Skip to main content

Search Special Collections

Results

1 to 12 of 27 records

Total number of records: 27

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items11
Archives9
Coins7

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection13
Incunabula11
Coin Collection7
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society5
Medieval Manuscripts3
Ripon Cathedral1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
apocalyptic literature1
birds1
books of hours1
christ1
church renewal1
encyclopedias and dictionaries1
fabulous animals1
insects1
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)1
philologists1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
Rome3
Alexandria Troas1
Antioch1
Florence (Italy)1
Thessaloniki1
Trier1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)6
Baron Brotherton5
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton5
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton5
Lord Brotherton5
Sir Edward Allen Brotherton5
Berio, Francesco Maria4
Berio, Francesco Maria Marchese DI Salza (1765-1820)4
Berio, Giovanni Domenico4
Berio, Giovanni Domenico Marchese DI Salza (1791)4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From earliest1
From 1002
From 2001
From 3002
From 5001
From 12004
From 13001
From 140015

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 991
Up to 1992
Up to 2991
Up to 3992
Up to 5991
Up to 12994
Up to 13991
Up to 149915
Virgin and Child with a Patron (fol. 187r)
Archive Piece

Virgin and Child with a Patron (fol. 187r)

[ca. 1440-1460]

6-line historiated initial 'D' with a female patron praying, and holding a book under her arm, in front of the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child. The border is decorated with a butterfly, a bird, a gro...

More details and larger image


Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 147-8

Issuer/creator: Antoninus Pius (138-61)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

Floral border (fol. 127r)
Archive Piece

Floral border (fol. 127r)

[ca. 1404-1425]

Full bar-frame border in gold and in rose/blue with, at the corners, clusters of acanthus leaves and aroid flowers. From the border clusters of spray penwork extend gold balls with green squiggles. 7-...

More details and larger image


Archive Print piece

D2r

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

More details


Archive Print piece

K4r

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

More details


Archive Print piece

ll3r

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

More details


Archive Print piece

L4r

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

More details


Archive Item

Three part agreement

20 Mar 1343

1. Edmund de Welle of Dalton 2. Marmaduke Darel 3. The Prioress of Basedale Whereas Edmund has granted to Marmaduke an annual rent of 13 s. 4 d. of silver issuing from Edmund's capital messuage,...

More details


Archive Item

Grant and quitclaim

Mid 13th century

1. Adam son of Robert de Wambwelle 2. Simon de Chyuit Adam grants and quitclaims to Simon a bovate of land with all appurtenances in Chyuit, which William son of Reginald formerly held. [This is ...

More details

[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Archive Item

[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1440-1460]

Decoration: 12 large miniatures in arched compartments surrounded by full borders on parti-coloured grounds divided up into areas of liquid gold and unpainted vellum. Decorated borders throughout the ...

More details and larger image


Archive Print Item

Praeclarissimvm opus Diui Isidori Hyspalensis Episcopi, quod Ethimologiarum intitulatur... [etc.]

Isidore of Seville, Saint (636)

[25 May 1499]

Charles Debougne's device appears on t.p. above the bookseller Jean Alexandre's address; colophon (leaf r5v) reads: Impressum Parrhisii Op[er]a magistri Georgii VVolff & Thielma[n]ni keruer. [for Jean...

More details