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Total number of records: 1552

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Books and printed items1471
Archives49
Indexes29
People and organisations2
Textiles1

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Brotherton Collection269
English Literature83
Incunabula49
Cookery Collection26
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse24
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society21
Medieval Manuscripts16
Ripon Cathedral16
Letters Database6
Quaker Collection4

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french language44
marteau, pierre du (fictitious printer)20
political science13
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law11
criticism10
literature10
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reformation8

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Great Britain140
France67
Europe24
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Charles I, King of England, 1600-164968
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)46
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton34
Baron Brotherton33
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton33
Lord Brotherton33
Sir Edward Allen Brotherton33
Catholic Church29
Charles II, King of England, 1630-168526
Great Britain22

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A French-English dictionary

Cotgrave, Randle; Howell, James (1594?-1666)

1650

Indexed in: Wing C6374.

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A French-English dictionary

Cotgrave, Randle; Howell, James (1594?-1666); Sherwood, Robert (1632-1680)

1673

Dictionaire Anglois and François... = A Dictionary English and French ... London, 1672, is by Robert Sherwood, with special title-page.

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French cookery book
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French cookery book

16--

Two pages of French verse, followed by 15 pages of recipes apparently in unrhymed verse

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A satyr against the French

Taylor, Randal (fl. 1664-1700?)

1691

Indexed in: Wing (CD-ROM, 1996),

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A dictionarie of the French and English tongues

Cotgrave, Randle; Sherwood, Robert (1632-1680)

1632

"Dictionaire, anglois et françois, pour l'utilité de tous ceux, qui sont desireux de deux langues. A dictionarie English and French; compiled for the commoditie of all such as are desirous of both t...

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A dictionarie of the French and English tongues

Cotgrave, Randle

1611

First edition, Starnes p. 5.

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A dictionarie of the French and English tongues

Cotgrave, Randle

1611

First edition, Starnes p. 5.

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Title: A sonnet translated out of French

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 1698 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Lighthearted satire on Eve as an example of female inconstancy

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The French King's memorial to the Pope·

Louis King of France (1638-1715); France. Sovereign (1643-1715 : Louis XIV)

1688

First leaf and last leaf are blank. Half-title: Lettre du roy, a Monsieur le Cardinal D'Estrees. Ecrite à Versailles le 6. Septembre 1688. The French king's letter to Monsieur the Cardinal D'Estree...

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Part of Dv Bartas, English and French, and in his owne kinde of verse, so neare the French Englished, as may teach an English-man French, or a French-man English... With the commentary of S.G. S

Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste seigneur (1544-1590); Lisle, William (1579?-1637); Goulart, Simon (1543-1628)

M.DC.XXV. [1625]

The French text, with an English translation, of Day 2 of: Du Bartas, Guillaume de Salluste. La seconde sepmaine. S.G. S. = Simon Goulart de Senlis. In verse. Numerous sections with French and E...

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