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Total number of records: 39

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	38
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	38

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
commonplace-books	39
english poetry	38
recipes	5
latin poetry	2
sermons	2
letters	2
jacobites	2
english drama	2
proverbs	1
prayers	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Coles, Benjamin	2
Southwell, Robert	1
Scott, George	1
Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)	1
Sylvester, Josuah (1563-1618)	1
Wodehouse, Philip (1608-1681)	1
Wodehouse, Edmund	1
Tempest, Jo	1
Marriott, Eliza	1
Fairfax, William (1593-1621)	1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1600	17
From 1700	21
From 1800	1

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1699	10
Up to 1799	26
Up to 1899	2
Up to latest	1

Frederick William Rolfe, (Baron Corvo), collection

Commonplace book containing original and transcribed eighteenth and early nineteenth-century English verse and prose, including references to several theatrical performances.

Commonplace book containing draft legal warrants, culinary and medical recipes, mathematical notes, moral precepts, and English verse from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.