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Compendium of medical treatises in Gaelic written by Angus Beaton.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.2.10
Scope and Contents
The compendium of medical treatises was written 1611-1614 by Angus Beaton. He gives only his patronymic, Aonghus mac Fearchair mhic Aonghuis (pages 126, 192, 260), but this is sufficient to identify him as of the Beatons of Husabost in Skye. Apart from one visit to Skye (Trumpan, page 66), and a meeting or consultation with Cameron of Lochiel at a place called Dunán Eachain (page 106), Angus’ line-fillers and other notes indicate that the manuscript was written on circuit in the contiguous...
Dates:
1611-1614.
Medical manuscript, in Gaelic, consisting chiefly of a treatise on diets and matters ancillary to medicine, including cosmology and a calendar.
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Identifier: Adv.MS.72.1.12
Scope and Contents
Of the four layers, all but the third probably were written by a single scribe; a fifth, written by him in ?Leinster circa 1549, is now Adv.MS.72.1.20.The manuscript is written in the following hands.1. Text, folios 1-9, 17-21. Hand 1 of Adv.MS.72.1.20. Average to poor in quality. Frequent rising ‘d’. Employs even more contractions than is usual in medical manuscripts. The ink has oxidised in places to an indistinct yellow. Rubricated in red. For a photograph of folio...
Dates:
16th century.