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Total number of records: 30318
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Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Godfrey Bingley Photographic Archive | 12620 |
| Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture | 5392 |
| International Textile Collection | 2597 |
| Brotherton Collection | 2223 |
| Cookery Collection | 1756 |
| Liddle Collection | 993 |
| University Archive | 954 |
| University Art Collection | 936 |
| Student Newspapers | 780 |
| Medieval Manuscripts | 750 |
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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...