Texts
Irish version of the Trotula
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Early Modern Irish version of sections from the group of texts on women's medicine known as the Trotula. The Irish text appears to have been written c. 1352, based on a Latin text of what Monica H. Green has called the ‘standardized ensemble’ of Trotula texts. The (extant) portions are concerned with gynaecology and obstetrics.
Manuscript witnesses
Text
Dublin, Royal Irish Academy, MS 23 F 19
incipit: idir na cichib ⁊ is urcoidech doib cuisle na lam Acephalous. Edited by Wulff (1934) on pp. 22–53, starting some lines down (is ferrdi duilleóga raidleoigi do cur co tana uirri).
ff. 88ra–93ra
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1436/pp. 101-112
incipit: CUM AUTUR UNIUERCITATIS ⁊C The section that is edited by Wulff (1934) on pp. 12–22.
ff. 101ra–106a
Text
Dublin, Trinity College, MS 1436/pp. 220-367
incipit: Secundum dominam Trotulam Quaedam mulieres sunt grasiles quedam groise ⁊c. Another section, edited by Wulff (1934) on pp. 53-54.
pp. 359b–360b
Sources
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[ed.] Wulff, Winifred, “A mediaeval handbook of gynaecology and midwifery: preceded by a section on the grades and on the treatment of wounds and some good counsel to the physician himself finishing with a discussion on the treatment of scabies”, in: J. Fraser, Paul Grosjean, and J. G. OʼKeeffe (eds), Irish texts, fasciculus V, London, 1934. i–xxvii, 1–99.
