff. 7, numbered in pencil. No scribal signature.

Unbound; housed in paper folder marked ‘1302 Grille’ (in pencil) on front cover. Held with two leather thongs; stitch-holes; labelled on paper slip (9.5 × 3 cm) folded over and pasted onto centre of spine, at front: ‘N^o 1[...] / [...]’ (transversely), and at back: ‘Hippocrates Aphorisms / Latin & Irish’ (transversely), in the hand of Theophilus O'Flanagan, and numbered ‘H.22’, above which Todd inserted the word ‘olim’, underlining the number itself; remains of impression of Lhuyd's seal, f. 1r, upper margin; marked by Todd ‘olim H.22’ and ‘H.2.12 / 1’, in upper margin of f. 1r over cols a and b, respectively; numbered ‘1302’ (in pencil), f. 1r, centre of upper margin; ‘Foliated June [?] 1978 / 7 folios’ (in pencil), f. 7v, lower margin.

Collation: i⁸ wants 3 with no loss of text. Double columns, frame-ruled in dry point and in grey-brown ink, with double outer and single inner bounding-lines and vertical rule between columns, 34–43 lines; text written below top line; ruling grid clearest on ff. 4r and 7r; prick marks for all seven vertical rules visible in upper and lower margins of most leaves at edge of text area; opening two lines of chapter-incipit on f. 1r in display script; guide-letter ‘m’ in inner margin facing f. 1ra1 but corresponding initial not written. Marginal symbol ‘p^o’ (i.e. Lat. proverbium) facing Latin citations in text: ff. 1v (outer margin and between columns), 2r (inner margin and between columns), 2v (outer margin and between columns), 3r (inner margin and between columns), 3v (between columns). Initials, capitals and various words and phrases, especially opening words of Latin aphorisms, sporadically shaded in grey-brown ink on ff. 2–4, 5r. Vellum defective in ff. 1, 2, 4 and 7; slight defect, f. 5, outer margin; slight hole in f. 1 occupying area left blank on recto, apparently because of perceived imperfection in vellum, but written on on verso, with letters subsequently lost by holing in f. 1va5–6, supplied, with carets, in upper margin of f. 1v, letters immediately following those lost being also repeated. Slight tears in f. 1 with damage to some letters. Strip cut from entire lower margin of f. 3 and inner quarter of lower margin of f. 4 with slight loss of text on final line of both columns on f. 3r, and substantial loss on final line of both columns on f. 3v and col. b of f. 4v. Ink from initial on f. 4ra16 transferred onto f. 3v inner margin. Staining throughout; white stain on f. 6v, outer margin, where vellum exposed through hole in f. 7; front and back pages heavily stained and rubbed, indicating their use as outer covers, with some words illegible, especially in ff. 1ra and 7vb.

Notes and jottings:
(a) 2r, upper margin, above col. a. ‘[? c].’
(b) 2r, upper margin, below previous item. ‘[? u]a con[?cu]’.
(c) 2r, upper margin, above col. b. ‘Fecain glesa [? f ...]’.
(d) 2r, lower margin. ‘T[? i].’
(e) 2v, upper margin. ‘co.’
(f) 2v, upper margin, below previous item. [? c ...]as ó [? b]ais do[...]’.
(g) 2v, inner margin. ‘F’.
(h) 3r, upper margin, above col. a. [? f] [? fec]ain gl[? e]s[? a].’
(i) 4v, upper margin, beginning diagonally above col. a and continuing in straight line across margin. ‘Amen [... erased].’
(j) 4v, upper margin, above col. a and below previous item. ‘[f[ec]ain [? glesa] erased].’
(k) 5r, lower margin, below col. a. ‘f[? ec]aín’.
(l) 5r, lower margin, below previous item. ‘[? ame].
(m) 5v, lower margin, below col. a. ‘[? 79].’
(n) 6r, upper margin, mirror writing. ‘[? fi]orga[...]. abt[? h] mac d[? uach] [...] [... th]mor / g[? m]ailtisi ga[.] daithle arenn is ad uamhar lem [...] [... ? onn ...] / [...].’
(o) 6v, upper margin. ‘Amen.’
(p) 7r, upper margin, above col. b. ‘f[...].’
(q) 7r, between cols. ‘[? s].’
(q) 7v, upper margin, above col. b. ‘c’ (repeated ?).
(r) 7v, between cols. ‘[? A].’
Illegible letters or words on f. 1r, lower margin, inner corner; 7v, upper margin, above col. a, and lower margin, below col. a.

1ra. [Commentary on Galen, Tegni.] Acephalous. Beg. here [M]orbus est cum membra accionis sui naturalis tempuramenta egrediuntur .i. iseadis galur ann .i. anuair tosgaid na baoill leth amuith do measurracht ⁊ do comhsuigiugad gnimha ⁊ oibrighthi na naduire [= MS 1299, p. 25b46]. Breaks off with f. 7 Et adeir Gailen anrad ceadna sa .x. leabar De ingenio sanitatis Neresipias eos [? in] / curam quod siquogent teperentes .i. isead adeir [...]. Scribal note, f. 1rbz ‘a Muire as olc an cír ⁊ nin garbh na sgoile’. Ed. and trans. L. Duncan, Revue Celtique 49 (1932) 1–90, from MS 1299 and this MS.