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Total number of records: 157

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	115
Archives	27
Coins	9
Indexes	5
Textiles	1

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	55
English Literature	14
Coin Collection	9
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	8
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	8
Quaker Collection	2
Ripon Cathedral	2
International Textile Collection	1
Medieval Manuscripts	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
law	9
law reports, digests, etc	9
tariff	6
cecil roth collection -- insertions -- research notes.	4
english poetry	4
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.	4
manuscripts, hebrew -- 18th century -- texts.	4
customs administration	3
autograph manuscripts.	2
judaism -- france -- comtat venaissin -- liturgy -- texts.	2

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Great Britain	8
Rome	8
Comtat Venaissin (France)	2
Italy	2
Provence (France)	2
Ancona (Italy)	1
Aquileia	1
Carpentras (France)	1
Cavaillon (France)	1
Codignola (Italy)	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Great Britain	15
Cleopatra, Queen of Egypt, D. 30 B.C	12
La Calprenede, Gaultier De Coste Seigneur De (1663)	12
Mariamne, Consort of Herod I, King of Judea, Ca. 57-Ca. 29 B.C	12
Ptolemy Caesar, King of Egypt, 47-30 B.C	12
Cicero, Marcus Tullius	10
Fabricius, Franz (1527-1573)	10
Gruterus, Janus (1560-1627)	10
Gulielmus, Janus (1555-1584)	10
Sterne, Laurence (1713-1768)	10

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From earliest	1
From 300	9
From 1200	2
From 1300	1
From 1400	1
From 1500	6
From 1600	68
From 1700	69

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	1
Up to 399	9
Up to 1299	2
Up to 1399	1
Up to 1499	1
Up to 1599	3
Up to 1699	69
Up to 1799	71

Textile

mummy cloth

c. 2500 BCE

Fragment of fine, mid brown, plain woven fabric. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Khnum-Nakht. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated in 1907. Inscriptions in the t...

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The watcher: or, The stone cut out of the mountains without hands, striking at the feet of the image, whose head is gold, and brest of silver, and thighs of brass, and legs of iron, and feet part iron and part clay... or, A discovery of the ground and end of all forms, professions, sects and opinions

Parnell, James (1636-1656)

[1655]

Several errors in pagination.

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Bargain and sale

1641

1. Dame Mary Bolles 2. Cotton Horne and another

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Letter to Ralph Thoresby from Miss A Fenton, Hunslet, Yorkshire

3 Jul 1715

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Grant of a toft, and lands and meadow in the fields

[13th century]

1 John Querderay 2 Robert his son Property: a toft lying between the toft of William, John's son, and a little tower; land which he had purchased of John de Bramehop, lying on Chyritrebanke; all...

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