Texts

Lile na h-ealadhan leighis ‘The lily of the art of medicine’

Cormac Mac Duinnshléibhe

Early Modern Irish
prose
Irish texts

Early Modern Irish translation of Bernard de Gordon’s Lilium medicinae.

Author

Mac Duinnshléibhe (Cormac)

Mac Duinnshléibhe (Cormac)

(fl. 15th century)

Cormac Mac Duinnshléibhe (Mac Duinntshléibhe / Mac Duinn Shléibhe, angl. Mac Donlevy), 15th-century Irish translator of a number of medical treatises.

The translation of the text is attributed to Cormac Mac Duinnshléibhe.

Manuscripts

London, British Library, MS Egerton 89

ff. 13ra–192vb

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 3 C 19 (439) [s. xvi + s. xviii]

Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 24 P 14 (443) [s. xvi]

Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, Adv. MS 18.2.11 [s. xvii]

ff. 1r–42, 46–137v

beg. ‘Tionnsgantar in .2. pairtigeal ann so neoch tráchtus d’ uile easlaintiph na hincinni conuige na suile’

Parts 2-7. Ff. 43-45 are missing.

Language

Early Modern Irish

Date

Second half of the 15th century.

Form

prose (primary)

Textual relationships

(Possible) sources: Lilium medicinaeLilium medicinae

A medical encyclopedic handbook written by French physician and scholar Bernard de Gordon in the beginning of the 14th century (1303–1305?), when he was active as professor of medicine at the University of Montpellier. The work survives in numerous manuscrpts, was first printed in Naples in 1480 and was translated, in whole or in part, into multiple vernaculars, including French, German, Spanish and Irish.

Related: Irish version of De amore hereos (Lilium medicinae)Irish version of De amore hereos (Lilium medicinae)

An Early Modern Irish version of Bernard de Gordon’s treatment of lovesickness (amor hereos), from his medical work Lilium medicinae.