The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for April 2026 is London, British Library MS Egerton 159, written in 1592 by the Leinster physician Tadhg Mac Caisín and recently digitised for the @researchireland.ie LEIGHEAS project! Read more about it here:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
3/3 ✒️ CF 29 & PB 11: Devotion & Tradition
Denis Murray (1813–1822): grammar, spiritual verse, Beatha san margreid, and Sgiaithluithreach Cholm Cille.
Plus PB 11: Críchad an Chaoille, copied by Seosamh Ó Longáin (1860).
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
2/3 ✒️ CF 30: Grammar & Poetry
By Seán Ó Coileáin (early 19th c.).
Irish grammar, Ogham & cryptography, plus Comhagal: An Bás agus an tOthar.
Includes bilingual verse, maritime poetry & Machtnamh an Duine Dhoilghíosaigh (1813).
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
1/3 📜✨ New on ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth
Three Irish-language manuscripts (19th c.).
Grammar, poetry, devotion & tradition, scribes Seán Ó Coileáin, Denis Murray & Seosamh Ó Longáin.
Ogham lore, spiritual texts & literary reflection.
🙏 Thanks to
@mulibrary.bsky.social
@dias.ie
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Beannachtaí na Féile Pádraig! The Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for March 2026 is Dublin, @ria.ie MS 23 O 6, containing texts on uroscopy, poisons & their antidotes, the medicinal virtues of whiskey and these cool marginal drawings of fish:
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Our #Manuscript of the Month for March is MS12 which tells the tale of the #Iliad. Including the destruction of #Troy and the search for the #GoldenFleece. It was written in 1492 and can be seen fully digitized here through @dias-isos.bsky.social
www.isos.dias.ie/KINGS/KINGS_...
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A three column list of animals, fish and insects in English, Irish and Latin. Includes cockle, cow, cuttle, cricket.
From our unique Irish #Manuscripts Collection
"The Names in English, Irish, and Latin; of Birds, Beasts, Fishes, Reptiles, or Insects, which are known and propagated in Ireland"
See it here:
www.isos.dias.ie/KINGS/KINGS_...
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Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
Blagiontráíl nua: Táin Bó Cuailnge ó Éirinn go dtí an Astráil agus ar líne! Léigh anois! www.ria.ie/blog/tain-bo...
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Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie: www.ria.ie/collections/... The MS of the Week is on display in the Reading Room of the Library this week from 10.00-16.30, Monday-Friday. No appointment or reader’s ticket required.
A very cool 18ᵗʰ/19ᵗʰ-century manuscript from the Russell Library at @mulibrary.bsky.social @maynoothuniversity.ie. From p. 75 onwards (www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...), it contains a fascinating variety of "cryptographic" variants of the ogam script, including the "Vergean Cryptography" (i.e...
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3/3 ✒️ CF 23: Sagas, Poetry & Genealogies
Dublin, 1745–47, by Seán Ó Laochadh.
Fenian and Ulster Cycle tales, romantic adventures & historical lore.
Poems by leading bardic poets and extensive Irish genealogical material.
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
2/3 ✒️ CF 15: Saothar Sheáin Uí Choileáin
Carraig na bhFear, 1842 by Pól Ó Longáin for Fr. Muiris Cinniféic.
Features Comhagal idir an Bás agus an tOthar (Death & the Patient) in Irish & English verse, plus a tract on Ogham, cryptography & the origins of Irish.
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
1/3 📜✨ New on ISOS: Russell Library, Maynooth
Two remarkable Irish-language manuscripts (18th & 19th c.).
Scribes include Pól Ó Longáin & Seán Ó Laochadh.
Dialogues, Ogham lore, heroic saga, poetry & genealogies.
🙏Thanks to
@mulibrary.bsky.social
@dias.ie
@dias-isos.bsky.social
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Visit @dias-isos.bsky.social to view the whole text: www.isos.dias.ie/RIA/RIA_MS_2...
