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Total number of records: 21

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Archives15
Books and printed items5
Coins1

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Brotherton Collection12
Medieval Manuscripts9
Incunabula3
Coin Collection1
International Textile Collection1

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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)7
books of hours5
breviaries1
consanguinity (canon law)1
edward ii, king of england, 1284-13271
edward iii, king of england, 1312-13771
england. political events. role of england. parliament, 13761
english poetry1
eschatology1
great britain1

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Aquileia1
Rome1

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Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor6
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)6
Catholic Church5
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)5
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)5
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)4
Huth, Henry (1815-1878)3
Baron Brotherton2
Bedford, Francis (1799-1883)2
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton2

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 364-02-25-367-08-24

Issuer/creator: Valens (364-78)

Place: Aquileia

Material: copper alloy


Archive Item

Iunii Iuuenalis aquinatis satyra prima

[ca. 1470-1490]

Decoration: Title and incipit words in rustic capitals in gold, blue and red. The 6-line incipit initial 'S' is in gold on green decorated ground. The text of the first page is presented as if written...

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[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]
Archive Item

[Breviarium ad Usum Parisiensem]

[ca. 1440-1460]

Decoration: 27 large arched miniatures, seven historiated 9-line initials, and several 1-4-line decorated initials and line-fillers throughout. Fine rinceaux border throughout the manuscript. Dr J. J....

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Archive Item

[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1440-1460]

Decoration: 22 full-page miniatures within arched compartments surrounded by full floral borders, and 22 historiated initials. The illuminations are probably by a French artist. Written in textualis...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Archive Item

[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 142-?]

Four gatherings of 12 (Calendar), 8, 8 and 8. Leaves missing after the first two gatherings (Calendar; Gospel Sequences and Obsecro te) and the last two gatherings (Penitential psalms; Penitential psa...

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[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 ...

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[Hours of Antoine de Crèvecœur]
Archive Item

[Hours of Antoine de Crèvecœur]

Antoine de Crèvecoeur; Hughes de Mazijnghem

[1450-1475]

Decoration: 38 large arched miniatures surrounded by framed borders in designs of intricate curving foliage and ivy leaves in pen and gold, enclosing strawberries and flowers in colour. Decorated init...

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Archive Sub-collection

Egyptian garments

1200 - 1400

A collection of five children's tunics, one waistcoat and two caps from the early Mameluke period.

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Prick of Conscience
Archive Item

Prick of Conscience

[ca. 1380-1420]

19th-century pagination, probably by T. C. Neale. Damp staining on several leaves. Initials: 2 to 3-line initials in red for beginnings of sections. Modern front flyleaves contain extensive 19th...

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[In epistolas canonicas]
Archive Item

[In epistolas canonicas]

Bede the Venerable, Saint (673-735)

[ca. 1100-1150]

Quires numbered at the end. Decoration: 7 large initials on decorated blue, or blue and green grounds, outlined and touched with red. Written in Continental Caroline Minuscule. Principal content...

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[The Anonimalle Chronicle]
Archive Item

[The Anonimalle Chronicle]

[ca. 1350-1400]

Decoration: 17-line initial in red and blue (f. 36r). 2-line initials, rubrics and paragraph marks in red, capitals touched in red, and marginal notes framed in red ink, throughout. Written in basta...

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[Greek Gospels]
Archive Collection

[Greek Gospels]

McLeish, Charles (1949-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

10th century

Manuscript in Greek Minuscule on parchment, containing the text of the Gospels, with lectionary divisions in margins. Imperfect: wanting numerous leaves and with some sections of the text supplied lat...

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