Ussher (James)
- 1581–1656
- authors, scholars, archbishops
- Ard Macha
Anglican archbishop of Armagh known for his scholarship on a variety of subjects, including history and theology
See also: Thomas Allen [mathematician]Allen (Thomas) ... mathematician
(1540/1542?–1632)
English mathematician and antiquary.
See more Thomas ArthurArthur (Thomas)
(1593–1675)
Thomas Arthur FitzWilliam
Limerick physician educated at Bordeaux and a Catholic with an interest in devotional literature. One of his better known patients was bishop James Ussher, who at one time appears to have lent him a manuscript of the so-called Kilkenny recension of Latin lives of Irish saints. A manuscript of transcripts by Thomas is still extant.
See more Henry SpelmanSpelman (Henry)
(1563/4–1641)
English antiquary and author. He was appointed commissioner to investigate and settle disputes over estates in Ireland and visited Ireland on three occasions, the first one in 1617. It may have been during one of these visits that Spelman acquired the Irish manuscript now known as BL MS Harley 5280. Spelman was member of the College of Antiquaries and his contacts included James Ussher.
See more James WareWare (James)
(d. 1666)
(Sir) James Ware, Irish scholar, historian and antiquarian
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(1540/1542?–1632)
English mathematician and antiquary.
See more Thomas ArthurArthur (Thomas)
(1593–1675)
Thomas Arthur FitzWilliam
Limerick physician educated at Bordeaux and a Catholic with an interest in devotional literature. One of his better known patients was bishop James Ussher, who at one time appears to have lent him a manuscript of the so-called Kilkenny recension of Latin lives of Irish saints. A manuscript of transcripts by Thomas is still extant.
See more Henry SpelmanSpelman (Henry)
(1563/4–1641)
English antiquary and author. He was appointed commissioner to investigate and settle disputes over estates in Ireland and visited Ireland on three occasions, the first one in 1617. It may have been during one of these visits that Spelman acquired the Irish manuscript now known as BL MS Harley 5280. Spelman was member of the College of Antiquaries and his contacts included James Ussher.
See more James WareWare (James)
(d. 1666)
(Sir) James Ware, Irish scholar, historian and antiquarian
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Ó Cróinín, Dáibhí, “Archbishop James Ussher (1581–1656) and the history of the Easter controversy”, in: Immo Warntjes, and Dáibhí Ó Cróinín (eds), Late antique calendrical thought and its reception in the early Middle Ages: proceedings from the 3rd International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe, Galway, 16-18 July, 2010, 26, Turnhout: Brepols, 2017. 309–351.
abstract:
Archbishop James Ussher is probably best known for his reckoning of the date of the creation of the world (at the beginning of the night preceeding 23 October 4004 BC). However, his calculations were all based on a meticulous study of the Old Testament and other early Christian and non-Christian chronographical writings. This paper announces the discovery of a previously-unnoticed Oxford manuscript that lists the impressive array of patristic and post-patristic writings on the subject of the early Easter controversy that he accumulated for his researches.
Jaski, Bart, “The oldest datings of the Utrecht psalter: rudimentary palaeography in the early seventeenth century”, Quaerendo 45:1–2 (2015): 125–143.
abstract:
In the 1620s two attempts were made to date the Utrecht Psalter (c.830, in or around Reims): by its owner Robert Cotton and by the theologian James Ussher. Their results offer an insight into how a collector and a scholar practised palaeography before this became a modern study in the decades around 1700. The Utrecht Psalter, as well as the Cotton Genesis and other manuscripts, were dated in relation to their script, decoration and content. This case study underlines that the history of palaeography and codicology before Mabillon and Montfaucon is worth studying, not only in its own right, but also with regard to the development of humanism and its scholarly networks.
Hunter, Michael, “Boyle, Narcissus Marsh, and the Anglo-Irish intellectual scene in the late 17th century”, in: Michael Hunter, Boyle studies: aspects of the life and thought of Robert Boyle (1527–91), Farnham: Ashgate, 2015. 81–130.
Boran, Elizabethanne, “Ussher and the collection of manuscripts in early modern Europe”, in: Jason Harris, and Keith Sidwell (eds), Making Ireland Roman: Irish Neo-Latin writers and the republic of letters, Cork: Cork University Press, 2009. 176–194.
McGuire, James [ed.], and James Quinn [ed.], Dictionary of Irish biography, online ed., Online: Royal Irish Academy, Cambridge University Press, 2009–present. URL: <https://www.dib.ie>.
