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Total number of records: 29853

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Art items314
Objects57
Coins1

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Brotherton Collection28602
English Literature7323
Leeds Poetry4293
Letters Database3777
Herbert Read Collection1898
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1722
Rudolf Laban Collections1060
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections906
Medieval Manuscripts642
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse185

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letters1304
english poetry996
poets, english669
letter663
pre-raphaelites661
letter writing544
correspondence366
clippings (books, newspapers, etc.)339
english drama335
english literature327

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London, United Kingdom305
Genoa, Italy295
England89
Nice, France33
Rome, Italy25
Cumbria24
Florence, Italy23
Beckenham, United Kingdom22
Vienna, Austria22
Paris, France21

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Hill, Geoffrey (1932-2016)912
Stoker, Bram708
Silkin, Jon (1930-1997)676
Sala, George Augustus506
Irving, Henry, Sir, 1838-1905365
Moult, Thomas355
Crossley-Holland, Kevin288
Laban, Rudolf Von (1879-1958)263
Rudolf Laban263
Rudolf Jean-Baptiste Attila Von Laban263

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From 190017951
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Archive Collection

Medieval Manuscripts (Brotherton Collection)

1100-1499

Leeds University Library holds medieval manuscripts dating from the 12th to the 15th century.

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 142-?]

Four gatherings of 12 (Calendar), 8, 8 and 8. Leaves missing after the first two gatherings (Calendar; Gospel Sequences and Obsecro te) and the last two gatherings (Penitential psalms; Penitential psa...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1480-1500]

Decoration: 4 full-page arched miniatures within borders decorated with flowers, curled leaves, berries and putti. There are fine 3 to 4-line illuminated initials, on gold grounds and infilled with fl...

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[Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Louis XI of France]
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[Biblical and genealogical chronicle from Adam and Eve to Louis XI of France]

[ca. 1461-1483]

Decoration: 64 miniatures within roundels with toothed edges, 58-83 mm in diameter. 7-line incipit initial 'C' in blue on decorated gold ground. 4-line initials in gold, on pink and blue grounds patte...

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Addiciones super postille biblie magistri Nicolai de Lira
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Addiciones super postille biblie magistri Nicolai de Lira

Paulus a Mercatello; Guilielmus Brito; Moneliensis, Franciscus; Paul of Burgos (1351-1435); Döring, Mathias (1400-1469); Nicholas, of Lyra commentator (1270-1349); Jenson, Nicolas (1420-1480); Johann von Köln (1471-1491); Herbort, Johann (1484); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[1453-1454]

Continuous contemporary foliation at foot of each recto leaf. Decoration: 2 to 8-line initials in red. Running titles, rubrics, and some underlining, in red. Capitals touched in red. Geometrical dra...

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[Sermons, etc.]
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[Sermons, etc.]

John Sintram; Bonaventura Saint, Cardinal (1217-1274); Hugh of Saint-Victor (1096?-1141)

[1412 (-1425?)]

There are 2-line initials in red or the ink of the text. The pastedowns are from a 12th-century sanctoral of a missal, with the vigil and day of Saint Lawrence on the rear board, and (inverted) Sain...

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Materials for Franciscan use
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Materials for Franciscan use

[ca. 1440-1460]

15th-century table of contents inside the front cover. Written in German cursive book script. Principal contents: manual for Franciscan friars with various texts, including ff. 1r-111r Topics prov...

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[Sermons, etc.]
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[Sermons, etc.]

Henricus de Frimaria

[1444-1481 ?]

Bound in a composite volume with three printed works. Red highlighting on ff. 37r-40r, 49r, and 95r-107r. Written in German cursive, by nine different scribes. Bound with three 15th-century publ...

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[Preces]
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[Preces]

[ca. 1500-1520]

ff. iii, 214-218 are contemporary ruled vellum flyleaves. Decoration: 8 full-page borders in designs of flowers, birds and insects on decorated gold ground. 11-line (or smaller), initials throughout...

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[Preces]
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[Preces]

[ca. 1500-1520]

Decoration: 41 full-page miniatures. 3- and 2-line initials in blue and red throughout. Written in hybrida. Principal contents: Collections of prayers (ff. 1r-11v, 12r-24v, 25v-87v, 88v-93, 93r-10...

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Ordo visitandi domos ordinis Carthusiensis; etc
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Ordo visitandi domos ordinis Carthusiensis; etc

Guido de Pisis

[ca. 1480-1500]

Vertical catch words. Decoration: 3-line initial in gold on a blue and green ground and a penwork border in purple with flowers and a bird (f. 1r). 2-line initials in blue and red throughout for beg...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1450-1500]

Decoration: 5 (2 to 6-line) initials in blue or pink patterned in white, infilled with flowers, and on gold grounds, within full framed floral borders including designs of hens, berries, a bird and a ...

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