The James Catalogue of Western Manuscripts

Shelfmark R.14.48
Manuscript Title

Tochomhladh Mac Míleadh; Medical Texts

Alternative Title

Astrological and Medical Items

James Number 918
Date 1468
Century 15th
Physical Description

39 lines to a page. In a close ugly hand.

Provenance

Given by ? On the first and last pages is written Liber domini Rumpayne. There was a John Rumpayne of Kings College, entered in 1495.

Size (cm) 23 x 15.5
Folio 96 ff.
Material Paper
Language IrishLatinMiddle English
Collation

112 (8 canc. 12 a slip) a8-h8 i10 k10 l8 (5 canc.) m8 (wants 6-8).

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Contents

There are many late scribbles on the fly-leaf.

1. f.i Preface in Irish, headed
uille angera.
Isan sin toğabŭs dair an laechraig
-enoidthe on rigfilid so mas fir. finit.

[Is annsin doghabhusdair anlaechraigh sin ag leasughadh along ...]

2. f.ii Kalendar in red and black, not full
On R, are three sets of tables for 1463, 1482, 1501.
1 Feb. Bridget in red.
17 Mar. Patrick in red.
16 June Brandan in red.
20 June Ethelberti regis.
f.viii A late Index
f.viiib Table of Zodiacal signs

3. f.ix Inc. tractatus de · 7 · planetis
Saturnus est masculinus
-et hoc secundum medium motum.
Explicit: then in red: doncat so.
f.x is a slip with a
Tabula subsequentis operis
and a rude sketch of a man.

4. f.1 Cap. I. De modo tractandi et ordine
Cum omnis sciencia ex fine et utilitate sua naturali sit appetenda.
Ends f.89b
in · xx · die iterum fiat minucio. Explicit.
Scripta est presens carta per manum dionisii Cyriton cuiusdam scolaris in phisica apud Sotone in comit. Kanc'. Anno gratie · 1468. Regni vero Regis Edwardi quarti post conquestum viiio · secundo die mensis decembris. Cui exselsus et gloriosus deus concedat gratiam in hoc seculo et gloriam in futuro sine fine. Amen.

5. f.90 Tractatus de urinis
Cum de urinis agere debeamus · videndum est quid sit urina.
Ends: non possum esse defensor et contrarii reprobator.
Explicit.

6. f.94 A paragraph de urinis. At end
Quod doncadh mh6nac matha apud Soton valaunce.

7. f.94b Sequitur compendiosus tractatus de urinis et multum utilis
Constat apud veteres tria esse ex quibus constat corpus humanum
-et molestacio.
Finit amen finit qui scripsit sit benedictus · quod dionisius Cyritoñ (partly erased).

Bibliography

de Brún, P., and M. Herbert, Catalogue of Irish Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries (Cambridge, 1986), 106-7

Mac Niocall, G., 'Blogh de "Tochomlad Mac Miledh"', Celtica 6 (1963), 259-61

Mooney, L. R., The Index of Middle English Prose Handlist 11: Manuscripts in the Library of Trinity College, Cambridge (Cambridge, 1995), p. 49

Robinson, P., Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts in Cambridge Libraries, 2 vols. (Cambridge, 1988), no. 355, pl. 299 [ff.1-89 dated 1468, written at Sutton Valence in England]

 

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