The Texts
Aoibheann Nic Dhonnchadha writes:
"The extensive corpus of medical writing that survives in Irish comprises more than a hundred manuscripts written during the period c. 1400 to c. 1700. These documents, most of which are housed in Irish libraries, are the most important written record extant for the institutional organisation and medical practise of physicians in late medieval and early modern Ireland and Scotland."
Among those that survive are:
- RIA MS 439 (3 C 19) - written by Risteard Ó Conchubhair (1561-1625) and Giolla Pádraig mac Donnchadh Óg Ó Conchubhair
- NLS 73.1.22 - by Donnchadh Albanach Ó Conchubhair (1571-1647)
- RIA ms 996 (23 N 17)
- TCD ms 1372 - partly written by Giolla Pádraig mac Giolla na Naomh Ó Conchubhair
- NLI G 11 - written mainly by Donnchadh Ó Bolgaidhe, fl.1466-75.
- NLI G 12
- RIA MS 23 P 10 ii - The Book of the Ó Lee's or The Book of Hy Brasil
- Liber Flavus Fergusiorum - compiled by in the 14th century by the Ó Fearghusa of Connacht.
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