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Total number of records: 269

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Archives153
Books and printed items102
Coins7
Indexes6
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Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society132
Brotherton Collection53
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse9
Quaker Collection9
Coin Collection7
English Literature7
Incunabula7
Medieval Manuscripts4
Ripon Cathedral2

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judaism -- liturgy -- texts.5
prophecies4
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civilization3
english poetry3
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industrial arts3
manuscripts, hebrew -- 17th century -- texts.3

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Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)11
Charles I, King of England, 1600-164910
Charles King of England (1600-1649)10
Brothers, Richard, 1757-18249
Charles9
Gauden, John9
Gauden, John Bishop of Worcester (1605-1662)9
Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey (1751-1830)7
Porree, Jean Baptiste6
Porree, Jean Baptiste (1621-)6

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Archive Print piece

Cymbeline. I. iv. 21 - I. iv. 163

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (372)

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Cymbeline. I. iv. 163 - I. v. 87

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (373)

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Twelfth Night. III. i. 27 - III. i. 163

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (273)

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Henry the Fifth. III. vii. 163 - IV. i. 57

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (83)

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Henry the Fourth, Part One. II. iv. 18 - II. iv. 163

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (56)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 119-22

Issuer/creator: Hadrian (117-38)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive Object Item

bronze axehead

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Part of a bronze axehead including the blade.

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Archive Collection

DEEDS AND DOCUMENTS RELATING TO KIRKSTALL ABBEY

13th century-18th century

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Title: To the most renowned the President and the rest of the knights of the most

noble order of the Toast

Author: Settle, Elkanah

Attribution: E. Settle

Date(s): 1698 ?

Manuscript: Lt q 38

Contents: Poem praising the Knights of the Toast, and appealing to them, as a tribunal,

to condemn both the Rev. Jeremy Collier, for attacking contemporary

playwrights, and Henry Heveningham. Followed by a prose 'envoy' signed by

Settle.

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A grotesque making music (fol. 32r)
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A grotesque making music (fol. 32r)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a human-like grotesque with a bird's head, a lion's leg and tail wearing a blue jacket and a hat and holding up his hands, and a grotesque with a lion's lower body and ...

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