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  • 1
    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 Discription of London by a Lady
    ca.1750
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 47
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:Single folded leaf Pro Patria watermark. One couplet is divided between 1st and 2nd page. Some mis-spellings, e.g. "Palaceses", uncorrected; hastily written, probably a copy. Second page has letters cut into, and the first has the fold touching some initial letters of lines. Some minor tears across this fold
    Language:English
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  • 3
    Autograph collection of poems, by James Dallaway
    ca.1747-1758
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 83
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Dallaway James fl ca1747-1758.
    Extent:1 vol. (72 ff.) Bound in contemporary sheep, with marbled paper crudely pasted over boards, manuscript label in centre of front cover inscribed "Poems &c by James Dallaway", and spine lettered in manuscript "POETRY Dallaway". Armorial bookplate of James Dallaway pasted inside front cover, with "of Miserden, Gloster" and number "139" added in manuscript. Evidently autograph and compiled in stages, with first sequence of 18 poems to f.24r, then second of 14 poems to f.43v, followed by further poems thereafter and inserted in spaces throughout
    Language:English
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  • 4
    Collection of English poems
    ca.1701-1725
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 36
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Extent:1 vol. (58 ff.) Paged to p."77" (f.37r), but pp."9"-"10" are totally wanting, with part of the text of poems; paged again 1-9 (ff.53r-58r). Final pastedown has signatures of William Pidduck 1824 and William Gilbert Pidduck 1888. Bound in modern sheep gilt, antique style
    Language:English
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  • 5
    On her majesty's birth day : a poem on Queen Caroline's birthday, by Stephen Duck
    ca. 1735
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 111
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Duck Stephen 1705-1756.
    Extent:2 ff. conjoined, manuscript, together with an engraving of Stephen Duck on a separate sheet of paper. Written in a single eighteenth-century hand, and endorsed in another hand on f.2v, thus: 'Duck's poem on Queen's birth-day'
    Language:English
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  • 6
    Poems, songs and translations etc., by T. F.
    1770-1779
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 64
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Forrest Theodosius 1728-1784.
    Extent:1 vol. (84 ff.) Pages bearing text of poems are numbered, some being written on rectos only; blank leaves and versos are unnumbered. Bound in contemporary calf, marbled boards
    Language:English
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  • 7
    Two anonymous eighteenth-century poems on the Godalming Rabbits
    ca. 1726
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 116
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known] [Not.
    Extent:2 ff. conjoined, but torn along most of the join as if extracted from a larger work, manuscript. Written in a single neat eighteenth-century hand
    Language:English
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  • 8
    Lisy's parting with her cat, by James Thomson
    ca.1725
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 10
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Thomson James 1700-1748.
    Extent:1 f. Autograph manuscript
    Language:English
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  • 9
    The life and actions of W.S. written by himself during his confinement in the tower at Liverpool
    1796
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 101
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Shevington William fl 1747.
    Extent:1 vol. (15 ff.), manuscript. Written in a single neat eighteenth-century hand by Carter Draper. 'Carter Draper scripsit 3 June 1796' is at the foot of the title-page. Bound in boards with a leather gilt-embossed spine and marbling on the outside covers. On the inside front cover there is the armorial bookplate of Richard Ford, author of the Guide to Spain, and on the inside back cover there is the armorial bookplate of Albert Louis Cotton, both presumably denoting ownership. The text is paginated 1-30
    Language:English
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  • 10
    Poems on several occasions
    ca.1700-1710
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 52
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 vol. (116 ff.) Bound in contemporary panelled calf. F.1v. blank; ff.2-112, on which poems appear, paged 1-222. Table of contents on ff.113r-116r, the latter being the rear-free endpaper
    Language:English
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  • 11
    Miscellany of poems transcribed and in part composed by George Weller
    ca. 1750
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 51
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Weller George.
    Extent:1 vol. (vi, 226pp.), manuscript. Miscellany of autograph and copied verse, probably written by the single hand of George Weller, ca. 1750. Pp.i-v, 109-119, 134-157, 159, 163-167, 181, 187, 198, 208-223, 225-226 are blank. Bound in a vellum cover with some blind tooling and the letters '3:F/Sup:Fine(?)/Poems' written at the top of the spine in brown ink
    Language:English
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  • 12
    Verse translation of Book III, metre 9 of Boethius's De consolatione philosophiae, by Alexander Pope
    ca.1703-1704
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 16
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Pope Alexander 1688-1744.
    Extent:One page, together with bifolium letter
    Language:English
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  • 13
    A birthday ode (Latin epigraph from Horace)
    1746
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 31
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:2 ff
    Language:English
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  • 14
    Collection of poems by William Hamilton Esq. of Bangour
    ca. 1750
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 115
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Hamilton William 1704-1754.
    Extent:1 vol. ([ii], 162pp.), manuscript. Written in a single neat eighteenth-century hand. Pp.ii and 158-160 are blank. Bound in brown leather on boards with decorated blind tooling on both outside covers and the spine
    Language:English
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  • 15
    A card to Mr G--k: upon seeing him yesterday evening in the character of K. Richard
    1776
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 70
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    known Not.
    Extent:1 f. Verso blank with traces of glue
    Language:English
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  • 16
    Miscellany of twenty-four original poems, attributed to William Tunstall
    ca. 1770
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 65
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Tunstall William.
    Extent:1 vol. (69 ff.), folio manuscript. Written in a single and regular hand. Finely bound in light brown leather on thick boards with decorated gilt tooling and the title 'ORIGINAL POEMS' embossed on the spine. On the inside front cover there is a bookplate on which the words 'EX LIBRIS ROBERT TUNSTILL' are printed
    Language:English
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  • 17
    To the late Queen as she went to Bath, apparently by Thomas Warton
    18th century
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 13
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Warton Thomas 1688-1745.
    Extent:1 f. Single sheet with added title recto and verso, subsequently foliated 79, apparently when assembled into the same collection relating to Bath as that from which Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 1 derives. The attribution "Mr Wharton" is in a later hand
    Language:English
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  • 18
    To a young lady who commanded a mathematician to write verses, by Brook Taylor
    ca.1710
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt q 35
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Taylor Brook 1685-1731.
    Extent:Written on both sides of f.[1] of [2], conjugate. In a single hand, apparently autograph
    Language:English
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  • 19
    Poems of various kinds, by Peter Pinnell and others
    ca. 1750-1790
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 104
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Pinnell Peter ca 1720-1783.
    Extent:1 vol. (137 ff.), manuscript. Written in a single eighteenth-century hand. Most of the verso pages are blank. The foliation runs from 1-109 on ff.2-110 only. Bound in medium brown leather with blind tooling on the outside covers and spine and marbling on the inside covers and endpapers
    Language:English
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  • 20
    The transport. An ode. By Mr Mitchel, S.T.S., Anno Dom. 1718
    1718
    Ref:GB 206 Brotherton Collection MS Lt 59
    Location:University of Leeds Special Collections
    Name of creator:
    Mitchell Joseph.
    Extent:1 vol. (8 ff.) Sewn in contemporary marbled-paper wrappers, much of the back wrapper being torn away. Signed Jos Mitchell on f.3r; text, ff.4r-7r; ff.1, 2v, 3v, 7v and 8 are blank
    Language:English
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