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Total number of records: 492

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Archives477
Books and printed items7
Indexes6
Coins1
Textiles1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection12
Liddle Collection6
University Archive5
Herbert Read Collection4
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture4
Letters Database3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3
Art and Antique Market2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History2
Leeds Russian Archive2

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
culture2
folk music2
anarchism1
anarchists1
authors, russian1
bible. pentateuch. hebrew -- texts.1
biography as a literary form1
church architecture1
communication1
community life1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Japan1
Nablus (West Bank)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2
National Women'S Aid Federation2
Women'S Aid2
Women'S Aid Federation England2
Women'S Aid Federation of England2
Academie Royale Des Sciences, Des Lettres Et Des Beaux-Arts De Belgique1
Andreyev, Leonid, 1871-19191
Anonymous1
Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)1
Bennett1

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 17003
From 180011
From 1900474
From 20004

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 17993
Up to 189910
Up to 1999472
Up to latest7

Archive Sub-collection

Letters to Frank Beckwith

Beckwith, Frank (1904-1977)

1926-1977

Letters to Frank Beckwith, from scholars, clergy, librarians and others, 1926-1977. This collection of more than 1200 in-letters reflects his many interests. Perhaps the most interesting group of let...

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Medal
Coin

Denomination: Medal

Date(s): 1860

Issuer/creator: Bennett

Material: white metal

stencil
Textile

stencil

late 19th-mid 20th Century

This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing, has a design of kites or origami figures amongst cloud. On the origami figures are birds flying through mist or cloud and possibly representations of pin...

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Archive Judaica File

[2 parashiyot ha-shavuʿah ke-minhag Shomronim : Ṿa-yiḳḥu li terumah; Ṿe-zeh ha-davar]. [ב׳ פרשיות השבוע כמנהג שומרונים : ויקחו לי תרומה, וזה הדבר]. [Miniature codex with 2 weekly Torah portions (Samaritan) : Exodus 25–28 and Exodus 28–31:17].

[19th century]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Miniature codex. Contents: 1. folios 1v–19r: ויקחו לי תרומה. 2. folios 19r–33r: וזה הדבר. State of text: Relatively well preserved; item...

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Archive Print Item

Sefer Moreh nevukhim... : ʻim shene perushim ... perush ha-rav Mosheh Narbonne u-ferush Givʻat ha-moreh (v.1)

Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204); Ibn Tibbon, Shmuel; Moses of Narbonne (1362); Maimon, Salomon (1754-1800); Satanow, Isaac Halevi (1733-1805); Euchel, Isaac Abraham (1758-1804); Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

between 551 and 556 [1791-1796]

"Auctore R. Mose Majemonide; Arabico idiomate conscriptus a R. Samuele Abben Thibbone in linguam Hebraeam translatus ; novis commentaris uno R. Mosis Narbonnensis, ex antiquissimis manuscriptis deprom...

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Sender: Radford, George H.

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 1

Date(s): 20 Dec 1905

Location: BC Clodd. In Clodd, "Pioneers of Evolution" [end]

Title: On the thanksgiving, 1746

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1746 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 7

Contents: Attack on the hypocrisy of commemorating the anniversary of the death of

Charles I

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