Medieval Manuscripts in the University Library
General information
The great majority of the medieval book manuscripts among the Library's holdings are among the Cosin manuscripts. See the description of that collection for details of contents, finding-aids, etc. Others are among the Mickleton & Spearman manuscripts, the Additional manuscripts, the Bamburgh Collection, the St. Chad's Deposit, and bound with early printed books in the SR sequence.
All are described in the Draft Catalogue of Medieval Manuscripts in the Search Room by Dr A.I. Doyle and Mr A.J. Piper.
| MS. No. | Contents | Date |
| Add. 482 | Bonaventura, Breviloquium. | s.xv in. |
| Add. 754 | The Poor Caitiff | s.xv in. |
| Add. 767 | Peter Comestor, etc. | s.xiii in.-xv in. |
| BAM 6. | Psalterium, etc. | s.xii/xiii |
| BAM 25. | Psalterium, etc. | s.xv. |
| V.I.1 | Origen, Homeliae in O.T. | s.xii2 |
| V.I.2 | Breviarium sec. usum Ebor., cum notis, defect. | s.xv med. |
| V.I.3 | Breviarium sec. usum Sarum, cum notis, defect. | s.xv1 |
| V.I.4 | P. Lombardus, In Psalmos | s.xii ex. |
| V.I.5 | P. Lombardus, Sententiarum libri iv | s.xii ex. |
| V.I.6 | P. Lombardus, Sententiarum libri iv | s.xiii med. |
| V.I.7 | Rog. Waltham, Compendium morale; etc. | s.xv med. |
| V.I.8 | Anselm; Augustine | s.xiv1 |
| V.I.9 | Giles of Rome, Gouvernement des rois | s.xiv ex. |
| V.I.10 | J. de Mandeville (in French) | s.xv in. |
| V.I.11 | Aelred of Rievaulx; Achard of St Victor | s.xii/xiii |
| V.I.12 | Ephrem Syrus; etc. | s.xv med. |
| V.I.13 | Bernardus, Rabbi Samuel, Origen, H. Suso, etc. | s.xiv/xv |
| V.II.1 | Liber Numerorum, cum glossa | s.xii ex. |
| V.II.2 | Ruth - Esther cum glossa, Aelred; Augustine | s.xii in. - ex. |
| V.II.3 | Augustinus, Methodius | s.xiv ex; xv1-xv med. |
| V.II.4 | Peter Aureolus; tabula patristica | s.xiv ex./xv in. |
| V.II.5 | Miscellanea theologica, etc. | s.xiv1 |
| V.II.6 | Symeon, Historia Ecclesiae Dunelm. | s.xii in., ex., xvi ex. |
| V.II.7 | William Peraldus, Summa de vitiis | s.xiv med. |
| V.II.8 | Sermons of Odo, Peter of Rheims, etc. | s.xiii med. |
| V.II.9 | Quaestiones theologicae | s.xiii med.-xiii/xiv |
| V.II.10 | Richard FitzNeale, Dialogus de scaccario. | s.xvii |
| V.II.11 | Boethius, cum Comment. N. Trivet, etc. | s.xiv ex. |
| V.II.12 | G. de Columnis, Ps.-Turpin, etc. | s.xv in. |
| V.II.13 | Chaucer, Troilus and Criseyde; etc. | s.xv med. |
| V.II.14 | J. Lydgate, Sege of Thebes; etc. | s.xv med. |
| V.II.15 | Boethius, trans. J. Walton, De consolatione philosophiae | s.xv2 |
| V.II.16 | J. Lydgate, Life of B.V.M. | s.xv med. |
| V.II.17 | Anseis de Carthage, Ogier le Danois (in French) | s.xiii2 |
| V.III.1 | Laurentius Dunelm. | s.xii med.-xii2 |
| V.III.2 | Sermones | s.xiii in. |
| V.III.3 | Clemens V, Constitutiones; etc.; Summae super Decretum | s.xiv med.; s.xii2 |
| V.III.4 | Bonifacius VIII, Liber sextus decretalium; etc. | s.xiii/xiv |
| V.III.5 | J. Mirk, Festial | s.xv med. |
| V.III.6 | Lollard dialogue; | s.xiv ex. &xvi/xvii |
| V.III.7 | J. Mandeville, Peregrinatio; etc. | s.xv ex. |
