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Total number of records: 648

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Indexes3
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Brotherton Collection427
Incunabula284
Medieval Manuscripts114
Ripon Cathedral66
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society12
Cookery Collection10
English Literature5
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse3
Coin Collection2
Feminist Archive North1

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saints54
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virgin mary20
books of hours19
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holy ghost (as dove)11
manuscripts, hebrew -- 15th century -- texts.11

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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)265
Baron Brotherton173
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton173
Lord Brotherton173
Sir Edward Allen Brotherton173
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton171
Catholic Church35
Koberger, Anton (1440-1513)24
Koberger, Anton16
Antoninus Saint, Archbishop of Florence (1389-1459)11

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Archive Item

Book of the Dead

1200BCE-850 BCE

Framed papyrus, labelled: "Papyrus No. 2. Book of the Dead, written for Jed-Khensu, who bears the title of "Priest (nab) of Amen, scribe of the temple of Amen and scribe of the temple of Mut". The s...

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Archive Item

Draft court book

1572-1582

[Former ref: Box 41]

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Book of Prayers
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[Beverley prayer book]

[ca. 1425]

Front flyleaves: [i-ii] modern vellum, i-iv paper, [vii-viii] modern vellum. Rear flyleaves are modern vellum. Catchwords for each quire are in scroll cartouches. Decoration: 3 full-page coats of ar...

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Bradfield Easter Book

1502-1517

Bradfield Easter Book 1502-1517. 72ff.

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Fountains Abbey Stock Book

c1480-1495

Comprises twelve annual stock accounts, eleven of which cover the period 1480-1490, and the twelfth, which is incomplete, appears to date between 1492 and 1495. Each section contains the annual accou...

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FOUNTAINS ABBEY LEASE BOOK

16th century

Collection of copies of leases and other legal documents relating to the Abbot and Convent of Fountains compiled by William Thirsk, Abbot. The documents are mostly of the time of Henry VII and Henry V...

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Fountains Abbey Steward's Book

[1527-1536]

Receipts for rents from tenants in Marton, Balderby, Skipton, Raynton, Ronwell, ?Parnwik, Holme, Sandhoton, Synderby, Sutton Holgrave, Latton, Melmorby, Aynderby, Rokesby, Newby super Wykse, Scabdenew...

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Sixe bookes of politickes or civil doctrine

Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606); Jones, Sir William (1566-1640)

1594

A translation of: Politicorum sive civilis doctrinæ libri sex. Pp. 42, 206, 207 are incorrectly numbered 40, 106 and 107 respectively.

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