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Total number of records: 1874

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Archives547
Indexes1

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Brotherton Collection1874
Incunabula1323
Medieval Manuscripts334
English Literature2
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Herbert Read Collection1

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passion of christ24
god the father20
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birth and youth of christ17

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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)257
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton227
Koberger, Anton (1440-1513)22
Koberger, Anton22
Catholic Church17
Husner, Georg10
Husner, Georg (1505)10
Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787-1854)9
Antoninus Saint, Archbishop of Florence (1389-1459)9
Brant, Sebastian (1458-1521)8

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Archive Collection:
BC MS
1100-1499
Leeds University Library holds medieval manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 15th century.
Archive File:
BC MS 31
[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 ...
Archive File:
BC MS 33
c.11th century
An incomplete eleventh-century copy of the Psalm commentaries of the fifth-century theologian Theodoret.
Archive Print Item:
BC Incunabula/ANS/1
Opuscula beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Ca[n]tuarie[n]sis ordinis Sancti Benedicti

Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109); Honorius of Autun (1080-1156); Amerbach, Johannes (1430-1513); Martinus, Jacobus; Hoff, Thomas; Hofer, David; Saulnier, Nicolas; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[not after 1497]
Signatures: A-B⁸ a-z⁸ [et]⁸. Imprint from ISTC. Included in the text is the medieval geography De imagine mundi. Printed in two columns with 49 or 50 lines to a full column. Initial spac...
Archive Item:
BC MS 1
[ca. 142-?]
Four gatherings of 12 (Calendar), 8, 8 and 8. Leaves missing after the first two gatherings (Calendar; Gospel Sequences and Obsecro te) and the last two gatherings (Penitential psalms; Penitential psa...
Archive Item:
BC MS 31/1
[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 ...
Archive Item:
BC MS Frag. 1
14th century
Comprises: 1) a leaf from a late 14th-century (?) Book of Hours, with a large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The miniature is surrounded by a full decorated borde...
Archive Item:
BC MS 33/1
c.11th century
Archive Item:
Leeds Papyrus 1
n.d.
Papyrus fragment labelled as 'BC Papyrus 1'. Unknown provenance and no accompanying information.
Archive Item:
BC MS 100
[ca. 1461-1483]
Decoration: 64 miniatures within roundels with toothed edges, 58-83 mm in diameter. 7-line incipit initial 'C' in blue on decorated gold ground. 4-line initials in gold, on pink and blue grounds patte...
Archive Item:
BC MS 101
[1453-1454]
Continuous contemporary foliation at foot of each recto leaf. Decoration: 2 to 8-line initials in red. Running titles, rubrics, and some underlining, in red. Capitals touched in red. Geometrical dra...
Archive Item:
BC MS 102
[1412 (-1425?)]
There are 2-line initials in red or the ink of the text. The pastedowns are from a 12th-century sanctoral of a missal, with the vigil and day of Saint Lawrence on the rear board, and (inverted) Sain...