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Total number of records: 11985
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Anonymous | 1188 |
| Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | 983 |
| Wodehouse, Sir Philip | 631 |
| Great Britain. Parliament | 292 |
| Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930) | 265 |
| Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton | 235 |
| Great Britain | 224 |
| Fairfax, Thomas, 3rd Lord Fairfax | 193 |
| Dryden, John (1631-1700) | 179 |
| F.; [Bible] | 161 |
Count of Earliest date
Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection)
1100-1499
Leeds University Library holds medieval manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 15th century.
Italian Official Documents
1558-1697
Printed Italian documents referencing Gypsies and Travellers [Roma] in Italy. Some with manuscript annotations.
Statutes, (22) of Henry VIII [ (Anno vicesimo secundo Henrici Octavi.)
Great Britain
[1551]
Printed copy of a collection of 16 acts, including "An acte concernyng outlandishe people cllyng them selfes Egiptians" [Gypsies/Travellers] (cap. 10) and "An acte concerning how aged, poore, and impo...
Bolton Castle in Wensleydale, where Mary Queen of Scots was imprisoned in 1568. F Nicholson del.
1568
Printed by C Hullmandel.
Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)
Ptolemy; Theon of Alexandria; Porphyry (234-305); Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos
[14--? ]
Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...
Theodoretus Interpretatio in Psalmos
c.11th century
An incomplete eleventh-century copy of the Psalm commentaries of the fifth-century theologian Theodoret.
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...
Title: Epitaph
Author: Anonymous
Date(s): 1624 ?
Manuscript: Lt q 44
Contents: Elegiac epitaph or tombstone inscription lamenting the deaths of Henry Wriothesley, Earl of Southampton, and his son James, Lord Wriothesley, in the Low Countries in 1624, as if spoken by their tomb. Cf. BCMSV 3408, 3409, 3410.