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Total number of records: 32

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	30
Art items	1
Archives	1

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	20
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	6
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	6
English Literature	1
Herbert Read Collection	1
Leeds Russian Archive	1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
folk literature	32
folklore	14
mythology, hindu	10
tales, indic	10
almanacs	2
anecdotes	2
chapbooks	2
french language	2
legends	2
literature, medieval	2

Count of Place

Place	Count
India	10
England	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)	12
Halliday, Sir William Reginald (1886-1966)	10
Halliday, William Reginald	10
Penzer, N M (1892-1960)	10
Penzer, N. M	10
Somadeva Bhatta	10
Tawney, C H (1838-1922)	10
Tawney, C. H	10
Nisard, Charles (1808-1889)	2
Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)	1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1800	5
From 1900	27

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1899	4
Up to 1999	28

Archive Collection

George Borrow, literary manuscripts with related material

Borrow, George Henry (1803-1881)

c.1840-1913

Brotherton Collection items: Autograph manuscripts of two folktales, one beginning "Sigurd son of Volsun", the other entitled "The pisgey and midwife"; autograph manuscripts of four poems, "Grasach Ab...

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Histoire des livres populaires : ou de la littérature du colportage depuis le XVe siècle jusqu'à l'établissement de la Commission d'examen des livres du colportage (30 novembre 1852) (v.1)

Nisard, Charles (1808-1889)

1854

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Histoire des livres populaires : ou de la littérature du colportage depuis le XVe siècle jusqu'à l'établissement de la Commission d'examen des livres du colportage (30 novembre 1852) (v.2)

Nisard, Charles (1808-1889)

1854

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Skrá um íslenzkar þjóðsögur og skyld rit

Steindór Steindórsson frá Hlöðum

1964

Includes indexes.

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Nordische Heldensagen nach Saxo Grammaticus

Saxo Grammaticus (1204); Herrmann, Paul (1866-1930)

1925

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Skazki : finskie, ėstonskie i latyshskie

Gorfinkelʹ, D M

1923

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Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books and local legends (v.1)

Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)

1955-58

Contents: Vol.1. A-C. -- Vol.2. D-E. -- Vol.3. F-H. -- Vol.4. J-K. -- Vol.5. L-Z. -- Vol.6. Index.

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Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books and local legends (v.2)

Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)

1955-58

Contents: Vol.1. A-C. -- Vol.2. D-E. -- Vol.3. F-H. -- Vol.4. J-K. -- Vol.5. L-Z. -- Vol.6. Index.

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Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books and local legends (v.3)

Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)

1955-58

Contents: Vol.1. A-C. -- Vol.2. D-E. -- Vol.3. F-H. -- Vol.4. J-K. -- Vol.5. L-Z. -- Vol.6. Index.

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Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books and local legends (v.4)

Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)

1955-58

Contents: Vol.1. A-C. -- Vol.2. D-E. -- Vol.3. F-H. -- Vol.4. J-K. -- Vol.5. L-Z. -- Vol.6. Index.

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Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books and local legends (v.5)

Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)

1955-58

Contents: Vol.1. A-C. -- Vol.2. D-E. -- Vol.3. F-H. -- Vol.4. J-K. -- Vol.5. L-Z. -- Vol.6. Index.

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Motif-index of folk-literature : a classification of narrative elements in folktales, ballads, myths, fables, mediaeval romances, exempla, fabliaux, jest-books and local legends (v.6)

Thompson, Stith (1885-1976)

1955-58

Contents: Vol.1. A-C. -- Vol.2. D-E. -- Vol.3. F-H. -- Vol.4. J-K. -- Vol.5. L-Z. -- Vol.6. Index.