Search Special Collections
Results
Total number of records: 20
Count of Collection group
Top 10: Subject
| Subject | Count |
|---|---|
| manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern) | 4 |
| jewish law -- early works to 1800. | 3 |
| books of hours | 2 |
| cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes. | 2 |
| commandments, six hundred and thirteen -- early works to 1800. | 2 |
| manuscripts, hebrew -- 13th century -- texts. | 2 |
| bible. pentateuch. aramaic. onkelos -- texts. | 1 |
| bible. pentateuch. hebrew -- texts. | 1 |
| breviaries | 1 |
| censored manuscripts. | 1 |
Top 10: People and organisations
Count of Earliest date
Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts
14th century
Comprises: 1) a leaf from a late 14th-century (?) Book of Hours, with a large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The miniature is surrounded by a full decorated borde...
Denomination: bronze coin
Date(s): 145-135 BCE
Issuer/creator: Lysias
Material: copper alloy
Legenda aurea sanctorum, by Jacobus de Voragine
de Voragine, Jacobus Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)
c.1312
Includes a 13th century manuscript of Josephus and a 13th century Breviary bound into the codex as fly-leaves
[Greek Gospels]
McLeish, Charles (1949-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor
10th century
Manuscript in Greek Minuscule on parchment, containing the text of the Gospels, with lectionary divisions in margins. Imperfect: wanting numerous leaves and with some sections of the text supplied lat...
Decorated incipit word (fol. 3r)
[ca. 1140-1160]
Large initial 'A' decorated with stylised fan-shaped leaves and curved pen lines, in green, red and blue, followed by the remaining letters of the incipit word 'APOCALIPSIS' in blue and red.
wreath fragment
1200-1100 BCE
Part of a wreath taken from the mummy of Ramses II. Ramses II died in 1213BCE, but his mummy was moved after his death and the wreathes found on in his coffin are believed to have been added at a lat...
roundel
4th Century
Coptic hand woven linen textile with leaf/fan shaped motif. There is delicate interlace embroidery on the surface in dark blue wool. The motif appears to be surrounded by vine leaves, a common design....
[Mishneh Torah, sefer shofṭim : hilkhot Sanhedrin (ḥeleḳ), hilkhot ʿedut, hilkhot mamrim (ḥeleḳ) / me-et Mosheh ben Maimon]. [משנה תורה, ספר שופטים : הלכות סנהדרין (חלק), הלכות עדות, הלכות ממרים (חלק) / מאת משה בן מימון]. [The Repetition of the law by Maimonides, book of judges : laws concerning the Sanhedrin, testimony, and disobedience].
Maimonides, Moses (1135-1204)
[14th century]
Title supplied by cataloguer. Variant titles: Yad ha-ḥazaḳah. יד החזקה. Summary: Part of an illuminated manuscript of Sefer shofṭim of Mishneh Torah with leaves missing at its beg...
Denomination: denarius
Date(s): 116-15 BCE
Issuer/creator: Marcus Sergius Silus
Place: Rome
Material: silver
Acknowledgement of receipt of the vill of Stockeld
[Early 13th century]
Declaration by Baldwin de Stockeld, as brother and heir of Richard de Stockeld, that he had received from the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St Peter of York, the vill, also the land which his...
Undertaking to pay annual sum
[Early 13th century]
Bond of Baldwin de Stockeld to his lords, the Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St Peter of York, to pay 20s yearly, and to pay on their behalf 8s yearly to the heirs of William Trussebut for the...
Surrender of a messuage, two bovates of land and common of pasture in le Parke
[1301]
1 Ralph son of Richard de Stockild 2 Master and Brethren of the Hospital of St Leonard at York, his chief lords Property: premises which he had formerly held of them and which Robert le Grayve h...