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Books and printed items58
Archives15
Coins10
Textiles6
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Brotherton Collection28
Quaker Collection20
Coin Collection10
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society9
English Literature6
Incunabula6
International Textile Collection6
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse2
Medieval Manuscripts2
Ripon Cathedral2

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society of friends7
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persecution2
quaker church buildings2
recipes2

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Egypt6
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India1

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Bayly, William (1675)8
Naylor, James (1617?-1660)7
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)6
Penn, William (1644-1718)4
Bingley, William (1651-1715)2
Boot, Arnold De2
Boot, Arnold De (1606-1653)2
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)2
Bugg, Francis, 1640-1724?2
Decentius (351-53)2

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Jonah and the whale (fol. 217v)
Archive Piece

Jonah and the whale (fol. 217v)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'S' encloses the scene of Jonah being thrown to the whale by two men in a boat. The other initial 'S' has Jonah coming out of the whale, and God raising his hand in blessing while holding the ...

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Archive Print piece

King John. I. i. 89 - I. i. 217

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (2)

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Archive Print piece

Titus Andronicus. III. i. 96 - III. i. 217

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (41)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 168

Issuer/creator: Marcus Aurelius (161-80)

Place: Rome

Material: silver

Title: On Tom Broads picture

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: On the changeable nature of Tom Broad of Hereford

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Archive Print Item
cloth fragment
Textile

cloth fragment

c. 4400 BCE

Cloth fragment from mastaba (tomb) 2050 at Tarkhan, excavated by Petrie. Plain woven with one edge turned under and slip stitched with a single linen thread, into position. The turning appears to be ...

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Adoration of the Magi (fol. 140r)
Archive Piece

Adoration of the Magi (fol. 140r)

[ca. 1440-1460]

The miniature depicts the three Magi, represented as kings, approaching the Virgin and Child, and offering gold, frankincense and myrrh. The faces of the Virgin, Child, and the kneeling king (Caspar) ...

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Grant

25 Mar 1446

1. Richard Carnaby of Carnaby on Waldam 2. William Jowkyn of York

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A just censure of Francis Bugg's address to the Parliament against the Quakers

Penn, William (1644-1718)

1699

"Published in response to... [Bugg's] Some reasons humbly proposed to the ... Parliament why the Quaker's principles and practices should be examined, and censured or suppressed ... (London, 1699)"--B...

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cloth fragment
Textile

cloth fragment

c. 4400 BCE

Mummy cloth fragment from mastaba (tomb) 2050 at Tarkhan, excavated by Petrie.

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