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Total number of records: 180

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items121
Archives44
Textiles10
Coins5

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection51
English Literature15
International Textile Collection10
Ripon Cathedral8
Coin Collection5
Incunabula3
Cookery Collection2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Quaker Collection1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
manuscripts, hebrew -- 17th century -- texts.15
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.10
manuscripts, hebrew -- 16th century -- texts.8
illustrated works (manuscripts).7
architecture6
legal documents -- italy -- texts.6
manuscripts, hebrew -- 15th century -- texts.6
cabala -- early works to 1800.5
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes.5
jews -- italy -- verona -- history -- sources.5

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Italy73
Venice (Italy)34
Rome (Italy)28
Rome11
Europe9
Florence (Italy)7
France5
Verona (Italy)5
Germany4
Milan (Italy)3

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Sarpi, Paolo (1552-1623)8
Lassels, Richard (1603?-1668)5
Giovio, Paolo (1483-1552)4
Misson, Maximilien (1650?-1722)4
Amelot De La Houssaye, Abraham Nicolas (1634-1706)3
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)3
Burnet, Gilbert (1643-1715)3
Fano, Immanuel Da3
Fano, Menahem Azariah Da (1548-1620)3
Machiavelli, Niccolo (1469-1527)3

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From earliest5
From 13001
From 14009
From 150055
From 1600108

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Up to 14999
Up to 159941
Up to 1699125

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Roma trionfante di Biondo da Forli

Biondo Flavio (1392-1463); Fauno, Lucio

1544

Imprint from colophon.

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Del regno d'Italia sotto i barbari

Tesauro, Emanuele conte (1592-1675); Castiglione, Valeriano

1680

Additional engraved title-page. Signatures: *¹²(-*2,3) A-2K¹² 2L⁶.

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The historye of Italye : a booke exceding profitable to be red: because it intreateth of the astate of many and dyuers common weales, how they have bene, and now be governed

Thomas, William (1554)

1561

Dedication signed: Wylliam Thomas. Colophon dated 1561. Leaves [4] (not present in this copy) and [76] are blank. Sig. A is found in two settings: leaf 1v has catchword "enough" or "enoughe". ...

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The present state of the princes and republicks of Italy : with observations on them. Written originally in English by J. Gailhard

Gailhard, J

1668

Running title reads: The present state of Italy. Present state of Italy.

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Commentario de le più notabili et mostruose cose d’Italia et altri luoghi, di lingua Aramea in Italiana tradotto. Con un breve catalogo de gli inventori de le cose che si mangiano et beveno, novamente ritrovato

Landi Ortensio (1512-1553); Da Cloch Baron; Salvatori, Maria Paola Moroni

1553

First item in bound volume of 2 items. A commentary on the most notable and monstrous things in Italy and other places, translated from the Aramean language into Italian. With a short catalogue of the...

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velvet fragment
Textile

velvet fragment

before 1700

Italian velvet with cut and uncut pile. The background is ecru and the velvet pattern is of stylized leaves.

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velvet fragment
Textile

velvet fragment

before 1700

The background textile is silk and silver plate. The pattern is formed from cut and uncut velvet.

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Archive Judaica Item

[Seder berit milah]. [סדר ברית מילה]. [Service for circumcision, with nine poems, some unpublished. Italian].

[16th–17th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title supplied from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 15. Alternative title: Tefilot li-verit milah. ת...

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La seconda libraria del Doni

Doni, Anton Francesco (1513-1574)

1551

Publisher's device on title-page. Discorso sopra l'academie d'Italia, titoli, cognomi, & opere, scritte vulgarmente": leaves 106-[113]. Contains the "libri a penna," complementing the author's Lib...

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Descrittione di tutta l'Italia & isole pertinenti ad essa

Alberti, Leandro (1479-1552); Borgarucci, Borgaruccio (fl. 1565-1589)

1581

Part 2 has separate pagination and title-page: Isole appartenenti all'Italia. Descritte da F. Leandro Alberti Bolognese. Di nuouo ricorrette, & con l'aggionta in più luoghi di diuerse cose occorse si...

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