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Total number of records: 38

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Coins4
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Brotherton Collection13
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society9
Incunabula6
Coin Collection4
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fabulous animals2
hebrew poetry -- texts.1
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.1
judaism -- roman rite -- liturgy -- texts.1
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manuscripts, hebrew -- 15th century -- texts.1
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Quintus Septimius Florens Tertullianus3
Tertullian (160-230)3
Baron Brotherton2
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton2
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)2
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton2
Lord Brotherton2
Sir Edward Allen Brotherton2
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)2
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor2

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Flowers and leaves (fol. 160r)
Archive Piece

Flowers and leaves (fol. 160r)

[ca. 1500-1520]

The border is decorated with acanthus leaves and two unidentified flowers. 7-line foliate initial 'S'.

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St. Catherine and St. Barbara (fol. 160r)
Archive Piece

St. Catherine and St. Barbara (fol. 160r)

[1450-1475]

St. Catherine of Alexandria is depicted holding a wheel and a sword, the instruments of her martyrdom, while standing on one of her executioners. St. Barbara is depicted holding a miniature tower.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 118

Issuer/creator: Hadrian (117-38)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive Object Item

glass vessel

c.1000 - 500 BCE

This glass vessel or vase has a flat base, a small domed body and a long neck. There is some iridescent on the neck. Labelled on the original box as "Phoenican glass, Probably dug up at Tyre. Date be...

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Monsters and grotesques (fol. 30v)
Archive Piece

Monsters and grotesques (fol. 30v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a grotesque with a woman's head wearing a head-dress and with a lion's lower body walking with a stick (tau cross), and a wyvern-like grotesque with goat's horns.

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Apostle preaching (fol. 453r)
Archive Piece

Apostle preaching (fol. 453r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'P' encloses the scene of a nimbed figure (Christ?) talking to a group of listeners. The initial is further decorated with a small grotesque head. An ornamental initial 'L' is infilled with fo...

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Archive Print piece

B4v

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

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Archive Print piece

H6v

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

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Archive Print piece

ii5v

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

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Archive Print piece

I6v

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

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Archive Item

Lease for lives with warranty

20 Feb 1367

1. Aveline de Aclum 2. Thomas son of Sir William de Aclum, Knight; George and Henry de Aclum brothers of Thomas Aveline has leased to Thomas, George and Henry a messuage in Walmegate, York which A...

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