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Brotherton Collection5
Medieval Manuscripts4
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Cookery Collection1

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jewish law -- early works to 1800.3
manuscripts, hebrew -- 13th century -- texts.3
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)3
bible. pentateuch. hebrew -- texts.2
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes.2
commandments, six hundred and thirteen -- early works to 1800.2
illustrated works (manuscripts).2
bible1
bible. pentateuch. aramaic. onkelos -- texts.1
censored manuscripts.1

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Yemen2
Central Europe1
Luka U Verusice (Czech Republic)1
Norwich (England)1
Penzance (England)1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Ha-Rambam2
Maimon, Mosheh Ben2
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)2
MaymūN, MūSá Ibn2
Mosheh Ben Maimon2
Rambam2
מושה בן מיימון2
מיימון, משה2
רמב״ם2
Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)1

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Archive Judaica File

[Torah ʿim targum ʿArvi-Yehudi : Bereshit 42:30–43:24]. [תורה עם תרגום ערבי־יהודי : בראשית מב:ל-מג:כד]. [Genesismm xlii.30–xliii.24, with Judaeo-Arabic translation after each verse: Oriental (? Karaite)].

[13th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 529. Variant titles: Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah. ח...

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Coptic papyrus
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Coptic Letter

7th - 8th century

Framed papyrus fragment of a Coptic letter, labelled: "COPTIC LETTER Pap: Cantab H. Loewe 1 a+b 70844" Cantab is a shortened version of Cambridge. The reference number is the original University acc...

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[Torah ʿim targum Onḳelos : Devarim 9:25–31:16]. [תורה עם תרגום אונקלוס : דברים ט:כה-לא:טז]. [Pentateuch with Aramaic translation : Deuteronomy 9:25–31:16].

[13th century ?]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Variant titles: Tag'. תאג׳. Taj. Ḥamishah ḥumshe Torah. חמישה חומשי תורה. State of text: Incomplete; at least 4 quires at beginning and an ...

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Book of the Dead

1200BCE-850 BCE

Framed papyrus, labelled: "Papyrus No. 2. Book of the Dead, written for Jed-Khensu, who bears the title of "Priest (nab) of Amen, scribe of the temple of Amen and scribe of the temple of Mut". The s...

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[In epistolas canonicas]
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[In epistolas canonicas]

Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)

[ca. 1100-1150]

Quires numbered at the end. Decoration: 7 large initials on decorated blue, or blue and green grounds, outlined and touched with red. Written in Continental Caroline Minuscule. Principal content...

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Legenda aurea sanctorum
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Legenda aurea sanctorum

Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)

[ca. 1300-1320]

The medieval foliation is one too high after f. 45. Quires are numbered and horizontal catchwords included. Decoration: One 10-line historiated initial in blue patterned in white and on decorated ...

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[Latin account-roll of William de Rothing, Sheriff of Norfolk, directed to the Bailiffs of Norwich, including crown-debts in Norwich, 1286–1287, lists of sums owed by Norwich Christians to the justices of the Jews, 1265–1266, 1270–1271, 1279–1288, and a portrait-caricature of a Jew].

[1287–1288]

Title supplied by cataloguer. First membrane is written on both sides (opisthograph). A discussion and full transcription of MS Roth *270 provides Roth’s student, Vivian D. Lipman, “The Roth...

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Royal charter of confirmation

12 Mar 1205

1. John, King of England 2. The Nuns and Priory of Appleton (Nun Appleton in Yorkshire) Recital and confirmation of all previous grants of land, which all except for the last two grants were conta...

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Cowton, North Riding of Yorkshire: grant

c1201-1218

Grant by Conan, son of Elias ['Helyas'] to William de Merlay of two bovates of land in the vill of Cutona Witnesses: Roald, constable of Richmond; Brien son of Alan; Roger de Lascelles; Robert de La...

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