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Total number of records: 33

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Archives20
Coins6
Books and printed items6
Textiles1

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection11
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society11
Coin Collection6
Incunabula6
Medieval Manuscripts4
International Textile Collection1
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.2
manuscripts, hebrew -- 14th century -- texts.2
books of hours1
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes.1
christ1
commandments, six hundred and thirteen -- early works to 1800.1
illustrated works (manuscripts).1
jewish law -- early works to 1800.1
jewish women -- prayers and devotions -- texts.1
jews -- dietary laws -- early works to 1800.1

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PlaceCount
Pavia2
Rome2
Comtat Venaissin (France)1
Egypt1
London1
Macedon1
Provence (France)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Constantine I (306-37)3
Baron Brotherton2
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton2
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)2
Catholic Church2
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton2
Lord Brotherton2
Sir Edward Allen Brotherton2
Ambrose Saint, Bishop of Milan (397)1
Avraham Ibn ʿEzra1

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Floral border (fol. 114v)
Archive Piece

Floral border (fol. 114v)

[ca. 1404-1425]

Full bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue with, at the corners, clusters of acanthus leaves. From the border clusters of spray penwork extend gold balls with green squiggles. 8-line introductory ...

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 79-80 AD

Issuer/creator: Titus (79-81)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

Calendar: July (fol. 7v)
Archive Piece

Calendar: July (fol. 7v)

[ca. 142-?]

The scenes in the historiated border are: an unidentified bishop; St Mary Magdalen holding a book and an ointment jar; St. Christopher carrying Christ across the stream, and St. James the Great, hold...

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Archive Item

Grant

5 Nov 1427

1. John Campsall of Acastre Malbys 2. Thomas Campsall of Acastre Malbys his son

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Archive Item

Lease for life with warranty

2 Feb 1382

1. Aveline de laybourn dwelling in Snayth 2. Robert de Hatherne dwelling in Hethensale and John his brother Aveline demises for a term to Robert and John one bovate of land and meadow which Avelin...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid brown, complex plain woven fabric. The fragment includes part of the selvedge. Adjacent to the selvedge are four blue dyed warp thread stripes of 12, 6, 6 and 25 threads.

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Solomon instructing Rehoboam (fol. 147v)
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Solomon instructing Rehoboam (fol. 147v)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'A' encloses the scene of King Solomon, wearing a crown and holding a feather quill and an ink bottle (?), teaching Rehoboam, who is holding a book.

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Archive Print piece

Sixth front flyleaf recto (foldout open)

M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

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E7v

M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

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Archive Print piece

gg3v

M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

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Archive Print piece

F7v

M.cccc.l.xxvii. die primo Iullii. [1 July 1477]

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