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    Didactic and religious verse and prose by Joseph Sparrow, written in at the front and back of Elizabeth Joceline's The mothers legacy to her unborn child, 1684.
    ca. 1705-1706
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 98
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Joceline Elizabeth 1596-1622.
    Extent:1 vol. ([xxxii], 119 pp), printed book with manuscript additions. The manuscript additions are written in a single hand on all four flyleaves and on the verso of leaf Q4; they are attributed to Joseph Sparrow and dated 1705 and 1706. The book itself is bound in damaged leather with some blind tooling on the outside covers and spine. At the end, the verso of the last flyleaf bears several signatures of Joseph Sparrow; also of J. Bency (?) and Ann Richards
    Language:English
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  • 2
    A Christian kalendar, consisting of three starrs and many lights, by Martin Baynes
    ca. 1615
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 53
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Baynes Martin.
    Extent:1 vol. ([1], 71 ff.), manuscript. The main text is in a single hand, probably autograph, but the marginal notes may be added in a different hand. The title-page is illuminated in gold with a decorated border and symbols for the sun and stars. The volume is bound in dark brown leather with a little gilt tooling
    Language:English Latin
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  • 3
    Miscellany of original early eighteenth century English poetry with East Anglian connections, by Robert Worlidge
    ca. 1700-1720
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 107
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Worlidge Robert fl 1710.
    Extent:1 vol. (64 ff.), manuscript. Written in a single and quite fine calligraphic hand, probably the author's autograph, with some rubrication. Bound in vellum with some blind tooling on the covers. The name 'R.W. Sutton' is written in ink on the outside front cover, probably a mark of ownership
    Language:English
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  • 4
    Selections from The betraying of Christ, by Samuel Rowlands
    ca. 1625-1634
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 77
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Rowlands Samuel.
    Extent:1 vol. (48 ff.), manuscript. The main text is written in a single hand. Bound in vellum and embossed with a gilt pattern and decorations. The main text is foliated 1-45 by the writer of the manuscript
    Language:English
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  • 5
    Drafts of Meditations among the tombs, and Reflections on a flower-garden, with miscellaneous other material, by James Hervey
    ca. 1740
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 56
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Hervey James 1714-1758.
    Extent:1 vol. (60 ff.), folio manuscript. Apparently the original autograph manuscript with a watermark dated 1740. Bound in sheepskin with some tooling, but badly damaged
    Language:English Greek Latin Hebrew
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  • 6
    Literary manuscripts, correspondence, and publications of Wilfred Rowland Childe, with material relating to him
    ca. 1920-1998
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS 20c Childe
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Childe Wilfred Rowland 1890-1952.
    Extent:6 boxes; manuscript (some photocopy), typescript, photographs, press cuttings, postcards, and printed material. Includes a small framed silhouette of Childe's profile
    Language:English
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  • 7
    Collection of poems, predominantly religious, by Thomas Fairfax, 3rd Baron, professionally transcribed, with annotations by his uncle, Colonel Charles Fairfax
    ca. 1670
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 105
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Fairfax Thomas Fairfax Baron 1612-1671.
    Extent:1 vol. (440 pp.), manuscript, together with an issue of The Intelligencer, number 288, covering the period 'from Munday, the 29th of Janu., till Munday, the 5th of Feb., 1648 [i.e. 1649]', the latter being printed material held in a separate envelope. Written in the careful, mixed hand of a professional amanuensis, with corrections and revisions, many in the predominantly italic, rounded hand of Charles Fairfax. Eight blank pages at the end have been filled at a later date by another hand with 'An account of my Lord Fairfax Ingagmts faithfully transcribed out of a Manuscript taken out of the Originall written by his owne hand found in his study after his decease'. The volume is held in a box. Bound in contemporary calf with some blind tooling on the outside covers and spine. The Fairfax armorial bookplate is pasted on to the front inside cover
    Language:English
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  • 8
    Poetical commonplace-place book, mainly compiled by Eliza Marriott
    ca. 1740-1804
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 103
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Marriott Eliza fl 1763.
    Extent:1 vol. (178 ff.), manuscript. Written mainly in a single hand, probably that of Eliza Marriott, but there are also at least two other hands found in the manuscript. Ff.92v-170v are blank. The remaining text on ff.171-178 is written in one of the different hands from the other end of the volume, upsidedown in relation to the main text, and was probably added last, after 1803. Bound in boards which have worn marbling on the outside and with a slightly damaged leather spine. There is an armorial bookplate of the Marriott family pasted on to the inside front cover, and the signature of 'Eliza Marriott, Darfield, 1763' is written on the top of the facing flyleaf
    Language:English
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  • 9
    Papers of and relating to John Gray
    1890-1961
    Ref:GB 133 JHG
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Gray John 1866-1934 poet.
    Extent:0.1m good condition
    Language:English and French
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