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Total number of records: 14

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Books and printed items6
Archives3
Coins2
Textiles2
Indexes1

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Quaker Collection3
Coin Collection2
International Textile Collection2
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Brotherton Collection1
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society1
Ripon Cathedral1

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SubjectCount
art objects2
zoological specimens2
apostasy1
architecture1
cabinetwork1
chinoiserie1
furniture design1
quaker church buildings1
quakers1
society of friends1

Count of Place

PlaceCount
United Kingdom2
Massachusetts1
Sisak1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)3
Bell, John (1745-1831)2
Hailstone, Edward (1818-1890)2
Hyde & Sons[?], Sleaford2
Lightfoot, John (1735-1788)2
Malcolm Gardner, London2
Portland Museum (Portland, England)2
Portland, Margaret Cavendish Holles Harley Bentinck, Duchess of, 1715-17852
Rylands, J[?] P2
Skinner and Co. (London, England)2

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 348-350

Issuer/creator: Constans I (333-50)

Place: Sisak

Material: copper alloy

Sampler
Textile

sampler

Hollis, Mary

1740

Sampler made by Mary Hollis, 1740. This is probably stitched by a child, as was originally part of a collection of school children's work. The sampler is worked in horizontal bands of alphabet, numb...

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Sampler
Textile

sampler

mid 18th-18th Century

Cross stitch sampler, embroidered with polychrome silks, featuring central motif of a castle with a female figure depicted inside, with a bird perched on the central turret. Detached motifs include fl...

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Title: [unknown]

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 16-- ?

Manuscript: Lt 31

Contents: Religious epigram, complaining that men live with no regard for death or the

prospect of hell

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Archive Item

Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Henry Sampson, Clapham, Surrey

16 Jul 1700

Regarding autographs, and Mr Woodcock's manuscript

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Archive File

Partition Deed

13 Apr 1618

Made between Abraham Farrer of Ayringden and Henry Sutclyffe of Sowerby; reciting that parties were jointly seized by copy of Court Roll of a fourth part of a close called Holling hey containing 10 ac...

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Archive Print Item

To the called of God who believes in the light of the Lambe. To be read in their assemblyes in the pure dread of the Lord

Fox, George the younger (1661)

1660

Caption title. Signed at end: G. Fox. Imprint from colophon.

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half crown
Coin

Denomination: half crown

Date(s): 1601

Issuer/creator: Elizabeth I of England

Material: silver alloy


Archive File

Photographs of pages from Pierpont Morgan Lib MS. 23

10th century

Two photographs of facing pages and one photograph of a single opening from a tenth-century gospel-book probably commissioned by Oswald, Archbishop of York 971-992, to replace the gospel-book commissi...

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Archive Print Item

Le guide du tapissier, de l'ʹebʹeniste, et de tous ceux qui travaillent en meubles; comme aussi celui des honnêtes-gens qui en font faire:... Le tout reprʹesentʹe en 200 planches proprement gravʹees; ... Par Thomas Chippendale (oversize)

Chippendale, Thomas (1718-1779); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)

1762

Published according to an act of Parliament 1753, 1759, 1760, 1761 1762 etc. Designed and drawn by Thomas Chippendale, engraved by T Miller, Hemerich, M Darly, C Lowe, I Taylor, B Clowes, W Foster, I...

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