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Total number of records: 19

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Archives15
Books and printed items3
Coins1

Count of Collection group

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Brotherton Collection14
Medieval Manuscripts11
Incunabula3
Ripon Cathedral2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Coin Collection1

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angels4
fabulous animals4
king david3
animals1
bible1
comedy1
manuscripts, hebrew1
saints1
virgin mary1

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Asia1
Rome1

Top 10: People and organisations

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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)3
Badius, Josse (1462-1535)2
Donatus, Aelius2
Gruninger, Johann2
Jouenneaux, Guy (1507)2
Terence2
Bebel, Heinrich (1472-1518)1
Calfurnio, Giovanni (1503)1
Cantrell, William1
Curtius, Joannes of Ebersbach1

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A man and a monster making music (fol. 26v)
Archive Piece

A man and a monster making music (fol. 26v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a bear-like grotesque playing a drum, and a man playing a psaltery.

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Virgin Mary (fol. 18v)
Archive Piece

Virgin Mary (fol. 18v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes an angel carrying two wine carafes, an angel playing a psaltery, an angel playing a hurdy-gurdy, and a grotesque playing a brass instrument. The historiated initial has...

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Men making music and behaving curiously (fol. 29r)
Archive Piece

Men making music and behaving curiously (fol. 29r)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a man playing a drum, and a man hitting an upside-down cauldron with an axe.

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King David (fol. 10r)
Archive Piece

King David (fol. 10r)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Depicted in the miniature is King David playing the harp, surrounded by books and a stringed instrument.

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Jacob wrestling the angel (fol. 223r)
Archive Piece

Jacob wrestling the angel (fol. 223r)

[ca. 1260]

The first initial 'E' encloses the scene of Jacob wrestling the angel, and the second initial 'E' has David playing the bells.

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Angel making music (fol. 17r)
Archive Piece

Angel making music (fol. 17r)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes an angel in a cloud playing a hurdy-gurdy, a monk carrying a processional cross, and a running man with a long candle.

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St Mark (fol. 17v)
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St Mark (fol. 17v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes an angel playing a hurdy-gurdy; a lion, the symbol of the Evangelist St Mark, and St Mark writing.

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Dragon making music (fol. 18r)
Archive Piece

Dragon making music (fol. 18r)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a man wearing a blue jacket with gold buttons and a belt, and a two-legged dragon with wings playing a brass instrument.

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Man making music (fol. 19r)
Archive Piece

Man making music (fol. 19r)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a man playing a hurdy-gurdy, 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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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 66 BCE

Issuer/creator: Quintus Pomponius Musa

Place: Rome

Material: silver

King David and the Judgement of Solomon (fol. 197r)
Archive Piece

King David and the Judgement of Solomon (fol. 197r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'B' encloses a scene of King David playing his harp. The other initial 'B' encloses the scene of the judgement of Solomon, in which Solomon commands a soldier to divide a living child in two. ...

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Archive Item

Demise for eight years of £10 of land and rent in the vill of Stockeld

25 Jun 1272

1 Richard son of Thomas de Stockheld 2 Roger de Plays, citizen of York

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