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Brotherton Collection6
Medieval Manuscripts5
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
Coin Collection2
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Quaker Collection1

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baptists1
fruits1
holy ghost (as dove)1
society of friends1

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Alaesa1
Rome1

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Anonymous1
Gaius Vibius Varus1
Smith, William (1672)1

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Coin

Denomination: AE24

Date(s): c. 340 BCE

Place: Alaesa

Material: copper alloy

Holy Spirit (fol. 75v)
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Holy Spirit (fol. 75v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Initial 'U' inhabited with Holy Spirit, depicted as a dove with a halo. From the initial two hairline tendrils spring that hold gold balls and poppyheads.

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Decorated initials (fol. 81r)
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Decorated initials (fol. 81r)

[1450-1475]

Decorated initials 'I' and 'A' in blue and red patterned with white, decorated with trefoils, on burnished gold grounds. Black hairline tendrils spring from the initials, holding gold balls, pine cone...

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 42 BCE

Issuer/creator: Gaius Vibius Varus

Place: Rome

Material: silver

Initial 'I' and 'L' (fol. 40v)
Archive Piece

Initial 'I' and 'L' (fol. 40v)

[ca. 1490 and ca. 1500-1510]

Initial 'I' made up of two branches entwined and with small springs of leaves, in blue on a green ground. Initial 'L' in gold leaf, on a red and blue ground, infilled with white pen-ornament.

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Archive Item

Counterpart lease for 40 years of the reversion of Stubham Hall

31 Aug 1592

1 William Middelton of Stockeld, esquire 2 Christopher Middelton, his younger brother Property: reversion of the mansion, and of closes called Stone Flatt, Lockwood Closes, Bridge Flatt, Yate Fl...

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Floral border (fol. 151v)
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Floral border (fol. 151v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Rinceau border with cranberries, blueberries, acanthus leaves and speedwells in the upper and lower margin. A column border in the middle of the page is composed of a bar-frame of gold and blue/pink v...

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Surrender of right to Lord's Close within Stubham Park

8 Apr 1598

1 Isabel, late wife of Gamaliell Draxe of Stubham, deceased, and Christopher Middelton of Stubham, gentleman 2 William Middelton of Stockeld, esquire Release of all claim to the Close and spring...

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Floral border (fol. 124v)
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Floral border (fol. 124v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

The 'Subvenite sancti Dei' begins with a 3-line initial 'S' in blue on a gold ground. The border in the upper and lower margins is in designs of little coloured flowers and leaves among burnished gold...

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Grant of a toft with croft and arable land in Stockeld

30 Apr 1317

1 John de Stokkeld, lord of Stockeld 2 Sir Richard de Deighton ['Dychton'], parson of the Deighton Property: the toft and croft which Elias [the reaper, 'falcator'] formerly held, 30a arable lyi...

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Sale of wood

25 Feb 1393

1) Sir Michael de la Pole Kt. 2) Thomas de Stanley, Henry Wyman, Robert de Talkan and William Irby, citizens of York Sale by 1) to 2) of all the crops of 2 parcels of wood called Wodeintak and ladyp...

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