Reference code: GB-0298-UC/MS
Title: Ushaw College Manuscripts (1-47)
Dates of creation: 8th-17th century
Extent: 44 items
Held by: Ushaw College Library (most accessed at Palace Green Library)
Origination: Ushaw College Library
Language:
Latin
A group of manuscripts acquired by Ushaw College at various times, mainly codices but some rolls and fragments and mainly western medieval in origin and era. Exceptions are a Turkish codex, an Ethiopic prayer roll and two rolls listing Durham
recusants in the late 17th century.
Various; not always recorded.
Given under each manuscript.
Open for consultation. From July 2019 these manuscripts are located at Palace Green Library, and should be consulted there, with the exception of MSS 5, 17, 22 and 41 which remain at Ushaw College Library.
Permission to make any published use of material from the collection must be sought in advance from pg.library@durham.ac.uk and, where appropriate, from the copyright owner. The Library will assist where possible with identifying copyright
owners, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user of the material
N.R. Ker and A. Piper,
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries: IV Paisley - York (Oxford: OUP, 1992)
ManuscriptsUshaw MS 1 [mid 13th century]
Language:
Latin
Bible. Written in France. Imperfect: lacks large parts of Ecclesiasticus, Baruch, 2 Maccabees, all of Tobit and Jude, Wisdom and 1 Maccabees, also some of Acts.
Parchment xiv, 486 f
Size: 118 x 85 mm
Binding: 18th century English binding
Owned by Rooper family of Huntingdonshire.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 505-6
Ushaw MS 2 [mid 13th century]
Language:
Latin
Bible. Probably written in France.
Parchment iii, 461, iii f
Size: 178 x 125 mm
Binding: 19th century binding in dark blue morocco with instruments of the Passion in gilt on spine
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 506-8
Ushaw MS 3 [mid 14th century]
Language:
Latin
Bible. Written in England. With a dictionary of Hebrew names.
Parchment i, 428 f
Size: 376 x 250 mm
Binding: 19th century binding
Owned by Sir Thomas Tempest, 3rd Bart.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 508-9
Ushaw MS 4 [12/13th century and 13th century]
Language:
Latin
Bible, in 3 parts: part A written in ?Germany. Parts B and C written in Italy.
Parchment 441 f
Size: 195 x 140 mm; 125 x 90 mm
Binding: 18th century German binding
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 509-10
Ushaw MS 5 [mid 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Esh Missal. Missal of Sarum use.
Parchment 254 f
Size: 250 x 175 mm
Binding: 19th century binding by Andrews of Durham, probably using medieval bevelled wooden boards.
Held at Ushaw College Library
With inscription by John Rudde, d.1490 giving it to the chapel at Esh. Notes by John Walche, early 16th century curate of Esh. Probably preserved by the Smyth family of Esh and Acton Burnell from whom the Ushaw estate was acquired for the College
in 1808.
Ushaw MS 6 [12th century; 12/13th century]
Language:
Latin
Geoffrey of Monmouth,
Historia Britonum. Henry of Huntingdon, Historia Anglorum. Written in England.
Parchment 242 f
Size: 184 x 125 mm
Binding: Contemporary white leather binding over thick wooden boards, Leather ears project over top and foot of spine.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 512-3
Ushaw MS 7 [13th century]
Language:
Latin
Psalter. Written in England. With Norwich Cathedral priory shelfmark. Calendar etc. written for Norwich Cathedral with local feasts.
Parchment v, 137 f
Size: 173 x 120 mm
Binding: Late 15th/early 16th century brown leather binding with wooden boards
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 513-4
Ushaw MS 8 [early 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Bobbingworth Psalter. Richly illuminated. Written in England. Obits of Sir William Estfield, alderman of London 1446, and his wife Julia, 1437. Dedication to the church of High Ongar, Essex. With births and deaths of the Walsingham family
Parchment iv,184,iv f
Size: 357 x 242 mm
Binding: 18th century gold-tooled binding with goffered edges
“Ex libris vic. ap. sep. distric.”. Given to Ushaw via the library of the Vicar Apostolic of the Northern District.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 514-6
Ushaw MS 9 [12th century]
Language:
Latin
Missal leaves. Written in England. 2 leaves from a missal written 1150-1200 probably in the diocese of Lincoln.
