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  • 1
    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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  • 2
    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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  • 3
    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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  • 4
    Miscellany of poems, largely on affairs of state
    1669-1691
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 86
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (30 ff.), predominantly in a single hand Pamphlet sewn as single gathering, with outer blank leaves (ff.1 and 25) as cover, apparently entitled "Carmine", together with modern signature of M. N. Jordan. Loosely inserted are two poems on 4 ff. in two conjugate pairs
    Language:English
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  • 5
    Pastoral poem, "A silly Sheapheard in Arcadia dwelt"
    ca.1630
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 33
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:4 pp. With smudges and corrections, including omitted line interpolated: probably a copy. Conjugate folios. Watermark narrow, ending at tail with a "decrescent". Lines 23, 54 and 88 are badly affected by holes frayed in a former horizontal fold; page nos. 1 and 2 removed by corners being torn away
    Language:English
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  • 6
    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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  • 7
    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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  • 8
    The sacred historie conteined in the First Boocke of Moses called Genesis ... March 10, 1669
    1669-1670
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 2
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (232 pages) Manuscript book in a single hand, devoted entirely to "The sacred historie" and associated pieces; probably autograph
    Language:English
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  • 9
    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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  • 10
    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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  • 11
    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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  • 12
    Collection of Restoration satires
    ca.1666-ca.1725
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 12
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:4 ff
    Language:English
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  • 13
    Collection of English verse
    ca.1600-ca.1710
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 11
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:63 ff
    Language:English
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  • 14
    Collection of transcribed and autograph poems, gathered together with other papers, largely poetical
    ca.1700-1755
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 67
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:130 ff. Almost wholly in the same mid 18th-century hand
    Language:English
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  • 15
    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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  • 16
    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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  • 17
    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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  • 18
    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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  • 19
    The troubles of Joseph related in scripture translated into English verse in imitation of Mr Abraham Cowleys Davideis
    1680
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 51
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 vol. ( on 45 pp. of [ii], 45, [182] pp., otherwise blank) Title is followed by "The contents" (4 lines). Date, 1680, in margin opposite heading of "The first Canto". Some text corrections. "R H" and flourishes, in faded ink, at top of front cover; possibly author's initials. Bound in limp vellum, worn and holed especially on spine and back cover, three thongs, two leather tie-pairs (half of lower pair gone). Paper label on front cover inscribed, probably in a later hand, "Joseph / A poem". Fore-edge inscribed "Poems"
    Language:English
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  • 20
    Supplementary cantos to Gondibert, by Sir William Davenant
    1678
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 23
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Davenant William 1606-1668.
    Extent:12 ff. Watermark: ornament resembling fleur-de-lys. Written in a single hand
    Language:English
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