You can also visit the @ucc.ie resource Corpus of Electronic Texts Edition (CELT) to view a transcription and to find more information about translations and critical editions. celt.ucc.ie/published/G2...
Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie www.ria.ie/collections/...
Another year, another series of Irish medical manuscripts! The LEIGHEAS project Manuscript of the Month for January 2026 is Dublin, TCD 1357 (H.4.16), written in Co. Mayo in 1563 and containing several texts on uroscopy:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
...It includes the name of the signs of the Zodiac, the planets, the months and numeral figures. Read more about the manuscript and view the digital images, provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social and copyright @ria.ie: www.ria.ie/collections/...
Drawing of a man in profile smoking a long pipe in the margins of a medieval manuscript
Here's a scribe who drew what he would rather be doing than working - smoking a pipe. In the @kingsinns.bsky.social we hold numerous Irish Manuscripts that discuss the history of Ireland, Greek Myths and Christianity
www.isos.dias.ie/collection/k...
View it online with @dias-isos.bsky.social
It was written in Irish in 1631 at the Franciscan convent of Lisgoole beside Lough Erne, Co. Fermanagh. About two thirds of the manuscript survives.
Learn more & view the digital images of the Manuscript (provided by @dias-isos.bsky.social ©️RIA Library) on our website: www.ria.ie/collections/...
The LEIGHEAS project Irish Medical Manuscript of the Month for December 2025 is TCD MS 1435 (E.3.30), containing Irish versions of works by Petrus de Argellata, Bernard of Gordon & John of Gaddesden, as well as this diagram of the 7 tunics of the eye:
leigheas.maynoothuniversity.ie/leigheas-man...
4/4 ✒️CF 5: Dánta Diaga
Devotional poetry in Ó Mathghamhna’s hand (c.1842), on watermarked paper (1819).
Poets include Doamhnall mac Dáire, Donnchadh Mór Ó Dála, Aonghus Ó Dála Fionn, Fearghal Óg Mac an Bhaird verses to the Passion, Cross, Mary, saints & salvation
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
3/4 ✒️ CF 4: Caithréim Thoirdhealbhaigh
Leabhar Muimhneach
Written 1840–42 in Carraig na bhFear by Pól Uí Longáin.
Sagas of Thomond + major Munster genealogies (Ó Súilleabháin, Mhic Cárthaigh, Ó Caoimh, Clann Charrtha, & more).
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
2/4 ✒️ CF 2: As Leabhar Leasa Móir
Written 1844–45 in Cork by Éamonn Ó Mathghamhna. Includes Leabhar na gCeart, saints’ lives, Saltair na Muice, An tAcallamh BEC. & lore on kingship and Fenians.
🔗 www.isos.dias.ie/NUIM/NUIM_MS...
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1/4📜✨New on ISOS: from the Russell Library, Maynooth
three 19th-c. Manuscripts for Fr. Muiris Cinniféic,
scribes Éamonn Ó Mathghamhna & Pól Ó Longáin.
Saints’ lives, genealogies, law, devotional, etc
links to Book of Lismore & the Leabhar Muimhneach.
🙏Thanks to
@mulibrary.bsky.social
@dias.ie
The manuscript of the week is RIA MS 23 P 16, Leabhar Breac. Written in Irish by Murchadh Riabach Ó Cuindlis, at Cluain Lethan and Lothra (Lorrha) in Múscraige Tíre, in north Co. Tipperary, it is the largest Irish vellum manuscript by one scribe.
And also a huge thanks to @dias-isos.bsky.social for making it happen!
Really looking forward to discussing these manuscripts at @anzamems.bsky.social Conference in just three short weeks!
4/4With gratitude to Kathleen Kilmartin, Director of the Academic Centre (Newman & St Mary’s) for facilitating access to the Australian manuscript that inspired this project & to the Royal Irish Academy for their ongoing commitment to making Gaelic manuscripts accessible to all. Thanks also to DIAS.