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Total number of records: 29

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Coins4
Textiles1

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Brotherton Collection10
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society9
Incunabula6
Medieval Manuscripts6
Coin Collection4
Ripon Cathedral3
International Textile Collection1

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saints4
angels1
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birds1
events from resurrection to pentecost1
fables1
fabulous animals1
greek literature, hellenistic1
holy ghost (as dove)1
insects1

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Ancyra1
Egypt1
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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
Aesop1
Arsenios1
Arsenios Archbishop of Monemvasia (1465-1535)1
Avienus, Rufus Festus1

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Pentecost (fol. 134r)
Archive Piece

Pentecost (fol. 134r)

[ca. 1440-1460]

The dove of the Holy Ghost descends upon the Virgin Mary, seated in the centre, and the Apostles, assembled around her. The Virgin has a book on her lap. The dove is surrounded by a golden circle of l...

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St. Peter (fol. 134v)
Archive Piece

St. Peter (fol. 134v)

[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]

The border shows St. Peter holding a book and a key. Inside the initial Christ also holds a book. A pink and a pansy also decorate the border.

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St. Claude (fol. 134r)
Archive Piece

St. Claude (fol. 134r)

[ca. 1490]

St. Claude is shown clad in a bishop's mitre and holding a processional cross.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 103-11

Issuer/creator: Trajan (98-117)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

St Mark (fol. 17v)
Archive Piece

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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Archive Item

Release

16 Jan 1405

1. Isabel Bakster of Carleton 2. John Daunay John has given to Isabel 20s. in full payment of the debt owed by John Gillotson to Isabel; and of all the debt owed by John to Isabel; John his heir a...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Rectangular fragment of fine, cream coloured, plain woven fabric. The fragment has an end fringe of 2cm. long warp threads. Adjacent to the fringe are weft stripes in the sequence: 3 blue, 1 white, ...

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Solomon enthroned (fol. 284v)
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Solomon enthroned (fol. 284v)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'D' encloses a scene of King Solomon enthroned, holding a fleur-de-lis. The border includes a hybrid of a bird with an animal head wearing a hood.

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Archive Print piece

[*]7v

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

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Archive Print piece

G1v

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

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Archive Print piece

2gg8v

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

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