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Total number of records: 180

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Books and printed items170
Archives10

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English Literature60
Brotherton Collection3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society2
Medieval Manuscripts1
Ripon Cathedral1

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cabala -- early works to 1800.2
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes.2
freedom of religion2
jewish religious poetry, hebrew -- italy -- texts.2
manuscripts, hebrew -- 18th century -- texts.2
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Padova (Italy)1
Pesaro (Italy)1

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Society of Friends40
Burrough, Edward (1634-1662)39
Fox, George (1624-1691)28
Howgill, Francis (1618-1669)18
Burrough, Edward6
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Burrough, Edward, 1634-16623
Fox, George3
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Hampstead Heath : A comedy. As it was acted at the Theatre Royal in Drury Lane

Baker, Thomas (fl. 1700-1709)

1706

By Thomas Baker. An alteration of the author's "An act at Oxford". Errors in paging: p. 57, 60, 61 numbered 47, 50, 51 respectively.

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Receipts

6th Jan 1720

Receipt dated 6th Jan 1720 for 51 15s. Receipt dated 3rd June 1720 for money borrowed 60. Signed by M[ary] Copley.

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Artis auriferae, quam chemiam vocant, volumina duo, quae continent Turbam philosophorum aliosque antiquiss. auctores : Accessit noviter volumen tertium (v.2)

1610

Analyzed in part. For full contents see J. Ferguson. Bibliotheca chemica. Glasgow (1906) vol. 1, p. 51-52.

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Bond referring to grant of Kilnsey mill and premises

4 Aug 1598

1. James Rayner of Kilnsey, and William Whittetars and William Costentyne of Skyre Thorns in Threshfield 2. Richard Layland of Winterborn in Craven Consideration: intended marriage between James ...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 1404-1425]

Decoration: 16 large (5-8-line) initials in blue and pink with white tracery, infilled with flowers, on gold grounds, and within full borders, of gold and vine bars decorated with acanthus leaves and ...

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Anonymous miscellany of short Latin compositions on various literary themes and philosophical maxims

c.1575

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35 36 37 38 39 40 41 42 43 44 45 46 47 48 49 50 51 52 5...

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Brut Chronicle
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Brut Chronicle

Wolhouse, Anthony (1533-1587); Speed, W; Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

After 1430

Manuscript in Middle English in several Anglicana bookhands on parchment containing the text of the Brut Chronicle (Prose Brut). Contemporary scribal additions in Anglicana bookhand correcting omissio...

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The poets of Great Britain : in sixty-one double volumes (v.1)

[1777-1787]

Compilation attributed to John Bell; cf. NUC, pre-1956, v.44, p.652. Apparently first published in Edinburgh, printed by John Bell, 1777-1792. Title from engraved title-pages found in most volumes. ...

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The poets of Great Britain : in sixty-one double volumes (v.3)

[1777-1787]

Compilation attributed to John Bell; cf. NUC, pre-1956, v.44, p.652. Apparently first published in Edinburgh, printed by John Bell, 1777-1792. Title from engraved title-pages found in most volumes. ...

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The poets of Great Britain : in sixty-one double volumes (v.4)

[1777-1787]

Compilation attributed to John Bell; cf. NUC, pre-1956, v.44, p.652. Apparently first published in Edinburgh, printed by John Bell, 1777-1792. Title from engraved title-pages found in most volumes. ...

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The poets of Great Britain : in sixty-one double volumes (v.5)

[1777-1787]

Compilation attributed to John Bell; cf. NUC, pre-1956, v.44, p.652. Apparently first published in Edinburgh, printed by John Bell, 1777-1792. Title from engraved title-pages found in most volumes. ...

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