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Language, Education and Medical Learning in the Premodern Gaelic World

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LEIGHEAS Manuscript of the Month: April 2025

Published: April 16, 2025 20:28

Dublin, National Library of Ireland MS G8 Siobhán Barrett View the manuscript online Fig. 1: Dublin, National Library of Ireland MS G8, p. 29: The opening lines of the Aphorisms of Hippocrates, with the heading: ‘[A]men Amen an tinnscadal ar leabor Eumainn…

LEIGHEAS Manuscript of the Month: March 2025

Published: March 23, 2025 15:53

Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library MS La.III.21 (‘The McBeath Gaelic Medical Manuscript’) Siobhán Barrett View selected images of the manuscript online Fig. 1: Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Library MS La.III.21, fols 50v-51r: The McBeath Gaelic…

LEIGHEAS Manuscript of the Month: February 2025

Published: February 16, 2025 16:40

Dublin, Trinity College MS 1315 (H 2. 13): ‘Leabhar Riocaird Uí Challannáin’ Siobhán Barrett View the manuscript online Figure 1: Dublin, Trinity College MS 1315 (H 2. 13), p. 14: an Arbor philosophiae, or coloured diagram of the branches and subdivisions…

The Land of Milk and Honey

Published: January 22, 2025 15:44

Siobhán Barrett In two blogs last year (see here and here), I described some of our native Irish trees and how their leaves, roots, bark and seeds were prescribed for medical use. This month’s blog will consider two ingredients that were derived from…

LEIGHEAS Manuscript of the Month: January 2025

Published: January 11, 2025 13:32

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS 23 F 19 (473) Deborah Hayden View the manuscript online Fig. 1: Dublin, Royal Irish Academy MS 23 F 19, fol. 89v: a page from the Irish version of the collection of texts on women’s medicine known as the Trotula (image…

Dating Medieval Irish Medical Texts

Published: December 15, 2024 17:37

Sharon Arbuthnot Fig. 1: The homepage of the electronic Dictionary of the Irish Language (eDIL). Citations from a great variety of medical texts appear in the Dictionary of the Irish Language. These are used mainly to illustrate domain-specific vocabulary,…

LEIGHEAS Manuscript of the Month: December 2024

Published: December 8, 2024 16:19

Dublin, National Library of Ireland MS G 414 Siobhán Barrett View the manuscript online Figure 1: Dublin, National Library of Ireland MS G 414, p. 473: The final page of an Irish version of the Dispensatorium of Valerius Cordus, showing the date, location…