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Total number of records: 225

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Objects2
Coins1
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International Textile Collection139
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society61
Brotherton Collection8
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History5
Incunabula4
Quaker Collection4
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Coin Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
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furniture design4
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furniture making3
decoration and ornament2
society of friends2
architecture1
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cant1
chinoiserie1

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Egypt139
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)7
Delatour, Louis Francois (1727-1807)3
Fox, George the Younger (1661)3
Roubo M (1739-1791)3
Baron Brotherton2
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton2
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)2
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton2
Lord Brotherton2
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Archive File

Bond in £2000

14 Nov 1653

John Blackburne to Gyles Blackburn for repayment of £1000 14 Nov1653 English parchment seal broken

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Archive File

Mortgage for £2000

3 Feb 1776

From Michael Wainhouse to John Cookson secured on messuages &c. near Well Head, lands and cottages in Halifax.

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Archive Item

Bond in the sum of £2,000

16 Nov 1600

1 Anne Constable of North Duffeild, widow 2 Henry Griffithe of Annesburton and others

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Archive Item

Bond in the sum of £2,000

23 Jan 1632

1 Peter Middelton of Stockeld and William Hungate of Saxton 2 Richard Fermor of Somerton, Oxfordshire

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Bond in the sum of £2,000

1650

1 Edward Tophan of Agglethorpe 2 John Goodricke of Ribston, William Ingleby of Ripley, John Mallory of Studley and John Troutbecke of York

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Archive Print Item

The history of imbanking and draining of divers fens and marshes : both in foreign parts and in this kingdom, and of the improvements thereby

Dugdale, Sir William (1605-1686); Cole, Charles Nalson (1723-1804)

1772

Plates by W. Hollar. Includes index.

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 334-335

Issuer/creator: Rome

Place: Sisak

Material: copper alloy

Title: A monumental inscription

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Religious poem, tombstone inscription or epitaph on the inevitability of

death and Christianity's promise of eternal happiness in heaven

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of coarse plain woven cloth. Light brown colour with darker brown stripes formed by double weft threads which are not at standard intervals. Very creased. This is a wrapping from the mumm...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of cream coloured, fine, plain woven cloth. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated in 1907. Inscriptions in th...

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mummy cloth
Textile

mummy cloth

early 11th-mid 7th Century BCE

Fragment of fine, mid brown, plain woven fabric.

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