Ford, Alan, “Ussher, James (1581–1656)”, Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2009–.
Dumville, David N., “Charters from ‘The Book of Kells’ transcribed for James Ussher”, in: David N. Dumville, Celtic essays, 2001–2007, 2 vols, vol. 1, Aberdeen: Centre for Celtic Studies, University of Aberdeen, 2007. 233–256.
Cunningham, Bernadette, and Raymond Gillespie, “James Ussher and his Irish manuscripts”, Studia Hibernica 33 (2004): 81–99.
Oxford dictionary of national biography, Online: Oxford University Press, 2004–present. URL: <http://www.oxforddnb.com>.
comments: General editors include Lawrence Goldman, et al.
Mc Carthy, Daniel P., “The biblical chronology of James Ussher”, The Irish Astronomical Journal 24 (January, 1997): 73–82.
OʼSullivan, William, “Correspondence of David Rothe and James Ussher, 1619-23”, Collectanea Hibernica 36–37 (1994): 7–49.
Tite, Colin G. C., “’Lost or stolen or strayed’: a survey of manuscripts formerly in the Cottonian library”, The British Library Journal 18 (1992): 107–147.
OʼSullivan, Anne, “The colophon of the Cotton psalter (Vitellius F XI)”, The Journal of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland 96 (1966): 179–180.
Grosjean, Paul, “Notes sur quelques sources des Antiquitates de Jacques Ussher. Édition de la Vita Commani”, Analecta Bollandiana 77 (1959): 154–187.
[Introduction] -- I. Les Addenda de la première édition des Antiquitates -- II. Les Addenda de la seconde édition des Antiquitates -- III. S. Commán dans le martyrologes, les généalogies et les annales -- IV. La Vie latine de S. Commán de Ros Chommáin -- Vita sancti Commani, ex codice Bruxellensi 8972-8973, fol. 6-7, de quo supra p. 178 -- Appendice: Une lettre d’Henri Basnage à Papebroch.
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Oulton, J. E. L., “Ussher’s work as a patristic scholar and church historian”, Hermathena 88 (1956): 3–11.
Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 17, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on April 25, 1864. Contents: Advertisement by James H. Todd [incl. comments on the late Elrington] -- The causes of the continuance of contentions concerning church government -- Notes on three sermons -- Indexes [Names and subjects, etc.].
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 12, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on December 12, 1833.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 7, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on June 14, 1832.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 4, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on June 9, 1830.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 13, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on June 29, 1844.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 8, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on April 3, 1832.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1847–1864.
Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 14, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on May 17, 1862.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 9, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on June 14, 1832.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 1, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on January 5, 1848.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 15, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on May 18, 1834.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 10, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on October 13, 1832.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 2, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on November 7, 1829. Contents: I. De Christianarum ecclesiarum successione et statu historica explicatio [Gravissimae quaestionis de Christianarum ecclesiarum ... continua successione et statu historica explicatio (London, 1613)] -- II. A sermon preached before the Commons House of Parliament, 18th February, 1620 -- III. A speech delivered in the Castle Chamber, Dublin, 22nd November, 1622, concerning the Oath of Supremacy -- IV. A sermon preached before the King's Majesty, 20th June, 1624, on the Universality of the Church of Christ.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 16, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on November 6, 1846.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 11, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on August 1, 1832.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 3, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1864.
First issued on September 1, 1831.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 6: Brittanicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates, caput XIV-XVII, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1847.
First issued on October 30, 1831.
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Ussher, James, The whole works of James Ussher, ed. Charles Richard Elrington, 18 vols, vol. 5: Brittanicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates, caput I-XIII, Dublin: Hodges, Smith, 1847.
First issued on October 16, 1830.
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Ussher, James, and Charles Vallancey [ed.], “No. II (2). Of the original and first institution of corbes, erenachs, and termon lands, written by James Usher, afterwards arcbishop of Armagh, anno 1609”, in: Charles Vallancey [ed.] (ed.), Collectanea de rebus Hibernicis, 6 vols, vol. 1, 2nd ed., Dublin: Luke White, 1786. 179–207.
Ussher, James, Britannicarum ecclesiarum antiquitates: quibus inserta est pestiferae adversus Dei gratiam a Pelagio Britanno in ecclesiam inductae haereseos historia, Dublin, 1639.
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Ussher, James, Veterum epistolarum Hibernicarum sylloge, Dublin, Paris, 1632.
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