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Books and printed items47
Archives30
Coins6
Indexes6
Objects1

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Brotherton Collection37
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society16
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse7
English Literature7
Incunabula7
Ripon Cathedral7
Coin Collection6
Medieval Manuscripts6
Quaker Collection2

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philosophy, ancient8
classical antiquities7
political science7
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.3
history, ancient2
judaism -- roman rite -- liturgy -- texts.2
manuscripts, hebrew -- 14th century -- texts.2
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)2
siddurim -- texts.2
alchemy1

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Antioch2
Arles1
Greece1
Scotland1
Trier1
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Gaius Cornelius Tacitus7
Gaius Plinius Caecilius Secundus7
Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606)7
Lipsius, Justus, 1547-16067
Livy7
Pliny the Younger7
Publius Tacitus7
Tacitus, Cornelius7
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)6
Baron Brotherton2

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Christ before Pilate (fol. 162v)
Archive Piece

Christ before Pilate (fol. 162v)

[ca. 1440-1460]

Christ is brought before Pontius Pilate, the governor of Judaea, to be condemned to crucifixion.

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Archive Print piece

Measure for Measure. IV. ii. 162 - IV. iii. 68

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (77)

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Archive Print piece

Henry the Fifth. III. vii. 27 - III. vii. 162

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (82)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 119-22

Issuer/creator: Hadrian (117-38)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive Object Item

stone axehead

No date

A stone axehead with a rounded butt and notched blade. The stone is dark in colour and had indentations on both sides.

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Title: To Mr Manwaring Secretary to the most noble Knights of the Toast

Author: Anonymous

Attribution: Jo. Hains

Date(s): 1698

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Comic satire, attributed to Joseph Haines, on the dispute between Rev. Jeremy

Collier and the playwrights of the day, in particular Elkanah Settle; in the

form of an appeal to the Knights of the Toast, addressed to their secretary

Arthur Mainwaring

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Two men (fol. 31v)
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Two men (fol. 31v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a man with a sword, and a man with a wooden walking stick.

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Coat of arms (fol. 1v)
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Coat of arms (fol. 1v)

[ca. 1425]

A coat of arms halving the arms on the previous page (a double-headed eagle in gold and silver on a blue background) with a design of two wyverns on a black chevron against a white background, with, a...

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