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Brotherton Collection15
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse15
Cookery Collection1
Leeds Russian Archive1
Medical Collections1

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commonplace-books19
english poetry16
recipes6
cooking2
account books1
aphorisms and apothegms1
british1
children's drawings1
conduct of life1
english drama1

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Coles, Benjamin2
Beardwell, E1
Beauclerk, Sidney De Vere1
Fairfax, Henry1
Hey, William (1736-1819)1
Lewis Family1
Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)1
Walker, Margaret1

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GUDGEON Collection

1847-1868

Gudgeon family commonplace and accounts book, Marfin Brod, St Petersburg etc, 1847-1869 /1/. Homemade French-Russian vocabulary book /2/. Postal and other receipts, 1854-1868 and nd /3-9/. Recipes, li...

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Frederick William Rolfe, (Baron Corvo), collection

Rolfe, Frederick William (1860-1913)

1881-2011

Includes works and letters by Frederick Rolfe and the papers of Donald Weeks' who wrote and researched extensively on Rolfe.

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BC MS Lt 46, f. 1r:
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Collection of English poems, predominantly Jacobite, in several hands

c.1720-1730

Collection of poems, songs and ballads, composed ca.1706-1723, expressing loyalty to the Stuarts and assailing the House of Hanover

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BC MS Lt q 38, p.1: The opening of John Smith's poem
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A collection of the most choice and private poems, lampoons &c. from the withdrawing of the late King James 1688 to the year 1701, collected by a person of quality

1688-1701

An anthology of 92 poems, principally satires, and seven prose pieces, arranged in rough chronological order for the period 1688-1701, many dated.

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BC MS Lt 38, f. 33v: Thomas Ireland's poem
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Collection of English and Latin verse and prose, apparently made at Oxford

1670

Refoliated f.1 etc. in 1973 in consideration of pages 57-60 and 75-76 being missing and the remainder very loose. In a single hand. Indexed.

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BC MS Lt 96, f. 119v:
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Commonplace book of poetry and prose in English and Latin, written amongst a collection of medical recipes.

c.1710-1750

Contains 64 English poems, mainly eighteenth-century and satirical, or religious, together with Latin poetry and prose, some medical recipes, and a few stanzas of classical Greek poetry at the end.

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Cookery and commonplace book, compiled partly by Margaret Walker

Walker, Margaret

1778-1869

At one end of the book is a collection of cookery recipes and notes on family and local events. At the other end, inverted, is a collection of poems and notes on further local events. On end-paper: 'M...

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BC MS Lt 54, p. 179: The opening of
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Miscellany of English Restoration verse

c.1680-1695

Substantial collection of English Restoration verse, in four hands

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BC MS Lt 20, p. 111: The opening of William King's poem
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Poetical miscellany compiled by E. Beardwell

Beardwell, E

1724

'The six first Pastorals of Virgil, With Three of His Georgics; Together with some with [sic] Miscellany Poems [by various authors]. Transcrib'd and Collected By E. Beardwell, 1724'.

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BC MS Lt 109, p. 1: The opening of
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Commonplace book owned by the Lewis family, including transcribed poems by Pope, Gray, and Prior.

Lewis family

c.1700-1750

Contains six poems, including items by Pope, Gray, and Prior; also, a large collection of moral aphorisms entitled 'Seneca unmasqued'.

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BC MS Lt 84, f. 23v - 24r: The opening of Sir Francis Hubert's poem
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Commonplace book of English religious poems and prayers

c.1715

Ff.1r-6r (verso blank): miscellaneous notes in Latin and Greek; ff.7r-41r: twenty-four poems on religious subjects, beginning with two by Joseph Addison (from 'The Spectator' 489 and 513) and includin...

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BC MS Lt 43, f. 34v: Henry Fairfax's poem
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Poetical commonplace book, compiled by Henry Fairfax

Fairfax, Henry

1679-1682

Many references to Yorkshire localities, e.g. Denton, Tadcaster, Otley, Kettlewell, York. As well as poetry there is much in prose, including recipes. References to writer's brother B. and sister S.

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