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Total number of records: 107

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Books and printed items65
Archives37
Coins3
Objects1
People and organisations1

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Brotherton Collection58
Incunabula45
Medieval Manuscripts13
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society12
Ripon Cathedral10
Coin Collection3
Feminist Archive North1

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saints8
animals3
fabulous animals3
latin language3
canon law2
german language2
judaism -- italy -- liturgy -- texts -- early works to 1800.2
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.2
judaism -- roman rite -- liturgy -- texts.2
judgments (canon law)2

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Asia1
Central Europe1
Great Britain1
Luka U Verusice (Czech Republic)1
Lyons1
Rome1
Thessaloniki1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)44
Baron Brotherton36
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton36
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton36
Lord Brotherton36
Sir Edward Allen Brotherton36
Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo12
Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)12
Lipsius, Martinus12
Cypressus, Georgius Petrus7

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Baruch writing (fol. 334v)
Archive Piece

Baruch writing (fol. 334v)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'H' encloses the scene of the prophet Baruch writing at a lectern, holding a quill and a quill knife. An initial 'L' is decorated with a hybrid of an animal and foliage, and a hybrid of a bird...

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Cleric writing (fol. 408r)
Archive Piece

Cleric writing (fol. 408r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'L' encloses a scene of a tonsured cleric writing at a lectern.

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Notes and copies of writings relating to Malham lands

1580-1581

File of copies and papers, probably gathered together by Josias Lambert of Calton, relating to the title to land at Smearbottoms and elsewhere in Malham, leased to him by his father John Lambert, and ...

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Miscellany notebook, containing extracts from Latin writings, mainly classical, notes on rhetoric and grammar, and translations from Aristotle

15--

Contents: (1) Notes on rhetoric and Latin grammar; (2) Quotations from classical authors, summaries of works of Aristotle, etc., namely: f.4, 'Eloquentia nihil aliud nisi dicendi prudentia', etc; f.13...

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Archive Print Item

Regimen sanitatis Magnini Mediolanensis medici famosissimi Attrebatensi episcopo directum feliciter incipit

Mayno de' Mayneri (1368); Arnaldus de Villanova (1311)

1486

An adaptation of the writings of Arnaldus de Villanova.

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 326-328

Issuer/creator: Constantine II (317-37)

Place: Thessaloniki

Material: copper alloy


Archive Item

Court of William Crewer

[1399-1413]

Held by feoffes on behalf of William Crewer. Cawton. Reign of Henry IV. Names of tenants and jurors. Offences (Writing very faint and partly indecipherable).

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St. Mark, the Evangelist (fol. 8v)
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St. Mark, the Evangelist (fol. 8v)

[1450-1475]

St Mark the Evangelist writes on a scroll, while his symbol, the lion, holds an ink pot.

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Bargain and sale of part of the manor of Ilkley

8 Mar 1563

1 Henry Sutthill of North Deighton, esquire 2 John Myddillton of Stockld, esquire With covenant to deliver up writings and evidences relating to his title

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St Mark (fol. 17v)
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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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St. Luke, the Evangelist (fol. 4v)
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St. Luke, the Evangelist (fol. 4v)

[1450-1475]

St. Luke the Evangelist is seated writing on a scroll, while his symbol, the ox, holds an ink pot.

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St. Matthew, the Evangelist (fol. 6v)
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St. Matthew, the Evangelist (fol. 6v)

[1450-1475]

St. Matthew the Evangelist is seated writing on a scroll, while his symbol, the angel, holds an ink pot.

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