Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 11 of 11 records

Total number of records: 11

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection7
English Literature7
Ripon Cathedral1

Count of Subject

SubjectCount
english poetry2
artists' books1
fables1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Boccaccio, Giovanni11
Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)11
Chaucer, Geoffrey6
Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400)6
Dryden, John (1631-1700)5
Homer4
Ovid4
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D)4
Publius Ovidus Naso4
Beauclerk, Diana1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 15001
From 16001
From 17007
From 18001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 15991
Up to 16991
Up to 17997
Up to 18991

Archive Print Item

Illustrations of the Decamerone of Boccaccio

Stothard, Thomas (1755-1834); Fox, Augustus; Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)

[1825]

Proofs of the plates to Foscolo's edition of the Decamerone, London, 1825.

More details


Archive Print Item

Giornata prima

McDowall, John (1953-); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)

Artist's statement. "The book consists of reproductions of one page in sequence from each of the editions of The Decameron as found in the Brotherton Library University of Leeds, the Main Library Univ...

More details


Archive Print Item

The fables of John Dryden

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Beauclerk, Lady Diana (1734-1808); Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400)

1797

Four plates engraved by T. Cheesman, three by F. Bartolozzi, and one each by Vandenberg and W. N. Gardiner, all marked in the plate. Head and tail vignettes depicting putti.

More details


Archive Print part

Fables ancient and modern; translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, & Chaucer: with original poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Ovid; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Homer

1700

First edition. Error in paging: p. 272-359 omitted; the page following p. 646 is numbered 565. Half-title: Mr Dryden's fables. Contents on final two pages. p. 567-646 are not mentioned in the ...

More details


Archive Print Item

The popish imposter : a narrative. Faithfully translated from the original manuscript. Setting forth the frauds and artifices of the Romish clergy, to impose upon the laity. With explanatory notes. By a country curate

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)

[1741?]

Anecdote in verse; directed in part against Whitefield & Wesley. An adaptation of the 10th story of Day 6 of Boccaccio's "Decameron".

More details


Archive Print Item

Fables ancient and modern : translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer : with original poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Ovid; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Homer

1713

Head- and tailpieces; initials.

More details


Archive Print Item

Fables ancient and modern : translated into verse, from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer : with original poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Ovid; Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Homer

1713

Head- and tailpieces; initials.

More details


Archive Print Item

Flora's vagaries : A comedy. As it is acted at the Theatre Royal, by His Majesties servants. Licensed July 28. 1669. Roger L'Estrange

Rhodes, Richard (1668); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375)

1670

Page 34 misnumbered 35. Publisher's booklist at end. Based in part on Boccaccio's Decameron, day 3, novel 3.

More details


Archive Print Item

Fables antient and modern : translated into verse from Homer, Ovid, Boccace, and Chaucer, with original poems

Dryden, John (1631-1700); Ovid; Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Chaucer, Geoffrey (1400); Homer

1745

Page 338 incorrectly numbered 388. Title in red and black. Contents: Preface.--Palamon and Arcite: or, The knight's tale [from Chaucer]--To my honour'd kinsman, John Driden, of Chesterton.--Melage...

More details


Archive Print part

Joannis Bocatii Peri genealogias deorum : libri quindecim

Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Boccaccio, Giovanni (1313-1375); Micyllus, Jacobus (1503-1558)

1532

Third and fourth words in title transliterated from the Greek. Colophon: Basileae per Joannem Hervagium, mense Septembri, anno a Christo nato M.D.XXXII. Signatures: 2a-2e⁶, 2f⁴, a-z⁶, A-S⁶...

More details