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Total number of records: 90

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Books and printed items64
Archives17
Coins6
Indexes2
Textiles1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection33
Quaker Collection18
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society10
English Literature8
Incunabula8
Coin Collection6
Medieval Manuscripts3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2
Ripon Cathedral2
International Textile Collection1

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society of friends9
quaker church buildings3
quakers3
churches, quaker2
meditations2
theology, doctrinal2
bible. pentateuch. hebrew -- commentaries -- early works to 1800.1
books of hours1
cabala -- early works to 1800.1
cabala -- liturgy -- texts.1

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Great Britain3
Italy2
Rome2
Abdera1
America1
Antioch1
Arles (Kingdom)1
Athens1
Cracow (Poland)1
Dhamar (Yemen)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Naylor, James (1617?-1660)8
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)6
Waite, Mary5
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)3
Abbadie, Jacques (1654-1727)2
Acciaiuoli, Donato (1429-1478)2
Barbaro, Francesco (1390-1454)2
Bayle, Pierre, 1647-17062
Bruni, Leonardo (1369-1444)2
Campano, Giannantonio Bishop (1429-1477)2

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Archive Print piece

Antony and Cleopatra. V. ii. 111 - V. ii. 224

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (366)

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Archive Print piece

Antony and Cleopatra. V. ii. 224 - V. ii. 336

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (367)

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Archive Print piece

A Midsummer Night's Dream. II. i. 224 - II. ii. 74

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (150)

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denarius
Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 139-41

Issuer/creator: Antoninus Pius (138-61)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

rose motif fragment
Textile

rose motif fragment

late 16th-17th Century

cut out embroidered applique of a rose motif in greens, white, blue and reds with blue, gold edged, ribbon on yellow silk ground. Detailed satin embroidery shows veining of leaves.

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Archive File

Inventories

1686

Inventories. (1686, 1709. etc.). 31. ff.

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Archive Print Item

Archive Collection

Title: On Jane Mayo the fatt woman of Newant

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Satire mainly on the physical features of the fat woman Jane Mayo (of Newent,

south-east of Hereford), but also making allusions to William III's war with

France

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Ascension (fol. 174v)
Archive Piece

Ascension (fol. 174v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

The apostles are gathered in a semi-circle as Christ ascends to Heaven. Only his feet (showing the wounds), the hem of his cloak, and his footprints (or shadows?) on the rock are seen as he disappears...

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Archive Item

Quitclaim

20 May 1503

1. John Beilby 2. John Neleson, alderman of York

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