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Total number of records: 31861
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Top 10: Collection group
Collection group | Count |
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Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive | 12620 |
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 5392 |
International Textile Collection | 2600 |
Brotherton Collection | 2223 |
Cookery Collection | 1756 |
Coin Collection | 1683 |
Liddle Collection | 993 |
University Archive | 954 |
University Art Collection | 936 |
Student Newspapers | 780 |
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Archive Collection:
YAS/MD17
YAS/MD17
1631-1816
In Kirkby Malzeard, Grewelthorpe, Misses, Swetton, Patrick Brompton, East Appleton, Hudswell, Thirlby, Bowes, Thorp-under-Stone, Knayton, and Bewerley. There are also appointments of Gregory Elsley as...
Archive Collection:
MS 1788
MS 1788
1887-1913
This extensive collection (about 10,000 images) was donated to the University in 1913 by Godfrey Bingley himself and is an archive of his life's work.
The collection comprises black and white image...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 19c Bennett
BC MS 19c Bennett
c.1840-1866
The letters include 16 from the writer J. Sheridan Le Fanu to Bessie Pigott Bennett (whose younger sister, Susan, he married in 1844); 47 from Margaret Decluzeau to Bessie Pigott Bennett; and about 27...
Archive Collection:
MS 1975
MS 1975
23 Jan 1860-May 1930
The collection includes works by Louis Compton Miall on science, Latin, gardening and education. It also encompasses some letters with one written by Charles Darwin and another from T. H. Huxley. It...
Archive Collection:
BC MS 20c Poetry and Audience
BC MS 20c Poetry and Audience
c.1954-1972
This collection contains typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by 33 authors, submitted for publication in the Leeds student literary magazine 'Poetry and Audience.' Also included is a small amoun...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD217
YAS/MD217
1 Feb 1585 - 21 Sept 1928
Relating to Acomb, West Ayton, Burn [parish of Brayton], Carthorpe, Firby [parish of Westow], Gate Fulford, Hanlith, Harrogate, Knaresborough (especially the Donisthorpe family), Leeds, Rathmell, Scar...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD228
YAS/MD228
16th century-19th century
Includes a notebook with recipes for preserving shoe soles and for soup.
Archive Collection:
MS 2282
MS 2282
1792
Manuscript of ‘Sors misera servorum in insulis Indiae occidentalis’ (Ode on The West-Indian Slave Trade) submitted by Coleridge for the Browne Medal for classical composition in his first year at ...
Archive Collection:
MS 2283
MS 2283
1917-1917
Manuscript in French in modern calligraphic Gothic bookhand on parchment, containing the poems of Paul-Marie Verlaine and Louis Gabriel Charles Vicaire in the hand of, and illuminated by, Alberto Sang...
Archive Collection:
MS 2284
MS 2284
1475
Manuscript in Latin in Humanistic bookhand on parchment, containing Pomponius Mela 'Cosmographia' [fols. 1-30r], the anonymous 'Descriptio Ligustice regionis', a description of Liguria and Genoa, [fol...
Archive Collection:
MS 2285
MS 2285
10th century
Manuscript in Greek Minuscule on parchment, containing the text of the Gospels, with lectionary divisions in margins. Imperfect: wanting numerous leaves and with some sections of the text supplied lat...
Archive Collection:
MS 2286
MS 2286
c.1420
Manuscript in Middle English in Anglicana Formata on parchment, copied by the 'Selden Scribe' [ex inf.: Professor Sebastian Sobecki] containing Thomas Hoccleve's ‘Regiment of Princes’. Marginal gl...
Archive Collection:
MS 2287
MS 2287
After 1430
Manuscript in Middle English in several Anglicana bookhands on parchment containing the text of the Brut Chronicle (Prose Brut). Contemporary scribal additions in Anglicana bookhand correcting omissio...
Archive Collection:
MS 2288
MS 2288
13th century
Manuscript in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textura) on parchment, containing the text of the Old and New Testaments. Decoration: Minimal decoration, but occasional fine decorated capitals in red and blue...
Archive Collection:
MS 2289
MS 2289
c.1580
Manuscript in Secretary hand on paper containing 'A pampflyt compiled of cheese'. Decoration: Undecorated; page frames ruled. Collation: [A-P4]. With one initial and two final flyleaves. Each quire is...
Archive Collection:
YAS/MD244
YAS/MD244
17th century-18th century
Deeds relating to Barnsley, Ecclesfield, Greasbrough, Hemsworth, Horton [parish of Bradford], Rawmarsh, Ryhill [parish of Wragby], Thurnscoe and elsewhere 17th-18th century
Archive Collection:
BC MS Mattison
BC MS Mattison
1790s-1963
The Alf Mattison collection is the archive of Leeds socialist and local historian Alf Mattison (1868-1944). His major achievement was to amass a collection documenting the development of British soci...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1099
LRA/MS 1099
1900s-1990s, 2009
PHOTOGRAPHS (prints, copy prints, negatives, lantern slides, caption notes: British Embassy staff, Petrograd, 1918 /1-5/; British submariners, Russia, 1916 /6-7/; B S Lombard's wife and daughter (?) /...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1350
LRA/MS 1350
1890s-1980s
Books: (with S Liberman, A Prismanova, B Sosinskii, G Venus) "Most na vetru[: Pervyi sbornik '4+1']" (Berlin, 1924) /1/; "Svintsovyi chas" (Berlin, 1924) /2/; "Nedug bytiia: vtoraia kniga stikhotvoren...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 1455
LRA/MS 1455
1900s-1910s, 1997
Photocopy of "Otkrytye pis'ma i drugie khudozhestvennye izdaniia Obshchiny sv Evgenii Krasnogo Kresta [...]: Spravochnyi ukazatel' khudozhestvennykh izdanii", 6th ed (Petrograd, 1915) /1/ (see also co...
Archive Sub-collection:
LRA/MS 907
LRA/MS 907
1914-1982, 1997-1998
Photograph (and negative) of S N Andronikova-Gal'pern, Paris, nd /1-2/. Cutting of G Vasil'ev, `Neizvestnyi portret', "Nedelia" (Moscow), no 24, 11-17 June 1979, p 21 /3/.
Letters and postcards to S...
Archive Series:
BC MS 19c Stoker/01
BC MS 19c Stoker/01
1866 - 1911
Correspondence addressed to Bram Stoker, generally dated between 1866 and 1911. Letters have been indexed by correspondent.
Archive Series:
LUA/PER/023
LUA/PER/023
1945-1982
Biography: Mary Varey Rawes graduated from the University of Leeds with a B.A. in Geography in 1948 and with a Diploma of Education in 1949.
1: Letters and notices relating to admission to B.A. Hons...
Archive Art Series:
ART 090/3
ART 090/3
1770-1790
Japanese woodblock print. Japanese title is 'San shibai kabuki kyogen no zu'. From the series 'New Perpsective Pictures' ('Shinpan uki-e').
Depicts the interior of a theatre with a full view of the...