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  • 1
    An attempt to explain whence the virtues of the Bath waters proceed
    ca.1680
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 1
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 f. Addressed on verso "To Mr Will. Roberts coast waiter at the custome house Lond." Recto now foliated 81, apparently when assembled into the same collection relating to Bath as that from which Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 13 derives
    Language:English
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  • 2
    Three devotional poems, by Ralph Knevet
    1660s
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 37
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Knevet Ralph.
    Extent:1 p. In a single hand, mid-seventeenth century, corrected and so possibly autograph. A strip of paper repairing the fold covers the ends of many lines of two of the poems
    Language:English
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  • 3
    On the fair budd of honor and vertew John Lindsay of Arnbathie
    ca.1680
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 69
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 f. On recto of single leaf (verso blank), text enclosed in a printed rectangular border decorated with pictures of cats, dogs, insects and flowers, crudely hand-coloured; possibly intended as a greetings card. Gilded initial letters of the first 11 lines form an acrostic on the recipient's name. Signed at end "W.J.". Possibly autograph
    Language:English
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  • 4
    Upon the approach of the shore at Harwich, in January 1668; begun under the mast at the desire of my Lady Giffard, by Sir William Temple
    1668
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 29
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Temple William 1628-1699.
    Extent:2 ff. Two leaves, bifolium, a fair copy in a later 17th-century hand
    Language:English
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  • 5
    Seventeenth-century verse satire
    ca.1680
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 28
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:4 ff. Bound in contemporary marbled wrappers
    Language:English Latin
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  • 6
    Mistres mistres
    ca.1601-1625
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 60
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 f. Scrap of folded paper, addressed on reverse (in a different hand) seemingly to a Robert Porteous, merchant and burgess of Edinburgh
    Language:English
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  • 7
    The loyall protestants letany
    1680?
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 7
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:2 pp. Single item written on blank facing pages formed from bringing together two printed broadsheet satires, "The Loyal Subjects Littany" and "The Second Part of the Loyal Subject's Litany", both 1680; seemingly extracted from a large collection of similar material
    Language:English
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  • 8
    Ballades dedicated to the Lady Victoria Uvedale, by Patrick Cary
    1652-1653
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 68
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Cary Patrick fl1651.
    Extent:1 vol. (26 ff.) Blank leaves: front and rear endpapers, ff.1-2, f.3v, ff.25-26. Title-page illustrated with elaborate architectural border, with many coats of arms, including that of "Harry Vi:count of Falkland" and Carey's own device, and the note "London. Dublin. Tew. Wickham. (1652) writt All by the Authour's owne hand, an (1653) [i.e. 1652/3]". Each poem illustrated by a preceding emblematic drawing, with a couplet caption, and a following vignette. Bound in late-seventeenth-century calf; inner margins from front endpapers to f.13 worm-holed without loss to text. Catch words on p.40 not taken up and indicate an additional poem or poems in the MS originally, but remaining text is as when bound
    Language:English
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  • 9
    Drafts of two poems, attributed to John Hanson
    ca. 1630-1640
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 43
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Hanson John fl 1604.
    Extent:1 folio, manuscript. An autograph draft with revisions, probably unfinished, with another draft poem and a draft letter written at the request of 'Hancome'; headed '?John Hanson' in pencil in a modern hand. Verso contains only just over one line of text written upsidedown in relation to the main text on recto, probably in the same hand
    Language:English
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  • 10
    Ane encomium upon the most renouned and most illustrious John Earle of Lauderdale, Esquire, his majesties high commissioner for the kingdome of Scotland, his grace, by Maxwell
    1669
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 24
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Maxwell.
    Extent:1 f. Small single watermark of a type of coronet with fleur-de-lys centre, surmounting initials ending with an L, centre ornament below
    Language:English
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  • 11
    Commonplace book of verse and prose
    168-
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 22
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (71 ff.) Many leaves either torn out or blank. In a single hand. Armorial bookplate of Sir John Percivale, bart., Burton, Co. Cork, 1702. Contemporary calf binding
    Language:English
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  • 12
    Speech made before Charles I by Thomas Widdrington, and a poem, To the King, by John Saltmarsh
    1639
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 30
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Widdrington Thomas ca1600-1664.
    Extent:1 f
    Language:English
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  • 13
    Letter from Norman Ault to Francis Needham, and copy of Ault's article 'Pope and the Miscellanies with a new poem by his hand', 1934
    1934
    Ref:GB 159 MS 815
    Location:University of Nottingham Manuscripts and Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Ault Norman Mr 1880-1950 (author and artist specialist on Alexander Pope).
    Extent:2 items
    Language:English
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  • 14
    On Christ Church Windows, Oxon, by Mr J. C.
    ca.1640-1660
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 32
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Cleveland John 1613-1658.
    Extent:12 ff. Booklet, with the poem written on recto sides only. The final list of "stories" seems to be in the same hand but with another pen. Carefully inset on outer bottom corner of f.12 is a piece of paper bearing on recto the signature "Henry Gyles 1660". At top of f.1r in a hand of ca.1650-1700 is "Borrow'd of G.P.". Bound in grey cloth on boards, with free endpapers and pastedowns both of laid paper of ? ca.1750, and one end flyleaf in addition preceding free endpaper. A small round label inscribed "707" is on front cover at top
    Language:English
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  • 15
    Cupicimus, or cruelty and covetiousnes religiously joyn'd togeather
    ca.1646
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 4
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 f
    Language:English
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  • 16
    Four verse epistles, by Samuel Daniel
    ca.1601-1625
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 36
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Daniel Samuel 1562-1619.
    Extent:10 ff. Stitched unbound booklet. Written in a single hand
    Language:English
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  • 17
    The Remains of Mr Henry Hall late organist of Hereford
    ca.1720
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 6
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Hall Henry ca 1656-1707.
    Extent:17 ff. bound at the end of a volume containing thirteen printed works in verse, 1709-1713, the first being "The life and character of Mr John Phillips", 1712
    Language:English
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  • 18
    Three poems by Ro. James
    1684?
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 18
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    James Ro.
    Extent:4 ff. Three manuscript poems, probably autograph, written in a single hand on blank leaves (final leaf and 3 flyleaves) at the end of George Berkeley's Historical applications and occasional meditations (London, 1666), the third poem signed and dated Ro. James, 29 November 1684
    Language:English
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  • 19
    Poems on several occasions, written by John Fountain
    ca.1720
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 78
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Fountain John d 1663.
    Extent:1 vol. (90 ff.) Bound in contemporary vellum. Ownership inscription of George Newell, 1721, on title-page and related note inside back cover
    Language:English
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  • 20
    Declaracion, and Sad encomion, by Sir Thomas Wroth
    1635
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 34
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Wroth Sir Thomas 1584-1672.
    Extent:6 ff. Both items are within a small, formerly folded booklet, endorsed "For Sir Nathaniell Rich" (f.6v). The "Declaracion" is in the hand of an amanuensis, with corrections by Wroth; the "Sad encomion" is autograph
    Language:English
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