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Theological and historical 'Adversaria' of archbishop Ussher, 17th century

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A table of contents, numbering 75 articles, is inserted by another hand, probably James Tyrrell’s. Many of the items are only short notes out of various writers; and the following are those which call for special notice

  1. (fols. 1, 2, 162, and on fragment of old parchment cover) i. List of books lent to numerous persons.
  2. (fols. 7-26) Notae contra Bellarminum.
  3. (fol. 29b) Note of sermon, On Rev. xix. 7, on occasion of "Mrs. Bolton's marriage at the Castle", Dublin.
  4. (fol. 29b) Note of sermon, Ephes. i. 13, "last Sondaye in Aprill, 1618, and likewise Jan. 7 following".
  5. (fol. 34b) Note of sermon, Job xxvii. 8, 9, "Jul. 26, 1618".
  6. (fol. 37) Note of sermon, Heb. xi. 13, "Aprill 13, 1619, at the funerall of my L. Chancellour Jones, who dyed on Saturdaye Aprill 10, 1619, hora 6a matutina".
  7. (fol. 38) Note of sermon, Ps. cxxiv. 6, "Nov. 5, 1619, at St. Martin's in the fieldes".
  8. (fol. 56) Note of sermon, 1 Cor. xv. 56, "Mr. Midday's (?) funerall, September, 1621".
  9. (fol. 57) Note of sermon, At "Justice Palmer's funerall, the 1 Wednesday in December 162[0]".
  10. (fol. 58) Note of sermon, Gal. vi. 3, "Lond. Januar. 11, an. 1623".
  11. (fol. 58b) Note of sermon, 1 Joh. iii. 3, "Lond. Febr. 15, 1623".
  12. (fol. 59) Note of sermon, Eph. iv. 13, "Jun. 20, 1624, before his Majestye at Wansted".
  13. (fol. 62b) Note of sermon, Lam. iii. 40, 41, "Much Hadham, October 2, 1625".
  14. (fol. 67) Note of sermon, Eccles. ix. 12, "funer. of Bp. Moigne [of Kilmore], who dyed Januar. 1, 1628".
  15. (fol. 67b) Note of sermon, Ps. xlv. 16, "Jun. 15, 1630, before the State, at the sollemnizing of the Prince's birth".
  16. (fol. 72) Note of sermon, Neham. v. 15, "Julie ... 1633; lady Digby died about 3 o'clock in the morning" (struck out).
  17. (fol. 78) Note of sermon, 1 Pet. ii. 24, "Good Friday, 1634, at Christch.".
  18. (fol. 31b) iv. Notes of a Latin speech at the commencement at Trinity college, Dublin, Tuesday after Midsummer day, 1618.
  19. (fols. 80-93, 100b-104) v. Historical and chronological notes out of various early and mediaeval writers.
  20. (fols. 94, 96) Notes of contents of a MS. volume of Greek Homilies given to the Bodleian Library by Sir Hen. Savile [now Auct. E. ii. 6, in Coxe’s Catal. Miscell. 34], and notes of a few other Greek MSS.
  21. (fols. 94b-96b) Notes of a few MSS. in the libraries of Magdalen, Merton, and New colleges, Oxford, and elsewhere.
  22. (fol. 95) Information of preparations being made in Spain in May, 1627, for the invasion of Ireland in the following year.
  23. (fol. 98) Description of "Sir Rob. Cotton’s old Genesis in Greek".
  24. (fol. 98b) Notice of the Codex Bezae.
  25. (fol. 105b) Notice of the astronomical work of John Eschenden.
  26. (fols. 106b-110) Extracts from Philip O’Sullivan’s Hist. Cathol. Iberniae compendium, 1621.
  27. (fol. 111) Note that Q. Elizabeth and James I had no real surnames.
  28. (fol. 113b) Reply of Charles I at Newport in September 1648 to the demand for abolition of episcopacy.
  29. (fols. 114-116) Astronomical notes for the calendar.
  30. (fols. 3-13 [volume reversed]) Notes by another hand, Latin and English, on the Messiah.
  31. (fols. 17b-20 [volume reversed]) List of books, chiefly of civil and canon law, belonging to Sir Ambrose Forthe. "The books thus marked (*) were delivered to my brother Hilton".
  32. (fols. 25-36 [volume reversed]) Discourse in Latin and English on Prov. xxxi. 8. Written in a large, clumsy and indistinct hand.
  33. (fols. 38-42 [volume reversed]) Latin notes in the same hand upon the parable of Lazarus in St. Luke xvi.
  34. (fols. 31b-38b [volume reversed]) Notes by Ussher of "various readings and emendations of the English translation of the Bible," in all the books of the Old Test.
  35. (fols. 44-47 [volume reversed]) Notes by Ussher "de rebus Fratrum Bohemorum post restauratum nostris temporibus Evangelium", to 1538.

Dates

  • Creation: 17th century

Extent

162 Leaves

Language of Materials

  • English
  • Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
  • Latin

Shelfmark

MS. Rawl. D. 1290

Additional Description

Other Finding Aids

William D. Macray, Catalogi codicum manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Bodleianae partis quintae fasciculus primus viri munificentissimi Ricardi Rawlinson, J.C.D., codicum classes duas priores, ad rem historicam praecipue et topographicam spectantes, complectens(Oxford, 1862), no. D. 1290.

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series(7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. III, no. 15438.

Custodial History

"Suum cuique, Tho. Hearne, ex dono Jacobi Tyrrelli, armigeri, Usserii ex filia nepotis. Vol. 151, E. Pr. 103".

Physical Facet

On paper, in duodecimo, with a fragment of an old parchment cover

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