Parchment 2 f
Pastedowns removed in the earlier 20th century from Ushaw B.2.13
Theophylacti Archiepiscopi Bulgariæ Commentarii in quatuor Euangelia (Paris: Apud Carolum Morellum, 1635)
Ushaw MS 10 1409
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written and dated at Bruges by scribe named Johannes Heineman. Use of Sarum. 24 full page miniatures. Calendar has obit of Sir William Plumpton (d.1480).
Parchment 133 f
Size: 205 x 135 mm
Binding: 16th century English binding. Blind-stamped panels on brown leather covers over wooden boards. Oldham Misc stamps 2 and ST.48.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 516-9
Ushaw MS 11 [second half of 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written and illuminated in the Low Countries for English use.
Parchment iii, 216, ii f
Size: 205 x 135 mm
Binding: 18th century binding
“John Edward Breen London” September 18/1799.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 519-21
Ushaw MS 12
Language:
Latin
Horae. First half of 15th century. Written and illuminated in Low Countries for English use.
Parchment x, 121 f
Size: 157 x 120 mm
Binding: 18th century binding
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 521-2
Ushaw MS 13 [mid-15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Use of Sarum. Written in England. Illuminated initials.
Parchment ii, 104 f
Size: 148 x 108 mm
Binding: 19th century binding
Bookplate: In memoriam Mary Iveson Wilson presented to the Very Revd Dean Francis I. Hall 1907.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 522
Ushaw MS 14 [early 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Use of Sarum. Written in Netherlands for English use. Illuminated.
Parchment 81 f
Size: 210 x 150 mm
Binding: Contemporary pink leather binding covering wooden bevelled boards
Belonged to the Meynell family of North Yorkshire in 17th century. Also inscriptions of Roger Man and William Alincon, 18th century.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 523-4
Ushaw MS 15 [early 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Use of Sarum. Written in England. Inscription of Thomas Whythorne, lutenist and composer (1528-96).
Parchment 110 f
Size: 172 x 123 mm
Binding: 16th century English binding. Bare pasteboard without covers; rebacked
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 524-5
Ushaw MS 16 [first half of 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written in England.
Parchment 120, iii f
Size: 79 x 56 mm
Binding: 17th century binding; rebacked
18th century inscription of John Yaxlee, Roman Catholic priest, died at Coxhoe, Co. Durham. Left books to Vicars Apostolic of the North.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 525
Ushaw MS 17 [15th/16th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written and illuminated in France ?Besançon.
Parchment ii, 105, ii f
Size: 134 x 95 mm
Binding: 19th century English binding
Held at Ushaw College Library
Bookplate f.i of Alice Edelston of Gainford who gave the book to Ushaw in May 1953.
Inscription “Peter Bolomier (Rossillione) d.1461”. Bookplate of Lord Brougham and Vaux inside front cover. “Bought at Johnsons, Trinity St Cambridge in 1886” probably by Joseph Edleston, fellow of Trinity College Cambridge and vicar of Gainford.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 525-6
Ushaw MS 18 [second half of 14th century]
Language:
Latin
Missal. Sarum use. Written and illuminated in England.
Parchment ii, 500 f
Size: 192 x 125 mm
Binding: 17th century vellum binding over pasteboard with gilt cornerpieces
Inscription implies it was a gift to the church of Eastwell, Kent, from Bishop Goldwell of Norwich (d.1499) who came from the neighbouring parish of Great Chart in Kent. 17th century inscriptions by William Goodman and Henry Godman. Given to
Ushaw by John Lingard in 1812 soon after he had left Ushaw for Hornby in Lancashire.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 527-9
Ushaw MS 19 [first half of 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Compendium theologicae veritatis. Usually attributed to Albertus Magnus. Written in the Netherlands perhaps near Utrecht.
Parchment 216 f
Size: 168 x 116 mm
Binding: Contemporary pink leather binding over wooden bevelled boards.
