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Total number of records: 1077
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | 956 |
| Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930) | 5 |
| G. T (1595-1675) | 5 |
| Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton | 4 |
| Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606) | 3 |
| Jonson, Ben (1573?-1637) | 3 |
| Huth, Henry (1815-1878) | 3 |
| Bedford, Francis (1799-1883) | 3 |
| Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D) | 3 |
| Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824) | 3 |
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Safe (Brotherton Collection)
The safe collection is an artifical gathering of rare printed books and individual manuscripts.
Travelling Library
1617
A box resembling a single folio book, containing 43 small volumes. This Jacobean travelling library is one of four of a similar kind, the others being in the British Library, the Huntington Library ...
Letter from Henry VII of England to Louis XII of France.
King Henry VII of England
11 Oct c. 1498-1509
The letter refers to false reports and news which Louis XII had received from Sir "de la Grutuze"?? Written in a Secretary hand by one of Henry VII's clerks, and signed by him "Votre bon et loyal frer...
Letter from James I of England to his mother-in-law, Sophia von Mecklenburg-Güstrow, dowager Queen of Denmark.
King James I
The letter refers to the marriage of James I and Anne of Denmark.
Sir Philip Sydneys Ourania, that is, Endimions song and tragedie, containing all philosophie. Written by N.B
Baxter, Nathaniel (fl.1606); Breton, Nicholas (1545?-1626?)
1606
N.B. = Nathaniel Baxter. Sometimes attributed to Nicholas Breton.
Lib[er] cronicarum : cu[m] figuris et ymagi[ni]bus ab inicio mu[n]di
Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514); Wolgemut, Michael (1434-1519); Pleydenwurff, Wilhelm (1494); Schreyer, Sebald (1446-1520); Kammermeister, Sebastian (1446-1503); Koberger, Anton (1440-1513); Riviere, Robert (1808-1882); Coleridge, John Duke Coleridge Baron (1820-1894); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)
Anno salutis n[ost]r[a]e 1493. [12 July 1493]
No signatures. Title extracted from woodcut title of register (leaf [1ar]), which begins: Registrum huius operis Libri cronicarum. Imprint from the colophon on the verso of leaf [CCC]. Colophon ...
Incipit liber qui vocatur Speculum Xpristiani
Watton, John (1360-1370); Frankenberg, Johann Heinrich von (1726-1804); Machlinia, William de (1481-1486); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)
[about 1485]
Signatures: [A-L⁸ M⁶ N⁴ O⁸ P-Q⁶]. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on [Q5v] reads: Iste libellus imp[re]ssus est i[n] opulentissima ciuitate Londoniar[um] p[er] me Willelmu[m] de Machlini...
The prouffytable boke for ma[n]nes soule, and right comfortable to the body, and specyally in aduersitee [and] trybulacyon, whiche boke is called The chastysing of goddes chyldern
Worde, Wynkyn de; Bedford, Francis (1799-1883); Huth, Henry (1815-1878); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)
[about 1492-93]
Signatures: [*]² A-G⁶ H⁴. Imprint from ISTC. Printed in two columns with 36 lines to a full column. Ornamental woodcut initials on [*1v] and A1r. Woodcut initials throughout. Indexed in...
[A leaf from the first printed Bible]
Gutenberg, Johann (1397?-1468); Fust, Johannes (1400-1466); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)
[about 1455]
Imprint from ISTC. Printed in two columns with 42 lines to a full column.
[Two half leaves from the first dated Bible]
Fust, Johannes (1400-1466); Schöffer, Peter (1425-1502); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)
[14 August 1462]
Imprint from ISTC. Printed in two columns with 48 lines to a full column.
[Epitome margaritae eloquentiae]
Traversagni, Lorenzo Guglielmo (1425-1503); Caxton, William (1422-1491); Higgin, Anthony (1624)
[after 21 January 1480]
Signatures: [a⁶ b⁴ c⁶ d⁶ e⁸ f⁴]. No printed signatures, catchwords or pagination. With explicit but no colophon. The author also appears in catalogues as Guillermus Saphonensis (the ...
Preclarissimus liber elementorum Euclidis perspicacissimi, in artem geometrie incipit qua[m] foelicissime
Euclid (fl. 300 B.C); Adelard of Bath (1116-1142); Campano da Novara (1296); Ratdolt, Erhard (1447?-1528); Malaspina, Manfredi marchese di Filattiera (1720-1787); Sadler, Sir Michael (1861-1943)
anno Salutis 1482 octauis Calen[darum] Iun[ij]. [25 May 1482]
Signatures: a¹⁰ b-r⁸. Title from incipit in red on a2r. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on r7v reads: Opus elementoru[m] euclidis megarensis in geometria[m] arte[m] In id quoq[ue] Campani p...