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Total number of records: 163

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Archives96
Books and printed items56
Coins7
Indexes3
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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society86
Brotherton Collection41
Coin Collection7
Incunabula7
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4
Medieval Manuscripts4
English Literature3
Quaker Collection3
Ripon Cathedral2

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judaism -- liturgy -- texts.3
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voyages and travels2
air1
animals1
auto-da-fe sermons1
autograph manuscripts.1
books of hours1
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- printed texts.1

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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)11
Charles I, King of England, 1600-16499
Charles King of England (1600-1649)9
Charles8
Gauden, John8
Gauden, John Bishop of Worcester (1605-1662)8
Porree, Jean Baptiste6
Porree, Jean Baptiste (1621-)6
Porree, Jonas6
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)3

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Archive Print piece

Cymbeline. I. iv. 21 - I. iv. 163

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (372)

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Cymbeline. I. iv. 163 - I. v. 87

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (373)

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Twelfth Night. III. i. 27 - III. i. 163

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (273)

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Henry the Fifth. III. vii. 163 - IV. i. 57

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (83)

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Henry the Fourth, Part One. II. iv. 18 - II. iv. 163

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (56)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 119-22

Issuer/creator: Hadrian (117-38)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive Object Item

bronze axehead

No date

Part of a bronze axehead including the blade.

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Title: To the most renowned the President and the rest of the knights of the most

noble order of the Toast

Author: Settle, Elkanah

Attribution: E. Settle

Date(s): 1698 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Poem praising the Knights of the Toast, and appealing to them, as a tribunal,

to condemn both the Rev. Jeremy Collier, for attacking contemporary

playwrights, and Henry Heveningham. Followed by a prose 'envoy' signed by

Settle.

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A grotesque making music (fol. 32r)
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A grotesque making music (fol. 32r)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a human-like grotesque with a bird's head, a lion's leg and tail wearing a blue jacket and a hat and holding up his hands, and a grotesque with a lion's lower body and ...

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Archive Item

Gift with warranty

[13th century?]

1. Hugh de Thouleston 2. Monks of Kirkstall Gift by Hugh to God, St. Mary and the Monks of Kirkstall in pure and perpetual alms, and for the salvation of the souls of Hugh, his wife Cecily, his an...

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Archive Item

Archive Item

Easement

1 Dec 1699

1. Nicholas Wilson of Wolfet county York 2. John Holdsworth of Losco grange county York gent. For the consideration of a piece of land 47 or 48 yards in length and 8 or 9 in breadth in the corner ...

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