| V.III.8 | Pseudo-Bonaventure in English | s.xv in. |
| V.III.9 | Thomas Hoccleve | 1421 x 1426 |
| V.III.10 | Medica, Astronomica, Grammatica, etc. (much in English) | s.xv med/ex. & s.xiv/xv |
| V.III.11 | Recipes, etc. | s.xv in. |
| V.III.12 | E. de Evesham, Quadrilogus de T. Becket; etc. | |
| V.III.13 | Pontificale cum notis | s.xiii1 |
| V.III.14 | Ralph Ardens, Sermones de tempore | s.xv med. |
| V.III.15 | Jac. de Cessolis | s.xiv med. |
| V.III.16 | Miscellanea theologica | s.xv ex./xvi in. |
| V.III.17 | Usuardus, Martyrologium | s.xiv/xv |
| V.III.18 | Franciscan tracts on poverty | s.xiv1 (post 1322) |
| V.III.19 | R. Higden, Polychronicon extr.; etc. | s.xv in. |
| V.III.20 | Isidorus, Ethymologiae; W. Brito, Vocabuli Bibliae | s.xiii med. |
| V.III.21 | Manuale Sarum, cum notis | s.xiv/xv |
| V.III.22 | Visio Thurkilli; Albertanus Brixiensis; etc. | s.xiv in; s.xiv/xv |
| V.III.23 | Rosarium B.V.M. Note 1 | |
| V.III.24 | Doctrine of the Hert; Tree, and Fruits of the Holy Ghost. | s.xv med. |
| V.IV.1 | Medica (Latin, French and English) | s.xv in.- ex. |
| V.IV.2 | Fasciculus Morum, abridged; etc. | 1477 |
| V.IV.3 | Sunday sermons: Advent, Lent, Easter (in English) | s.xv med. |
| V.IV.4 | Jan van Wackerzele, Life of St Barbara (in English), etc. | s.xv med. |
| V.IV.5 | Statuta Angliae temp. Ed. III | s.xiv2 |
| V.IV.6 | Contemplations of the dread and love of God. | s.xv med. |
| V.IV.7 | Astrologia & Medica (Eng. & Lat.) | s.xv med. |
| V.IV.8 | Medical recipes in English. | s.xv in. |
| V.IV.9 | J. de Hildesheim; etc. | s.xv1 |
| V.V.1 | New Testament, etc. (in English) | s.xiv ex. |
| V.V.2 | A. de Insulis, etc. | s.xv med. |
| V.V.3 | Sermones | s.xiii ex. |
| V.V.4 | Sermones; Sententiae; Alfraganus; etc. | s.xii ex; s.xiii ex. |
| V.V.5. | Horae | s.xv in. |
| V.V.6 | Kyriale, Graduale, Tonale, etc. | s.xi ex. |
| V.V.7 | Synodalia | s.xiv med. |
| V.V.8 | Radulphus; Origen; Bernard | s.xii med. |
| V.V.9 | Miscellanea (Lat., Eng. & Fr.) | s.xii-xv |
| V.V.12 | Devotionalia | s.xv/xvi |
| V.V.13 | Medica (partly in English or French) | s.xv ex. |
| V.V.14 | Theologica | s.xiv/xv |
| V.V.15 | Wm Rimington, Edmund Rich, Macer | s.xiii2-xv med. |
| V.V.17 | Biblia | s.xiii |
| V.V.18 | Biblia | s.xiii |
| V.V.19 | Miscellenea theologica; De S. Johanne Bridlington.; etc. | s.xvi in. |
| M&S 27 | Statuta Angliae | s.xiv/xv |
| M&S 57 | Statuta Collegii de North Cadbury | 1428. |
| M&S 89 | Peter of Limoges | s.xiii/xiv |
| S.R. 2.B.3 | Sermones, etc. | s.xv2; 1480. |
| S.R. 3.A.4 | Petrus Dorlandus | 1497. |
| St Chad's 1 | Antiphonale O.Cist. | s.xiii in. |
| St Chad's 2 | Horae | s.xv1 |
Abbreviations
The collections are: Add. - Additional Manuscripts; BAM - Bamburgh Castle Select manuscripts; V.etc - Cosin manuscripts reference numbers; M&S - Mickleton and Spearman; S.R. - manuscripts from Routh collection.
Notes
1. Cosin V.III.23 reported as missing 1 July 1881; now B.L. MS Egerton 1821, and catalogued as acquired in 1860, see Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum. 1854-1875, ii, (1877, repr. 1967), p. 889.
