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Caput Christi charm
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A Latin charm aganst ailments of the eyes, beg. Caput Christi.
Manuscript witnesses
MS
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1336/4
incipit: Caput Cristi oculus isaie frons helie nassur... Charm against headache. This part, unnumbered, has been designated 658b in the TCD catalogue (Abbott and Gwynn).
col. 658b
Text
London, British Library, MS Additional 30512
rubric: Figell U Shuanaigh so incipit: Corpus Christ
f. 72r
Text
St. Gallen, Stiftsbibliothek, MS 1395/pp. 418-419
context: St Gall charm 3 Latin charm foll. by an Old Irish instruction.
p. 419
Sources
Secondary sources (select)
Tuomi, Ilona, “Nine hundred years of the Caput Christi charm: scribal strategies and textual transmission”, in: Ilona Tuomi, John Carey, Barbara Hillers, and Ciarán Ó Gealbhain (eds), Charms, charmers and charming in Ireland: from the medieval to the modern, Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019. 51–64.
