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Quaker Collection3
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Coin Collection1
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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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responsa5

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Cecil Betsalel Roth168
Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)168
בצלאל ססיל רות168
רות, בצלאל168
Manasseh Ben Israel (1604-1657)7
Buxtorf, Johann (1564-1629)5
Jesus Christ5
Ha-Rambam4
Jehiel Ben Joseph, of Paris, -12864
Karo, Joseph Ben Ephraim, 1488-15754

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 319-319

Issuer/creator: Constantine I (306-37)

Place: Sisak

Material: copper alloy


Archive Item

Copy of Vulcan's Curse by Ben Jonson

c. 1640

'An Execration against Vulcan for burning his Papers'

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Archive Print Item

The character of a disbanded courtier. : Dedicated to the author of that famous speech, call'd, The speech of a noble peer

Person of quality

1682

Caption title. Imprint from colophon. Satire on Antony Ashley Cooper, 1st earl of Shaftesbury. Considerably expanded from the first edition (2 pages) of 1681.

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Archive Print Item

The general history of the Quakers : containing the lives, tenents, sufferings, tryals, speeches and letters of all the most eminent Quakers, both men and women : from the first rise of that sect, down to this present time : collected from manuscripts, &c., a work never attempted before in English

Croese, Gerardus (1642-1710); Keith, George (1639?-1716)

1696

The remaining part of the second book of this general history of the Quakers has special half-title and separate paging. "Our antient testimony renewed... London, 1695," appended. Errors in paging...

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Key Texts Box 01

1968 -2004

Key texts from the Women's Liberation Movement. (pamphlets and papers; selected by FAN trustees in 2022) 1968 Notes from the first year June 1968 New York 1968 Draft Manifesto for Socialist Women...

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Archive Judaica Item

[Medieval Spanish document, dated 20 (?) January 1455].

1455

"Medieval Spanish document, dated 20 (?) January 1455" One Hebrew line in black ink probably written by Roth on verso. The remaining creases of regular and horizontal folds as well as the nine sma...

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'Epistle to the Lady Margaret, Countess of Cumberland', by Samuel Daniel [Hatton Manuscript], with letter from Margaret Clifford to Lord North

Daniel, Samuel (1562-1619)

c.1600

Folio manuscript, originally folded in two, presumed to be in the hand of Samuel Daniel, with occasional revisions. Daniel had been tutor to Margaret Clifford's daughter Anne. Written in a single hand...

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Meʻah Berakhot : ke-minhag Sefaradim

Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

1649

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