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Total number of records: 1075

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	1073
Archives	2

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	1075
English Literature	106
Incunabula	6

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
satire, english	2
geometry	2
poets, scottish	1
mathematics, greek	1
meteors	1
psalms (music)	1
refraction	1
songs with piano	1
solo cantatas, secular	1
sculpture	1

Count of Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	2
Rome	1
England	1

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

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1400	10
From 1500	12
From 1600	1035
From 1700	6
From 1800	11
From 1900	1

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1499	7
Up to 1599	15
Up to 1699	1035
Up to 1799	6
Up to 1899	11
Up to 1999	1

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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 ...

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Letter from Henry VII of England to Louis XII of France.

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...

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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.

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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 ...

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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...

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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...

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[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.

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[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.

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[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 ...

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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...

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Don Juan : in two volumes (v.1)

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)

1828

Printer's imprint of Thomas Davison on final page of each volume.

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Don Juan : in two volumes (v.2)

Byron, George Gordon Byron Baron (1788-1824)

1828

Printer's imprint of Thomas Davison on final page of each volume.