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Total number of records: 97

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Books and printed items90
Archives4
Indexes2
Coins1

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Brotherton Collection19
English Literature19
Quaker Collection4
Herbert Read Collection2
Incunabula2
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Coin Collection1
Cookery Collection1

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botany4
english fiction4
gothic fiction (literary genre)4
operas4
natural history3
bluebeard (legendary character)2
constitutional law2
constitutions2
political ethics2
political science2

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Sumatra (Indonesia)5
Rome2
Alps, French (France)1
Cheshire (England)1
Germany1
Great Yarmouth (England)1
India1
Karnataka (India)1
King'S Lynn (England)1
Norfolk (England)1

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People and organisationsCount
Godwin, William (1756-1836)18
Colman, George (1762-1836)16
Colman, George6
Marsden, William (1754-1836)6
Arnold, Samuel (1740-1802)5
Faden, William (1750?-1836)5
Godwin, William5
Blavatnik Honresfield Library4
Faden, William4
Jussieu, Antoine Laurent De (1748-1836)4

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 364-03-28-367-08-24

Issuer/creator: Valens (364-78)

Place: Rome

Material: copper alloy

Title: [unknown]

Author: Shakespeare, William

Date(s): 1604

Manuscript: Lt 48

Contents: Assertion that a ruler must practise the highest standards of virtuous

personal behaviour and self-examination; extract from Shakespeare's play

"Measure for Measure", III.2.

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Sender: Gillies, John, 1747-1836

Recipient: Melville, Henry Dundas, Viscount, 1742-1811

Letters: 1

Date(s): 29 Jun 1788

Location: BC MS Misc. Letters 1 Melville 1

Note: Asking Viscount Melville for some reward for his publications. A collection of autograph letters, notes, and miscellaneous manuscripts sent to Lord Melville, 1755-1848.


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Antonii Alsopi Aedis Christi olim alumni odarum libri duo

Alsop, Anthony (1726); Bernard, Sir Francis (1712-1779)

MDCCLII. [1752]

Edited by Sir Francis Bernard. Engraved vignette on title page, signed: C. Grignion sculp. The final two leaves contain 'Monitum lectori'

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Dryden's Ode on St. Cecilia's day

Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759); Dryden, John (1631-1700)

[1783]

For solo voice, chorus, [violin] and figured bass. Caption title. Plate nos. are those of The new musical magazine.

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Della influenza del ghetto nello stato

D'Arco, Giambattista Gherardo (1739-1791)

1782

Published anonymously. Written by Giambattista Gherardo D'Arco. Cf. Diz. biog. degli Italiani, III, p. 791.

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Tipping's charity papers

1772-1784

Including copies of will of William Tipping of Gisburn, yeoman, May 1772; extract from and copy will of Thomas Halstead of Gisburn, yeoman, who left interest from £20 towards better education and sch...

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Lucij annei flori epitoma idest abbreviato de cursu ac statu romanorum a fundacione urbis per romulum usque ad augustum. Continentes 4 libros incipit feli

Florus, Lucius Annæus; Alexander van Roes; Jordanus Osnaburgensis; Hoernen, Arnold ter; Bedford, Francis (1799-1883); Huth, Henry (1815-1878); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[about 1474]

Signatures: [a-c¹⁰]. Imprint from ISTC. The Memoriale of Alexander incorporates the work of Jordanus Osnaburgensis, De imperio romano. The version given here, with title De commendacione romani...

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