Ownership inscriptions of a priest and of the sisters of the 3rd order of St Francis at Bethlehem near Utrecht late 15th/early 16th century.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 529-30
Ushaw MS 20 [second part of 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Parchment 217 f
Size: 203 x 140 mm
Binding: Contemporary French binding with blind-stamped leather binding over wooden boards. Stamps of lamb and flag, rose, dragon and another. Rebacked.
Horae. Use of Bourges. Calendar in French. Devotions in Latin and French. Written and illuminated in France.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 530-1
Ushaw MS 21 [second part of 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written and illuminated in France. Use of Rouen.
Parchment 111 f
Size: 160 x 115 mm
Binding: 17th century binding
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 531-2
Ushaw MS 22 [second part of 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written and illuminated in north-east France or Flanders. Use of Rome. Arms on one page and note on the death of Captain Filbert de Sucre at Milan 4 September 1534.
Parchment 217 f
Size: 162 x 126 mm
Binding: 18th century binding
Held at Ushaw College Library
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 532-3
Ushaw MS 23 [mid 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written and illuminated in France. Calendar for diocese of Sées, the rest suggests diocese of Bourges.
Parchment i, 143, i f
Size: 172 x 130 mm
Binding: 19th century binding of red velver covers over wooden boards with 2 silver clasps
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 534
Ushaw MS 24 [mid 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written and illuminated in France.
Parchment 132 f
Size: 207 x 152 mm
Binding: 19th binding reusing medieval wooden boards
18th century bookplate for Nicolas Joseph Foucault (1643-1721) notable book collector as well as French government official. Also of Sir John Anstruther, Bart (1753-1811).
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 534-6
Ushaw MS 25 [late 15th century, after 1493]
Language:
Latin
Durham Cathedral Priory. Sacrist’s cartulary. Annotations referring to other documents in the hand of Thomas Swalwell, monk of Durham, and others.
Parchment i, 131 f
Size: 360 x 244 mm
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped binding
Probably left Cathedral archives via James Raine: his Surtees Society volume
Historiae Dunelmensis Scriptores Tres, published in 1839, includes no indication of its location, implying that it was then still in the Cathedral Treasury.
Catalogue
Ushaw MS 26 [late 13th century]
Language:
Latin
Vita Beate Virginis. Written Germany/Low Countries.
Parchment 142 f
Size: 156 x115 mm
Binding: Contemporary binding
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 536
Ushaw MS 27 [early 16th century]
Language:
German
Prayer book. Written in Central Bavaria.
Parchment 180 f
Size: 143 x 108 mm
Binding: Contemporary blind-stamped binding
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 537
Ushaw MS 28 [15th century]
Language:
Latin
Speculum Christianorum and other works. Written in England.
Parchment iv, 206, iii f
Size: 88 x 55 mm
Binding: Contemporary binding, white leather over wooden boards
John Lawson, gift of Revd T. Dawson
Former Ushaw location Ushaw XVIII D.7.8
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 537-8
Ushaw MS 30 [15th/16th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written in France.
Paper 155 f
Size: 105 x 75 mm
Binding: 16th century pigskin binding over pasteboards
Former Ushaw location Ushaw XVIII D.7.4
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 540-1
Ushaw MS 31 [early 16th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Written in Germany.
Paper 178 f
Size: 105 x 75 mm
Binding: 19th century binding by Townsend
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 542-3
Ushaw MS 32 [late 12th century]
Language:
Latin
Gregory the Great:
Moralia. Books 1-5. Written in Northern France or Belgium.
Parchment i, 145, i f
Size: 317 x 215 mm
Binding: 19th century binding
Ex-libris of Cistercian abbey of Villars.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 543-4
Ushaw MS 33 1468
Language:
Latin
J. Herolt,
Promptuarium discipuli, sermones, etc. Written in Germany.
Paper ii, 316, ii f
Size: 275 x 205 mm
Binding: 19th century binding
Former Ushaw location Ushaw XVIII F.5.7
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 544-5
Ushaw MS 34 [15th century]
Language:
Latin
Antiphonal. Italy. Imperfect. With music.
