Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 17 records

Total number of records: 17

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items16
Archives1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Ripon Cathedral9
Brotherton Collection7
Incunabula2
Medieval Manuscripts1

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
history, ancient17
world history2
bible1
crusades1
geography, ancient1
history1
kings and rulers1
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)1
papacy1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain2
Byzantine Empire1
Rome1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Justinus, Marcus Junianus4
Bracciolini, Poggio2
Bracciolini, Poggio (1380-1459)2
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)2
Dinoth, Richard (1590)2
Golding, Arthur2
Golding, Arthur (1536-1606)2
Orosius, Paulus2
Paris, Matthew2
Paris, Matthew (1200-1259)2

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 14004
From 150013

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 14993
Up to 159914

Archive Print Item

Diodori Siculi Historici clarissimi, bibliothecae, seu rerum antiquarum tum fabulosarum tum verarum historiae, priores libri sex

Diodorus, Siculus; Bracciolini, Poggio (1380-1459)

1531

Colophon: Parisiis impensis Simonis Colinae, M D XXXI. Dedication: "Poggius Florentinus Nicolao Quinto Pontifici Maximo S.D." -- Prelim. leaves [2-3]. First Poggio translation to contain all six b...

More details


Archive Print Item

Justini ex Trogi Pompeii historia, libri XLIIII : huic accessit commentariolus, qui praeterquam quod historiae brevitatem passim illustrat, multa in super scitu non indigna addit. Item ex Sexto Aurelio Victore, De vita & moribus Romanorum imperatorum epitome

Justinus, Marcus Junianus

1552

The De vita et moribus imperatorum Romanorum, while based on Victor's Caesares, is by an entirely different, unknown author. Cf. Oxford classical dict. (under Aurelius Victor); Greek and Latin authors...

More details


Archive Print Item

Flores historiarum

Paris, Matthew (1200-1259); Parker, Matthew (1504-1575)

1570

Title within ornamental border. Many errors in numbering of pages including insertion of unnumbered leaf between p. 218 & 219 in 2d group of paging. The part covering the period from A.D. 1259 to ...

More details


Archive Print Item

Flores historiarum

Paris, Matthew (1200-1259); Parker, Matthew (1504-1575)

1570

Title within ornamental border. Many errors in numbering of pages including insertion of unnumbered leaf between p. 218 & 219 in 2d group of paging. The part covering the period from A.D. 1259 to ...

More details


Archive Print Item

Iustini Historia ex Trogo Pompeio quattuor & triginta epithomatis collecta. Lucii Flori Epithomata quattuor quamcultissima in decem Titi Liuii decadas. Sexti Ruffi consularis viri ad Valentianum Augustum de Historia Romana opus dignissimum

Justinus, Marcus Junianus; Sabellico (1436?-1506); Petit, Jean (1492-1530); Marchant, Jean (1504-1516); Florus, Lucius Annæus; Rufus, Sextus

[1509?]

Signatures: A⁸; B⁴, C⁶, a-y·⁴ z⁶ &⁴. Date given as [ca. 1500] in: A catalogue of ancient manuscripts and early printed books; The Brotherton Library, 1931. Headlines, but no catchword...

More details


Archive Print part

Sententiae historicorum

Dinoth, Richard (1590)

1580

Publisher's device on title-page. Signatures: A-I (A1 verso, I8 verso blank). Numerous errors in paging, including p. 100-109 misprinted "80-83, 4, 85-89" and p. 142-143 misprinted as "141-142". ...

More details


Archive Print Item

Berosi sacerdotis Chaldaici, antiquitatum Italiae ac totius orbis libri quinque

Berosus the Chaldean; Nanni, Giovanni (1432?-1502)

1552

A collection of spurious fragments of the works of Greek and Roman writers (in Latin translation) first published in Rome, 1498. The Parisian edition of 1511 bore the title: Antiquitatum variarum volu...

More details


Archive Print Item

The abridgement of the historyes of Trogus Pompeius

Justinus, Marcus Junianus; Trogus, Pompeius; Golding, Arthur (1536-1606)

1578

Also published with title: Thabridgment of the histories of Trogus Pompeius. "Cum Priuilegio". Pages numbered on recto only. Marginal notes. Title within illustrated border. Numerous errors ...

More details


Archive Print Item

Jo. Sleidani De quatuor summis imperiis, Babylonico, Persico, Græco, & Romano : Libri tres

Sleidanus, Johannes (1506-1556)

1584

Running title reads: De quat. summis imp. Even page numbers on rectos. Includes index.

More details


Archive Print Item

Thabridgemente [sic] of the histories of Trogus Pompeius, gathered and written in the Laten [sic] tung

Justinus, Marcus Junianus; Trogus Pompeius; Golding, Arthur (1536-1606)

1570

An epitome of: Trogus, Pompeius. Historiae Philippicae. The two leaves between 161 and 163 are both numbered 159. Many errors in foliation, especially after f.158.

More details


Archive Print Item

Pauli Orosii viri doctissimi historiarum initium ad Aurelium Augustinum

Orosius, Paulus; Volpi, Enea; Achates, Leonardus (1473-1497); Cassano, Luigi Cassano Serra duca di (1747-1825); Spencer, George John Spencer Earl (1758-1834); Augustus Frederick Prince, Duke of Sussex (1773-1843); Bigsby, Robert (1806-1873); Bosworth, Joseph (1876); Rowe, Louis Thompson (1855-1927); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[about 1482]

Signatures: a-i⁸ K⁸ l-m⁸ n¹⁰. Imprint from ISTC. Also recorded as [about 1489]. Colophon in verse on n10r reads: Vt ipse titulus margine in primo docet. Orosio nomen mihi est. Librario[...

More details