Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 39 records

Total number of records: 39

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items36
Archives3

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
English Literature25
Brotherton Collection14
Incunabula4
Leeds Russian Archive1
University Archive1

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
botany1
heraldry1
judaism1
natural history1
nobility1
russian language1
russian literature1
science1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)19
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)19
Cotton, Charles6
Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)6
Montaigne, Michel De (1533-1592)6
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)3
Allen, Edmund (1519?-1559)1
Anne (Mother of the Virgin Mary), Saint1
Aristotle1
Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 14004
From 15003
From 16008
From 17002
From 180019
From 19003

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 14994
Up to 15993
Up to 16998
Up to 17992
Up to 189919
Up to 19993

Archive Print piece

dd8v

M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

More details


Archive Print Item

The characters, or, The manners of the age : Made English by several hands : With The characters of Theophrastus. Translated from the Greek and a prefatory discourse to them

La Bruyère, Jean de (1645-1696); Theophrastus

1700

"The moral characters of Theophrastus" has special t.p. Leaves pi1v, ¹Bb7-8r and Dd8 carry advertisements.

More details


Archive Print Item

Burleus super octo libros physicorum

Burlaeus, Gualterus (1275-1345?); Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE); Vernia, Nicoletto (1420-1499); Scotto, Ottaviano (1498); Locatelli, Boneto (1486-1523); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno salutis nonagesimop[ri]mo supra millesimum [et] quadringe[n]tesimu[m]. Quarto nnas dece[m]bris. [2 December 1491]

Signatures: a-i⁸ k⁶ l-z8 [et]⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ AA-BB⁸ CC-DD⁶. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on DD4v reads: Impressa arte [et] diligentia Boneti locatelli bergome[n]sis. Su[m]tib[us] v[...

More details


Archive Print Item

Vita Christi : ex evangeliis et scriptoribvs orthodoxis per Lvdolphvm Saxonium, sacri ordinis Carthusiensium, excerpta: ad vetustorum exemplarium fidem accuratissimé recognita. : Adiecto indice nouo, & non vulgari

Ludolf von Sachsen (1300-1378); Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514); Badius, Josse (1462-1535); Dorlandus, Petrus (1454-1507); Anne (Mother of the Virgin Mary), Saint

1534

Printer's device on t.p. (Silvestre 395). Leaves printed on both sides; text in two columns. Initials, sidebars. Signatures: aa-dd⁸, a-z⁸, A-BB⁸, CC-DD⁶, (D6v blank). Leaf numbers 140, 1...

More details


Archive Print Item

Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne : in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life (v.1)

Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592); Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

1685-1686

Title page of v. 2 reads: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors / new rendred into English by Charles Cotton... (imprint dat...

More details


Archive Print Item

Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne : in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life (v.2)

Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592); Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

1685-1686

Title page of v. 2 reads: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors / new rendred into English by Charles Cotton... (imprint dat...

More details


Archive Print Item

Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne : in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life (v.1)

Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592); Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

1685-1686

Title page of v. 2 reads: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors / new rendred into English by Charles Cotton... (imprint dat...

More details


Archive Print Item

Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne : in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life (v.2)

Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592); Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

1685-1686

Title page of v. 2 reads: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors / new rendred into English by Charles Cotton... (imprint dat...

More details


Archive Print Item

Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne : in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life (v.3)

Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592); Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

1685-1686

Title page of v. 2 reads: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors / new rendred into English by Charles Cotton... (imprint dat...

More details


Archive Print Item

Essays of Michael, Seigneur de Montaigne : in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors, and an account of the author's life (v.3)

Montaigne, Michel de (1533-1592); Cotton, Charles (1630-1687)

1685-1686

Title page of v. 2 reads: Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne, in three books : with marginal notes and quotations of the cited authors / new rendred into English by Charles Cotton... (imprint dat...

More details


Archive Print Item

The works of Jonathan Swift, D.D. Dean of St Patrick's, Dublin; containing additional letters, tracts, and poems, not hitherto published; with notes, and a life of the author (v.1)

Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745); Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832)

1824

Includes bibliographical references and index. v. 1. Memoirs of Jonathan Swift, D.D. -- v. 2. Journal to Stella (Letter I-XXXVII)-- v. 3. Journal to Stella (Letter XXXVIII-LXV). Tracts, political an...

More details