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Total number of records: 118

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Books and printed items83
Archives25
Coins7
Indexes3

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Brotherton Collection50
English Literature19
Incunabula11
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society10
Coin Collection7
Quaker Collection7
Ripon Cathedral6
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse4
Medieval Manuscripts4
Cookery Collection1

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theology12
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arithmetic2
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botany2
latin poetry, medieval and modern2
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)2
optics2
administration of estates1
aesthetics1

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Rome2
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Florence (Italy)1
Ilici1
Italy1
Milan (Italy)1

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People and organisationsCount
Barrow, Isaac (1630-1677)12
Church of England12
Hill, Abraham (1635-1721)12
Tillotson, John (1630-1694)12
Dryden, John (1631-1700)8
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)6
Baron Brotherton5
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton5
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton5
Lord Brotherton5

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Floral border and initial (fol. 198v)
Archive Piece

Floral border and initial (fol. 198v)

[ca. 1480-1500]

4-line initial in blue, gold, with white penwork decoration, and infilled with a pink flower. On the left, a column border decorated with flowers and leaves extending into the top and bottom margins. ...

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Birds, butterflies and flowers (fol. 198r)
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Birds, butterflies and flowers (fol. 198r)

[ca. 1500-1520]

The border is decorated with a female capercaillie (?), columbines (also buds), a strawberry flower, lily of the valley, a small tortoiseshell butterfly, a small waterbird and acanthus leaves. 7-line ...

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Archive Print piece

Henry the Sixth, Part Three. i. I. 198 - i. II. 37

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (149)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 161

Issuer/creator: Marcus Aurelius (161-80)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive File

5 books

1633-1732

1. Bradfield chief rent. (1655). 2. Bradfield chief rent. (1732). 3. Bradfield chief rent. (1653). 4. Bradfield chief rent. (c. 1655?). 5. Bradfield chief rent. (1633).

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Archive Print Item

Sermao pregado no Auto da fé, que se celebrou em a cidade de Evora em 28 de Feuereiro de anno de 1649

Cesar, Diogo; Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

[1649]

Information taken from manuscript note by Dr. Roth on the end-paper.

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Archive Collection

DEEDS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS

18th century

Relating to Askrigg, Bagby, Burton Salmon, Byram, Cottam, North Cawton, Dunsley, Eastrington, Fulford, Gargrove, Gristhorpe, Horton in Ribblesdale, Hunsingore, Kilham, Kingthorpe, Knottingley, Melso...

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Archive File

Untitled manuscript on law

1002-1594

The volume is a commentary on Islamic law, the traditions and duties of Muslims etcetera. Author: محمد ابن ملا عراك. muḥammad ʾbnu mullā ʿarāk

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Title: Ballad on the Cheshire plott 1694

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 1694 (title)

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Satirical song on the failure, in 1694, of the prosecutions of Jacobites in

Lancashire and Cheshire

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