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Archives31
Textiles6
Books and printed items4
Coins1

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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society18
Brotherton Collection8
International Textile Collection6
Medieval Manuscripts5
Incunabula4
Ripon Cathedral2
Coin Collection1

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judaism -- liturgy -- texts.5
manuscripts, hebrew -- 15th century -- texts.4
mahzorim -- texts.3
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)3
judaism -- italy -- liturgy -- texts -- early works to 1800.2
judaism -- roman rite -- liturgy -- texts.2
manuscripts, hebrew -- 14th century -- texts.2
atonement1
breviaries1
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes.1

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Egypt6
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Comtat Venaissin (France)1
Constantinople1
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Yorkshire (England)1

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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)5
Baron Brotherton4
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton4
Lord Brotherton4
Sir Edward Allen Brotherton4
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton3
Abbatibus, Johannes De1
Abu Ayyub Sulaiman Ibn YaḥYa Ibn Jabirul1
Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109)1
Avencebrol1

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Archive Item

Lease for 11 years with warranty

29 Sep 1343

1. Henry Dynchard of Snaith and William his son 2. Thomas le Frere of Snaith and Margaret his son Lease of one messuage with buildings on it in the vill of Snaith (locations given), except for a c...

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Calendar: November (fol. 11r)
Archive Piece

Calendar: November (fol. 11r)

[ca. 1440-1460]

2-line 'KL' initials in blue and red, infilled with flowers and patterned with white penwork, on gold grounds. The decorated border has curling acanthus leaves, and blue lily and thistle type flowers....

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Psalm 24 (fol. 91r)
Archive Piece

Psalm 24 (fol. 91r)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Example of a text page with a decorated initial in blue on a gold ground, and infilled with a flower vine, and smaller initials in gold on blue and red grounds. Line-fillers are in the style of the in...

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Gift with warranty

22 Feb 1358

1. Patrick le Hatter of York 2. John de Cotyngham, formerly rector of Hesyngton Grant of a messuage in Conyngstret in York in breadth between the land of John Clervans and Thomas Vele and in lengt...

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Quitclaim

3 Feb 1393

1 Walter de Calverlay, knight 2 Abbot and Convent of Kirkstall Property: all right in the lands, tenements, rents and services which they had in Burley in Wharfedale of the grant of Walter de To...

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Court roll

1430-1431

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Grant

Mid 13th century

1. Henry de Chiuet 2. Robert de St. James and Margery daughter of Henry de Chiuet Henry grants to Robert and Margery and the heirs of their bodies all his land in the vill and fields of Chiuet, an...

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Quitclaim with warranty

24 Dec 1325

1) Richard miller of Colthorp 2) Sir John de Walkyngham Knight lord of 1) and Joan his wife and the heirs. of Sir John Quitclaim by 1) of 1 messuage and 3acres of land in Colthorp the which messuage...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of cream/light brown coloured, fine, plain woven cloth. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated in 1907. Inscri...

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Lease for 20 years

11 Nov 1296

1. Alice, widow of Giles Paume 2. Sir John Samson

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Quitclaim

1 Mar 1410

1. Walter Burton of Burton, Esquire 2. Richard Fode of Schaldeborn and John Hudd of Burton Walter has quitclaimed to Richard and John all Walter's lands, tenements etc. in Higher and Lower Burton ...

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Copy of court roll

8 Jan 1362

Court of the Chapter of Ripon. John de Wynterburn and Ellen his wife came and surrendered a messuage with garden adjacent and nine acres of land in North Stainley to the use of William Mason and Elea...

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