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An Irish Materia Medica (Author: Tadhg Ó Cuinn)

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National Library of Ireland MS G11:

Written on vellum and completed in 1466 by Donnchadh Ó Bolgaidi, with two or three unidentified collaborators. The manuscript contains a considerable amount of material on medical topics, including valuable copies of some legal tracts relating to medical practice. The Materia medica occupies pages 1–67. Nessa Ni Shéaghdha says, Cat, i 66, that parts of the manuscript may have been written at

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Woodstock, near Athy, and at Clanmalire, Laois, adding, p. 71, that the copy of the Materia medica may be reckoned among the more complete vellum copies, and that it is more or less akin to the copy in H. 3. 22 (above).