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Total number of records: 107

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	70
Archives	37

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	58
Medieval Manuscripts	35
Herbert Read Collection	13
Ripon Cathedral	3
Leeds Russian Archive	2
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture	1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
saints	107
fathers of the church	17
church history	16
legends	8
animals	4
christian art and symbolism	2
devotional literature	2
fabulous animals	2
monasticism and religious orders	2
sermons, french	2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Jacobus De Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)	22
Caxton, William	17
Caxton, William (1422-1491)	17
Ellis, Frederick Startridge	17
Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)	17
Le Nain De Tillemont, Louis Sebastien (1637-1698)	16
Catholic Church	6
Kelmscott Press	6
Jacobus	4
Stephens, George	3

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1500	38
From 1600	7
From 1700	22
From 1800	14
From 1900	26

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1599	38
Up to 1699	7
Up to 1799	22
Up to 1899	14
Up to 1999	26

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Life of Saint Marina of Escobar

17--

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Fasti Mariani cum Divorum elogiis in singulos anni dies distributis

Brunner, Andreas (1589-1650); Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary

1660

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Lives of saints : selected and abridged from the original work of the Rev. Alban Butler (v.1)

Butler, Alban (1711-1773); Challoner, Richard (1691-1781); Bell, John (1854)

1799

With "A short view of the history of the church", by Bishop Challoner: v. 1, p. 1-40. Selected and abridged by John Bell.

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Lives of saints : selected and abridged from the original work of the Rev. Alban Butler (v.2)

Butler, Alban (1711-1773); Challoner, Richard (1691-1781); Bell, John (1854)

1799

With "A short view of the history of the church", by Bishop Challoner: v. 1, p. 1-40. Selected and abridged by John Bell.

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The veneration of saints and images, as taught and practis'd in the Church of Rome, examined. A sermon preached at Salters-Hall, February 20, 1734-5

Hughes, Obadiah (1695-1751)

1735

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A book of miracles : ms. no. 645 4to of the Arna-Magnæan collection in the University library of Copenhagen

Holtsmark, Anne (1896-1974); Københavns Universitet. Biblioteket

1938

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Codex Scardensis

Slay, D

1960

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Oil sketch of St John

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch of St John by Edward Petre Novello, with a cutting from the Dial dated 1 October 1894 used as a folder.

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An East Midland revision of the South English legendary : a selection from MS C.U.L. Add. 3039

Görlach, Manfred

1976

Bibliography: pages 121-122.

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Shrines of British saints

Wall, J Charles

1905

Publisher's catalogue (40 pages) bound at end.

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De probatis Sanctorum historiis : partim ex tomis Aloysii Lipomani, doctissimi episcopi, partim etiam ex egregiis manuscriptis codicibus, quarum permultae antehàc nunquàm in lucem prodiêre (v.2)

Surius, Laurentius (1522-1578); Lippomano, Luigi (1500-1559)

1570-1577

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The Golden legend (v. 1)

Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298); Caxton, William (1422-1491); Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901); Kelmscott Press

1892

One of 500 copies. Ransom, Private Presses, p. 325-6. Decorated initials. Translated by William Caxton.