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Total number of records: 54
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Top 10: Subject
Top 10: Place
| Place | Count |
|---|---|
| Yorkshire | 3 |
| Birdforth Wapentake; Yorkshire North Riding | 2 |
| Arden; Hawnby; Yorkshire North Riding | 1 |
| Chapel Allerton; Leeds; Yorkshire West Riding | 1 |
| Healaugh; Yorkshire West Riding | 1 |
| Meaux Abbey; Meaux; Wawne; Yorkshire East Riding | 1 |
| Mexborough; Yorkshire West Riding | 1 |
| Monk Bretton; Royston; Yorkshire West Riding | 1 |
| Skyrack Wapentake; Yorkshire West Riding | 1 |
| Thirsk; Yorkshire North Riding | 1 |
Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998) | 6 |
| Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor | 6 |
| Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961) | 6 |
| Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921) | 6 |
| Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872) | 2 |
| Abercrombie Family | 1 |
| Abercrombie, Catherine | 1 |
| Abercrombie, Lascelles (1881-1938) | 1 |
| Abercrombie, Ralph (1883-1957) | 1 |
| Askew, Anthony (1722-1774) | 1 |
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[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...
Seamus Heaney, typescript of an interview by John Haffenden, and an annotated copy of 'Station Island'.
Heaney, Seamus (1939-2013)
1979-1990
Comprises: (1) An incomplete typescript of Heaney's interview with John Haffenden in January 1979 concerning Heaney's life and poetry with the latter's autograph manuscript revisions; (2) A copy of...
Literature 17th and 18th century (Brotherton Collection)
17th century - 18th century
The manuscripts range from large verse miscellanies and commonplace books to individual leaves containing only a single poem. The poems similarly range over a wide corpus of verse composition, from we...
Brut Chronicle
Wolhouse, Anthony (1533-1587); Speed, W; Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor
After 1430
Manuscript in Middle English in several Anglicana bookhands on parchment containing the text of the Brut Chronicle (Prose Brut). Contemporary scribal additions in Anglicana bookhand correcting omissio...
Colonel Hope Kelsall Collection
1890-1910
Comprises photographs taken by Kelsall while on leave from the British Army in India, broadly 1890-1910, showing scenes in India, Sri Lanka (dated 1905), China, Japan, Burma and Korea. The subjects i...
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...
W.H. Hudson, autograph manuscript by Morley Roberts for his book on Hudson, together with a manuscript notebook
Roberts, Morley (1857-1942)
c.1922-1924
Comprises autograph manuscript notes and drafts, with some corrected typescript, compiled by Morley Roberts for his book on W.H. Hudson, published as 'W.H Hudson: A Portrait'.
Paul Dehn, autograph manuscript draft of the poem 'Poissons d'Or', together with a printed version
Dehn, Paul (1912-1976)
c.1953-1954
Comprises: (1) An autograph manuscript draft of Paul Dehn's poem entitled 'Poisson D'Or' [sic] with many revisions and versions of parts of it; and (2) A printed version of the poem, cut out of 'Harpe...
C. E. and H. M. Brock Collection
Brock, C E (1870-1938); Brock, H M (1875-1960)
1890-2000s
Comprises index cards compiled by Michael Bourne for the Brock Book Collection, three A4 exhibition panels and typescript papers listing books illustrated by C. E. Brock and H. M. Brock. There are lo...
MISCELLANEOUS DOCUMENTS
1705-1838
Indenture between Elizabeth Wormall of Rothwell and John Fawcett and Elizabeth his wife relating to a tenement in Rothwell, 1655 Application for leave by Thomas Elston to fence part of Chapel Allerto...
William Boyne folios
Boyne, William (1893)
mid 19th century
Ten volumes of lithographs, engravings, photographs and original drawings of the exteriors and interiors of buildings and of views in the Yorkshire Ridings. The volumes were compiled by William Boyne...
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 ...