Durham University Library Archives & Special Collections Catalogue
Manuscript codex containing a 14th century copy of Usuard's Martyrologium. Annotations indicate that it was in Lincolnshire prior to being owned by John Tempest (of Old Durham, d. 1697) who gave it to George Davenport, who presented it to Bishop cosin's Library around 1670.
Parchment, quires with hairside outermost, outer edges cropped (see f.14v).
18, 28 (+ slip sewn to 5v), 3-68, 7-810
Prickings in outer margins, some cropped away. Written space 160 x 105 mm; ruled in sharp brown. 23 long lines per page.
Written in textura quadrata with hairlines, somewhat unevenly, by one hand. Slip sewn to f.12v also in textura, by another contemporary hand, perhaps that of addition in f.54v lower margin.
Text capitals lined with red. Initials: (i) to each day, 2 line, alternately blue and red, the blue with infilling and crude flourishing in red on f.1v-2r, 9v-11r and f.12v slip; (ii) f.1r, 3 line, bipartite blue and red.
Corrections and marginal additions, 14th/15th century, including decennovial numbers and dominical letters.
Bound in Durham by Hutchinson, millboards covered with 17th century calf blind-tooled with Hutchinson's roll A and tool no. 3, roll D on edges. Spine replaced mid 19th century.
Written in England, 14th century.
Perhaps from Lincolnshire to judge by supplementary feasts; “nota bene” against Gilbert of Sempringham (ii Non Feb.), 15th century, f.9r margin. “Ex donacione Magistri Cristoferi Massingberd Canonici Ecclesie Cathedralis beate marie Lincoln / Anno domini Millesimo Quingentesimo xiiijmo”, f.68v, probably recording a donation to a church or religious house; no books are mentioned in his will, 1 March, proved 28 April, 1553 (Prerogative Court of Canterbury). “papa” defaced in most instances, no doubt mid 16th century. “Jo. Heath”, f.1r, in the same 17th century hand as in Cosin MS V.v.6 and Durham Cathedral Library Inc. 17 (Livy, 1470) the latter given by Sir John Tempest. 1717. “Geo. Davenport Donum Johannis Tempest Armigeri. 1665.”, f.iv; Cosin MSS V.iv.2, V.iv.5 and V.iv.9 were also given to Davenport by John Tempest of the Isle (d. 1697), the husband of Elizabeth, daughter and sole heir of John Heath of Old Durham (d. 1664).
Supplemented in England. This copy contains almost all the changes of the second recension listed in Dubois 1965, 33-37. A few supplementary Northern French feasts, and many British ones, including Gilbert of Sempringham, Edmund Rich (canonised 1246) and the translation of Hugh of Lincoln (1280), also Lincoln relics on 27 August. 14th/15th century additions, probably in the same hand as some correction in anglicana: translation (1262) of Richard Wych (f.32v), Anne (f.39v, approved for England 1378), and “in hybernia sancti kenani episcopi et confessoris” [of Duleek, d.489] (f.62r). A piece of parchment 175 x 115 mm, stitched to the top of outside margin of f.12v, ruled in grey lead or ink, written in good smaller textura, red and black, 8 lines recto, 7 verso: “Notandum quod in anno bisextili hoc modo legatur leccio in martilogio in crastino cathedra sancti petri vio kal. Marcii. luna. N. Inuencio capitis precursoris ... Et tunc in die tercia ... Natalis beati mathie ... feliciter est susceptus. Et aliorum”. f.68r-v ruled but originally blank.
Catalogi veteres librorum Ecclesiae cathedralis
dunelm. Catalogues of the library of Durham cathedral, at
various periods, from the conquest to the dissolution, including
catalogues of the library of the abbey of Hulne, and of the mss.
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Surtees Society 7, (London: J.B. Nichols and Son, [1838]).
Usuard, Le martyrologe d'Usuard: texte et commentaire , ed. Jacques Dubois (Brussels: Société des Bollandistes, 1965)