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Brotherton Collection1848
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Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)4440
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DOCUMENTS RELATING TO VARIOUS PROPERTIES
Archive Collection

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...

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Bolton Woods, Path-Trees-River
Archive Collection

Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive

Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)

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...

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Bennett Family Correspondence
Archive Collection

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...

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MS 1975 Louis Compton Miall's box 1
Archive Collection

Louis Compton Miall Collection

Miall, L C (1842-1921)

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...

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Poetry and Audience - 6th November, 1953
Archive Collection

Poetry and Audience, typescript and manuscript drafts of poems by various authors originally published in 'Poetry and Audence'

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...

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DEEDS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS
Archive Collection

DEEDS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

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...

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DEEDS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO ECCLESHILL, IDLE, LEEDS AND WROSE
Archive Collection

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.

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Samuel Taylor Coleridge manuscript verses on the slave trade
Archive Collection

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 ...

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Lyriques choisis de poètes français
Archive Collection

Lyriques choisis de poètes français

Sangorski, Alberto (1932-); Verlaine, Paul (1844-1896); Vicaire, Louis Gabriel Charles (1900-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

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...

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Cosmographia
Archive Collection

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...

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[Greek Gospels]
Archive Collection

[Greek Gospels]

McLeish, Charles (1949-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

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...

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Regiment of Princes
Archive Collection

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...

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