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Total number of records: 9543
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Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive | 3600 |
| Brotherton Collection | 2019 |
| Cookery Collection | 1242 |
| Medieval Manuscripts | 750 |
| John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History | 539 |
| Art and Antique Market | 539 |
| International Textile Collection | 453 |
| University Art Collection | 179 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 170 |
| Coin Collection | 127 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927) | 1253 |
| Wood, Joseph (1750-1821) | 92 |
| Rundell, Maria Eliza Ketelby (1745-1828) | 58 |
| Shakespeare, William (1564-1616) | 58 |
| Careme, M A (1784-1833) | 29 |
| Raffald, Elizabeth (1733-1781) | 29 |
| Westoby, Edward | 26 |
| Chinese, Unknown | 25 |
| Soyer, Alexis (1809-1858) | 23 |
| Patrick Branwell Bronte | 23 |
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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO VARIOUS PROPERTIES
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...
Bennett Family Correspondence
Bennett family
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...
DEEDS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ECCLESHILL, IDLE, LEEDS AND WROSE
16th century-19th century
Includes a notebook with recipes for preserving shoe soles and for soup.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript verses on the slave trade
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)
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 ...
Cosmographia
Pomponius Mela; Solinus, Gaius Julius; Servius, Petrus (1641-); Askew, Anthony (1722-1774); Woodhull, Michael (1816-); Ingram, Mary (1824-); Severne, Amy Samuel (1846-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor
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...
Regiment of Princes
Hoccleve, Thomas (1369-1426); Selden (1420-); Robinson, John (16th century-16th century); Browne, Thomas (16th century-16th century); Gibbs, Frater (16th century-16th century); Pawson, Esther (17th century-17th century); Heber, Richard (1773-1833); Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor
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...
Brut Chronicle
Wolhouse, Anthony (1533-1587); Speed, W; Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor
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...
[Latin Bible]
Eden, Sir Robert Johnson (1774-1844); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor; Sams, Joseph
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...
A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same
Fisher, Clement (1539-1619); Bayley, Walter (1529-1593); Willoughby, Edward (16th century-16th century); Stephens, Marly (17th century-17th century)
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...
DEEDS
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
View of a Dramatic Performance at the Three Theatres
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...
