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Total number of records: 335

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	332
Archives	3

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	52
Ripon Cathedral	19
English Literature	15
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	6
Quaker Collection	5
Herbert Read Collection	2
Incunabula	2
Leeds Russian Archive	2
Medieval Manuscripts	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
history, ancient	335
jews	45
world history	11
military art and science	10
chronology, historical	7
offensive (military science)	6
chronology	4
middle ages	4
sculpture, classical	4
antiquities	3

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Greece	88
Rome	36
Byzantine Empire	5
Middle East	4
Great Britain	3
Carthage	2
Egypt	2
Ethiopia	2
Europe	2
Rombald'S Moor (England)	2

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Herodotus	58
Polybius	36
Rollin, Charles (1661-1741)	32
Schweighauser, Johann (1742-1830)	31
Diodorus Siculus	28
Prideaux, Humphrey (1648-1724)	26
Schweighauser, Johann	26
Wesseling, Petrus	26
Wesseling, Petrus (1692-1764)	26
Eyring, Jeremias Nicolaus	22

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1400	4
From 1500	16
From 1600	27
From 1700	89
From 1800	157
From 1900	42

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1499	3
Up to 1599	14
Up to 1699	30
Up to 1799	66
Up to 1899	178
Up to 1999	42
Up to latest	2

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Miscellany notebook on classical subjects, with some additions by Anthony Higgin

c.1600

Contains: (1) f.4: Scilua variarum lectionum a Reuerendo Patre Bernardino Castorio...collecta et anno Domini 1579 Pridie Nonas octobris inchoata, followed by notes on the life and times of Aristotle, ...

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Miscellany notebook on philosophical subjects, compiled possibly by William Birch the younger

Birch, William

c.1590

Contains: (1) Summaries of Aristotle's 'Posterior analytics' and 'Ethics'; (2) Notes on Clichtoverus, 'De voluntaria'; T. Bricot, 'in 2o libro Physicorum Aristotelis'; 'Liber Gocle: R.' (i.e. R. Gocle...

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Histoire ancienne (v.1)

Burette, Théodose (1804-1847)

1843

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Histoire ancienne (v.2)

Burette, Théodose (1804-1847)

1843

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Histoire ancienne (v.3)

Burette, Théodose (1804-1847)

1843

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Flores historiarum per Matthæum Westmonasteriensem collecti: præcipue de rebus Britannicis: ab exordio mundi usque ad... MCCCVII. Et Chronicon ex chronicis, ab initio mundi usque ad ... MCXVIII. deductum: auctore Florentio Wigorniensi monacho. Cui accessit continuatio usque ad ... MCMLI. per quendam eiusdem cœnobii eruditum. Subiectis in calce operis index rerum satis locuples

Paris, Matthew (1200-1259); Florence of Worcester (1118); Parker, Matthew (1504-1575)

1601

The text covering the period to 1259 is based on Paris's Chronica majora; the text covering the period 1259-1307 was partly compiled and partly composed by various writers at St. Albans and Westminste...

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The Tollemache Orosius (British Museum additional manuscript 47967)

Orosius, Paulus; Campbell, A (1907-1974)

1953

Bibliography: page 26.

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Iconographie romaine (t.1)

Visconti, Ennio Quirino (1751-1818); Mongez (1747-1835); Imprimerie de P. Didot l̓aîné

1817-1826

Publication dates: vol. 1: 1817 -- vol. 2: 1824 -- vol. 3: 1826. All text volumes with half-titles: "Iconographie ancienne, ou Recueil des portraits authentiques des empereurs, rois, et hommes illus...

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