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Total number of records: 162

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Books and printed items144
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Incunabula137
Brotherton Collection133
Medieval Manuscripts4
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3
Coin Collection2
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canon law5
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Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)129
Baron Brotherton79
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton79
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Sir Edward Allen Brotherton79
Koberger, Anton (1440-1513)15
Koberger, Anton12
Doring, Mathias (1400-1469)8
Antoninus Saint, Archbishop of Florence (1389-1459)7

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M. Tul. Ciceronis De officiis libri III. Commentariis Erasmi Roterodami, Philippi Melanchthonis, Viti Amerbachii, & Francesci Maturantii, tum disquisitionibus Caelii Calcagnini illustrati. Eiusdem, De senectute, De amicitia, Paradoxa, Somnium Scipionis, cum adnotationibus... [etc.]

Cicero, Marcus Tullius; Erasmus, Desiderius (1536); Melanchthon, Philipp (1497-1560); Amerbach, Vitus; Maturanzio, Francesco; Birck, Sixt (1500-1554); Calcagnini, Celio (1479-1541)

1578

Parts have individual title-pages; Sixt Birck's "Chronologia" and Cicero's "Cato major" have imprint of Theobaldus Paganus, 1556 (but apparently issued in this volume); "Paradoxa", "Laelius" and "Somn...

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Four medieval manuscript fragments

c. 800 - 1500

For separate medieval manuscript fragments, majority showing folding marks, suggesting that they were used to strengthen bindings of later books. The fragments have since been flattened.

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Grant of the guardianship of Peter Middleton, on his intended marriage to one of the daughters of Edward Stanley

21 Jun 1594

1 William Middleton of Stockeld, esquire 2 Edward Stanley of Winwick, Lancashire, esquire

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Ripon Cathedral Manuscript Fragments

11th-15th century

This collection comprises 65 numbered medieval manuscript fragments, mostly on vellum but some on paper, many in several parts. The majority are loose and housed in boxes. Others remain in situ in the...

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DEED RELATING TO GRIMSTON

nd [1195-1201]

1. William de Mala Palude, canon of York 2. William son of Herbert Property: land in Grimston' Witnesses: Simone decano, Hamone thesaurion, Adam de Torner archidiacono Ebor[acensi], Willelmo archid...

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Miscellany of Middle English religious verse and prose
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Miscellany of Middle English religious verse and prose

[ca. 1450s]

Decoration: 2 to 3-line initials in red with pen ornamentation in brown. Capitals touched in red. Catchwords in cartouches. Occasional pointing hand. Written in anglicana (main text) and anglicana f...

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De planctu ecclesie religiosi fratris Aluari Pelagij natione hÿspani iuriscanonici doctoris eximij ordinis sancti Francisci professione (f.[1]-[126])

Pelagius, Alvarus (1280?-1353); Zainer, Johannes; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno d[omi]ni millesimoq[ua]dringe[n]tesimoseptuagesimoquarto. die vero. xxvj. octobris. [26 October 1474]

Signatures: [a-i¹⁰ K-l⁶ m-n¹⁰ o⁴ A⁶ B-P¹⁰ Q⁸ R¹⁰ S⁸ T⁹ V-Z aa-bb¹⁰ cc-ff⁸ *⁸]. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on [400v] reads: Per honorabile[m] viru[m] ioha[n]nem ...

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De planctu ecclesie religiosi fratris Aluari Pelagij natione hÿspani iuriscanonici doctoris eximij ordinis sancti Francisci professione (f.[127]-end)

Pelagius, Alvarus (1280?-1353); Zainer, Johannes; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Anno d[omi]ni millesimoq[ua]dringe[n]tesimoseptuagesimoquarto. die vero. xxvj. octobris. [26 October 1474]

Signatures: [a-i¹⁰ K-l⁶ m-n¹⁰ o⁴ A⁶ B-P¹⁰ Q⁸ R¹⁰ S⁸ T⁹ V-Z aa-bb¹⁰ cc-ff⁸ *⁸]. Imprint from colophon. Colophon on [400v] reads: Per honorabile[m] viru[m] ioha[n]nem ...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

Clifton family

[late 14th century, possibly before 1389]

The original total of leaves is likely to have been 118, with the majority of the missing leaves likely to have contained illuminations and been cut out in post-medieval times. Decoration: Three 8 t...

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