Parchment i, 90 f
Size: 340 x 230 mm
Binding: 20th century binding
Former Ushaw location Ushaw XVIII F.5.5
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 545-6
Ushaw MS 35 [mid 15th century]
Language:
Latin
Gradual (Franciscan). Written in Italian. Imperfect. With historiated initials.
Parchment 119, i f
Size: 590 x 440 mm
Binding:
Former Ushaw location Ushaw XVIII.F.1.19
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 546
Ushaw MS 36 [late 13th century]
Language:
Latin
Eberhard of Bethune: Grecismus. Written in England. Imperfect.
Parchment 50 f
Size: 225 x 165 mm
Binding: unbound
Former Ushaw location Ushaw XVIII.C.10
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 546-7
Ushaw MS 37 [second half of 15th century]
Language:
Ottoman Turkish
Ahmed Sinan Bihisti:
Khamsa. Imperfect and misbound.
Parchment 207 f
Size: 255 x 160 mm
Binding: Contemporary binding, brown leather gold central stamp; rebound 19th century
Former Ushaw location Ushaw XVIII.F.5.8
Detailed description of manuscript by V. L. Ménage, 1957.
Ushaw MS 38 [undated]
Language:
Ge'ez
Ethiopian protective or “magic” scroll, formerly miscatalogued as a “Coptic prayer-roll” .
Parchment 1 roll
Ushaw MS 39 [late 17th century]
Language:
English
Recusant roll. List of Roman Catholics in Durham City
Parchment 1 roll
Ushaw MS 40 1673-1674
Language:
English
Recusant roll. 1673-74. Copy of part of recusant Roll 1673-4 listing Roman Catholics from Durham County convicted of recusancy.
Parchment 1 roll; 3 membranes
Ushaw MS 41 [early 13th century]
Language:
Latin
Ritual (Augustinian). Written in southern Netherlands. Ex-libris, abbey of Parc.
Parchment i 185, ii f
Size: 260 x 190 mm
Binding: early 19th century binding, preserving earlier covers stamped with armorial of Praemonstratensian abbey of Parc (near Louvain)
Held at Ushaw College Library
Deposited by parish of Sacred Heart, Coniston, Lancaster diocese.
Former Ushaw location Ushaw XVIII.B.2.14
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 547-8
Ushaw MS 42 [14th/15th century]
Language:
Latin
[Pseudo] Bernard and Augustine:
Meditaciones. Written in England. With Latin additions.
Parchment 21 f
Size: 210 x 145 mm
Binding: Limp vellum binding
Former owners: Canon Edward Tuohey, presented to Ushaw College 1965.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 548-9
Ushaw MS 43 [16th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae. Sarum use. Written in the Netherlands. Miniature book of hours. With arms of Richard, Duke of York (1411-60).
Parchment iii, 152, ii f
Size: 87 x 60 mm
Binding: 17th century binding
From English College at Lisbon.
Catalogued:
Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, iv (Oxford: 1992), 549-51
Ushaw MS 44 [mid-8th century
Language:
Latin
Fragment of a manuscript of the Christmas liturgy written in Northumberland
Parchment 1 piece
Binding fragment from Ushaw XVIII B.1.2 -
Fortalitium fidei (Nuremberg: Anton Koberger, 1485)
Ushaw MS 45 [9th century]
Language:
Latin
Fragment of St Jerome: Commentary on Matthew, chapter 23. Part of bifolium.
Parchment 1 piece
Cut down to provide a limp binding for Ushaw XVIII.B.7.10 (
Opusculum multarum bonarum rerum refertum, Venice: 16 June 1516.) Now mounted between glass sheets
Ushaw MS 46 [15th century]
Language:
Latin
Horae, Sarum Use. Probably written in Flanders
Parchment 132 f
Size: 215 x 145 mm
Left to Ushaw College by the late Dr A.I. Doyle, 2018
Ushaw MS 47 [Late 17th/early 18th century]
Language:
English
Manuscript prayerbook of Jane Widdrington, possibly the daughter (d. 1714) of Sir Thomas Tempest
Paper 92 f
Size: 120 x 80 mm
Left to Ushaw College by Dr A.I. Doyle, 2018
