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Archives21
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Coins8
Textiles1

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Brotherton Collection16
Medieval Manuscripts8
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society8
Coin Collection7
Incunabula7
Ripon Cathedral6
International Textile Collection1

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fabulous animals4
manuscripts, hebrew -- 15th century -- texts.3
saints3
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.2
mahzorim -- texts.2
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)2
bible. pentateuch. hebrew -- texts.1
birds1
books of hours1
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- invitations.1

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Great Habton; Kirby Misperton; Yorkshire North Riding1
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Norwich (England)1
Partricia1

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Baron Brotherton3
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton3
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)3
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton3
Lord Brotherton3
Sir Edward Allen Brotherton3
Augustus2
Trajan (98-117)2
Auguis, Pierre Rene1
Auguis, Pierre Rene (1786-1846)1

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Coat of arms (fol. 131v)
Archive Piece

Coat of arms (fol. 131v)

[ca. 1425]

Coat of arms: two white wyverns on a black chevron against a white background (as on f. 1v). The shield is on a light blue background surrounded by a wreath in red and green.

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St. Michael (fol. 131v)
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St. Michael (fol. 131v)

[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]

St. Michael killing a mythological monster with a narrow cross-shaped sword.

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St. Stephen (fol. 131r)
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St. Stephen (fol. 131r)

[ca. 1490]

St. Stephen, shown holding a stone (?).

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St. Christopher (fol. 131v)
Archive Piece

St. Christopher (fol. 131v)

[ca. 1490]

St. Christopher is shown carrying the Christ Child and holding a staff.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 103-11

Issuer/creator: Trajan (98-117)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Coin

Denomination: Roman coins

Date(s): c.6-132

Material: copper

Man and mythical bird (fol. 16r)
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Man and mythical bird (fol. 16r)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a man with a wooden club and a bird-like grotesque with lion's legs and a beak in the shape of a trumpet.

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Archive Item

Lease for years with warranty

[1347?]

1. William (Rabere?) of Snayth [Snaith] and John his son 2. Thomas (son of Adam clerk) of the same William demises to Thomas a selion of land in the west field of Snayth between the land of Thomas...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Rectangular fragment of fine, light-mid brown, plain woven fabric. This fragment has an end fringe of 4cm. long warp threads.

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Solomon speaking to a prophet (fol. 264v)
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Solomon speaking to a prophet (fol. 264v)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'V' encloses a scene of King Solomon, crowned, speaking to a prophet. The border has a bird and a head of a grotesque or an animal.

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Archive Print piece

[*]6r

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

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Archive Print piece

F8r

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

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