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Total number of records: 72

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Books and printed items59
Archives11
Coins1
Indexes1

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Brotherton Collection44
English Literature42
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society7
Quaker Collection6
Medieval Manuscripts3
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse1
Coin Collection1
Cookery Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1
Incunabula1

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ballad operas4
operas4
society of friends3
english poetry2
greek language2
manuscripts, english (medieval and modern)2
books of hours1
cooking1
education1
greek literature1

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Great Britain1
Halifax (England)1
Rhode Island, Usa1
Sisak1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Centlivre, Susanna (1667?-1723)4
Higgins, John (1633-1667)4
O'Keeffe, John (1747-1833)3
Racine, Jean3
Racine, Jean (1639-1699)3
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)3
Bullock, Christopher (1690?-1724)2
Cibber, Colley (1671-1757)2
Dibdin, Charles (1745-1814)2
Handel, George Frideric2

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Coin

Denomination: follis

Date(s): 313-01-313-04

Issuer/creator: Constantine I (306-37)

Place: Sisak

Material: copper alloy

Title: Hymn to science

Author: Anonymous

Date(s): 174- or 175- ?

Manuscript: Lt 45

Contents: Invocation to science (and reason), praising it and requesting its assistance

in understanding all aspects of the universe and human life (except religion)

and in conducting his own

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Reasons why the people called Quakers do not pay tithes

Gough, John (1721-1791)

1797

Written by John Gough.

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John Collett Ryland's honorary MA degree certificate

6 Dec 1769

The degree parchment issued by Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA, conferring upon John Collett Ryland the honorary degree of MA.

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The institution of the Order of the Garter : a dramatick poem

West, Gilbert (1703-1756)

1742

Written by Gilbert West; cf. Nicoll, A. A hist. of Eng. drama, 1660-1900, 1952: v. 2, p. 364.

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The traytor : a tragedy; as it is acted at the new theatre in Little-Inn-Fields

Bullock, Christopher (1690?-1724); Shirley, James (1596-1666)

1718

Alteration of: The traytor / James Shirley.

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A journey to Bristol, or, The honest Welch-man : a farce of two acts

Hippisley, John (1748)

[1731?]

Publication date from Nicoll, A. A hist, of Eng. drama, 1660-1900, 1952: v. 2, p. 337.

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The gentleman-cully : a comedy. As it was acted at the Theatre Royal by his majesty's servants

Johnson, Charles (1679-1748)

1702

"As it was acted at the Theatre Royal by His Majesty's servants."

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