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  • 1
    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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  • 2
    Thomas Walker's Book of Miscellanies
    1712
    Ref:GB 133 Eng MS 521
    Location:University of Manchester Library
    Name of creator:
    Name of Author: various but mainly Thomas Walker.
    Extent:190 x 150 mm. 1 volume (124 + xii folios);
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  • 3
    Ten manuscript poems by Edmund Waller written into a copy of the 1686 edition of his Poems, etc.
    ca. 1690
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 94
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Waller Edmund 1606-1687.
    Extent:1 vol. ([viii], 301, [5]pp.), printed book, with 4pp. of manuscript poetry at the beginning and 5pp. at the end written on both sets of endpapers. The manuscript poetry is written in a single hand, probably ca. 1690. Bound in leather with some gilt tooling on the spine and also the words WALLERS POEMS embossed on it. On the outside front cover there is an armorial bookplate in the shape of a diamond with the names Elianore Mary printed on it, presumably a note of ownership
    Language:English
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  • 4
    D. E. Jenkins Manuscripts,
    Lecture notes,
    ?1892-1895 /
    Ref:GB 210 NLW MS 12831B
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Language:English
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  • 5
    Welsh and English Poetry Collection
    17th century
    Ref:GB 222 BMSS WEPC
    Location:Archifdy Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University Archives
    Name of creator:
    Various.
    Extent:1 item
    Language:Welsh, English, and Latin
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  • 6
    English translations of verses from Ovid's Metamorphoses, written into a German translation of the latter by Johannes Posthius
    ca. 1600
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 76
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Milton John 1608-1674.
    Extent:Printed book, with manuscript additions. The volume is worn, with a loose spine and detached boards; it is currently conserved in a brown box
    Language:Latin German 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
    Miscellaneous collection of eighteenth-century English poetry and prose, with additional later material
    ca. 1750-1770
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 93
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known] [Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (111 ff.), manuscript. Written mainly in a single hand, with additional material in a later nineteenth-century hand. Ff.69v-106v are blank
    Language:English
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  • 9
    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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  • 10
    Mysevin Manuscripts
    'Coll Gwynfa',
    1818-1819 /
    Ref:GB 210 NLW MS 13249B I-II
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Extent:Formerly unbound, now repaired and bound in quarter leather.All the pages are partly discoloured and affected by damp.All the pages are partly discoloured and affected by damp
    Language:Welsh
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  • 11
    Herbert of Cherbury Manuscripts and Papers
    Poetry,
    [1620x1648].
    Ref:GB 210 E3
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Extent:1 bundle
    Language:Latin, English
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  • 12
    Collection of topical poems, mostly political satires, concerning the reign of Queen Anne
    ca. 1704
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 81
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known] [Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (9 ff.), manuscript. Written in a single hand. F.1 is blank, apart from the pencilled number 32 on recto. Bound in boards with dark red half leather and marbling on the outside covers
    Language:English
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  • 13
    Poetical miscellany mainly of contemporary satires, by various authors, chiefly anonymous
    ca. 1680
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 87
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known] [Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (90 ff.), manuscript. Written by a single hand. Ff.78-90 are blank. Bound in brown leather boards with decorated gilt tooling on both covers and the spine. On the inside front cover there is a bookplate with a printed coat of arms and the words 'E LIBRIS ROBERTI MARCHIONIS DE CREWE' and the name 'Michael Phillips' written in pencil in a modern hand below it. On f.78v there is a pencilled drawing of a lady wearing a long dress and high heels and holding what appears to be a small lamp or goblet
    Language:English
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  • 14
    Commonplace-book of English verse, drama, and prose by various authors, including Robert Southwell and Josuah Sylvester
    ca. 1601-1700
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 91
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known] [Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (179 ff.), manuscript. Mainly written in a single hand, but with later additions in other hands. Worn and damaged. Bound with dark brown leather on boards with a light pink paper dust-jacket
    Language:English
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  • 15
    Octavius, or A dialogue betwixt a Christian and an Infidel, from the original of M. Minutius Felix, with large annotations by William Cooke
    ca. 1750
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 95
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Marcus Minucius Felix.
    Extent:1 vol. (95 ff.), manuscript. Probably written in a single eighteenth-century hand, possibly autograph. Bound in boards with a gilt tooled leather spine and blue marbling on the outside. The annotations are written on pages facing the translated text to which they refer
    Language:English
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  • 16
    Commonplace book, compiled largely by Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Diss in Norfolk
    ca. 1670-1744
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 114
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Deynes Charles.
    Extent:1 vol. (122 ff.), manuscript. Written in several seventeenth and eighteenth-century hands from both ends of the volume, meeting after f.101v. Bound in plain vellum with the number 29 written in ink on the upper part of the spine. Several parts of leaves have been inserted into the volume, so that it is not clear which leaves were original. The volume has not yet been systematically foliated. On f.1r there is the note 'This book once belong'd to the [honor?] Mr Charles Deynes of Roydon near Disse in Norf. and is a great part of it of his own handwriting'
    Language:English
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  • 17
    A collection of documents relating to the Fairfax family, together with other miscellaneous material, compiled by Charles Fairfax and others
    ca.1650-1710
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Yks q 1
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Fairfax Charles Colonel 1597-1673.
    Extent:1 vol. (33 ff.), folio and quarto manuscript. Written in several hands, including that of Charles Fairfax. The manuscript leaves are all mounted on folio sheets and are worn, torn, and dust-stained. Bound in modern morocco-backed boards, with a gilt-embossed spine lettered thus: CHARLES FAIRFAX.- MENSTON, YORKS. 1597-1673
    Language:English Latin Italian
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  • 18
    Miscellany of prose writings with some poetry by various authors
    ca. 1690-1700
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 79
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known] [Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (134, [3] ff.), manuscript. Written mainly in a single hand, but with at least one other hand represented in some parts of the text towards the end of the volume. Bound in vellum with some blind tooling
    Language:English Latin
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  • 19
    D.O. Jones, Caernarfon Manuscript Collection
    1570's-1840's
    Ref:GB 222 BMSS DOJ
    Location:Archifdy Prifysgol Bangor / Bangor University Archives
    Name of creator:
    Caernarfon DO Jones.
    Extent:6 items
    Language:Welsh, and English
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  • 20
    Panton Manuscripts
    Commonplace book
    [1770s]
    Ref:GB 210 NLW MS 1971B [RESTRICTED ACCESS]
    Location:National Library of Wales / Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru
    Extent:332 ff. (paginated 1-664; various old foliations; pp. 29-32, 132-135, 149-152, 174-180, 452-460, 508-512 blank) ; c. 205 x 165 mm. Calf over boards with a leather spine; blind tooling
    Language:Welsh, English, Latin
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