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Total number of records: 190

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Books and printed items126
Archives53
Indexes10
Art items1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection190
English Literature43
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections24
Herbert Read Collection17
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse13
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection10
Letters Database8
Incunabula6
Rudolf Laban Collections5
Leeds Poetry4

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scottish poetry15
english poetry9
poetry9
writing8
literature5
romanies5
criticism4
gift giving4
letters4
english drama3

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Great Britain5
Baden-Baden, Germany3
Egypt2
Genoa, Italy2
England1
France1
Granada (Kingdom)1
London, United Kingdom1
Netherlands1

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People and organisationsCount
Edwards, D H15
Edwards, D. H15
Scott, Walter, Sir, 1771-18328
Cadell, Robert7
James Ballantyne and Co7
Lockhart, J G (1794-1854)7
Murray, John7
Murray, John (1778-1843)7
Whittaker and Co7
Anonymous6

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Archive File

Bond in £160

1638

William Bulmer of Marrick Parke & Richard Vincent of Smeton to Robert Blackburne 12 Jun 1638 paper poor condition with wrapper noting partial repayment

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Archive File

Enitharmon Archive: Box 160

c.2001-2006

One box containing: David Gascoyne: April, A Novella (2000) A long-lost novella of 1937, discovered by Roger Scott. Paula Rego: preparatory material for ‘The Children's Crusade’, based on a s...

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Flowers and leaves (fol. 160r)
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Flowers and leaves (fol. 160r)

[ca. 1500-1520]

The border is decorated with acanthus leaves and two unidentified flowers. 7-line foliate initial 'S'.

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Views of Novello's new building at 160 Wardour Street

1906-1907

Two mounted copies of views, exterior and interior, of Novello's new building at 160 Wardour Street, London, by the architect Frank L. Pearson, from Academy Architecture. The original drawings were ex...

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St. Catherine and St. Barbara (fol. 160r)
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St. Catherine and St. Barbara (fol. 160r)

[1450-1475]

St. Catherine of Alexandria is depicted holding a wheel and a sword, the instruments of her martyrdom, while standing on one of her executioners. St. Barbara is depicted holding a miniature tower.

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Love's Labour's Lost. IV. iii. 160 - IV. iii. 278

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (134)

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Love's Labour's Lost. V. i. 17 - V. i. 160

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (136)

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Henry the Fourth, Part One. V. iv. 160 - V. v. 44

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (73)

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Title: An answer

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1698

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Lighthearted satire on the Knights of the Toast, attributing the authorship

of the preceding poem (BCMSV 159) not to Henry Heveningham but to Arthur

Mainwaring. Followed by a separately-written postscript, "I greet the witty

Carberry / Tho' blind as god o

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Monsters and grotesques (fol. 30v)
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Monsters and grotesques (fol. 30v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a grotesque with a woman's head wearing a head-dress and with a lion's lower body walking with a stick (tau cross), and a wyvern-like grotesque with goat's horns.

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Charles Turner Esqr. his seat att Kirkleatham in Cleveland in the county of Yorke.

1700-1899

1. Sr. "William Turners Hospitall. 2. Sr. Wm's tomb. LVII Bottom edge cropped.

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A sentimental journey through France and Italy

Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768); Stout, Gardner D

1967

At head of title: Laurence Sterne.

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