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Total number of records: 63

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Coins44
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Coin Collection44
Brotherton Collection9
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society6
Incunabula5
Medieval Manuscripts4
International Textile Collection1
Ripon Cathedral1

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fabulous animals2
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)2
angels1
books of hours1
sermons, latin1

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Rome40
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Egypt1
Larissa1
Sicyon1

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Antoninus Pius (138-61)37
Constantine I (306-37)2
Antoninus Pius (138-161)1
Askew, Anthony (1722-1774)1
Baron Brotherton1
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton1
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)1
Catholic Church1
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton1
Dinus De Mugello (1254-1300)1

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 103-11

Issuer/creator: Trajan (98-117)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

An angel and a grotesque (fol. 19v)
Archive Piece

An angel and a grotesque (fol. 19v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes an angel blowing a bagpipe-type instrument, and a grotesque with a man's upper body attached to the body of a four-legged animal carrying a carafe.

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Archive Item

Gift with warranty

30 Mar 1465

1. John Wygan and John Osset feofees of Richard Hawell for the use and implementation of Richard's wishes for certain lands in Snayth [Snaith] 2. Thomas Hochonson and Agnes his wife 1, by assent a...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid brown, complex plain woven fabric.

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Baruch writing (fol. 334v)
Archive Piece

Baruch writing (fol. 334v)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'H' encloses the scene of the prophet Baruch writing at a lectern, holding a quill and a quill knife. An initial 'L' is decorated with a hybrid of an animal and foliage, and a hybrid of a bird...

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Archive Print piece

A1v

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

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Archive Print piece

G3v

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

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Archive Print piece

hh2v

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

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Archive Print piece

H3v - flames on Servius’s head

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

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Archive Item

Lease for a term with warranty

29 Sep 1332

1. John son of Margaret de Bouncroft of Couwik 2. Alexander de Crydeling and Agnes his wife John has demised to Alexander and Agnes for a certain sum of money, a toft with buildings upon it in Cou...

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