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Total number of records: 1295
Count of Record type
Top 10: Collection group
| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 438 |
| English Literature | 209 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 158 |
| Quaker Collection | 82 |
| Ripon Cathedral | 50 |
| Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society | 18 |
| Leeds General Cemetery | 5 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 4 |
| Business Archives | 3 |
| International Textile Collection | 3 |
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Top 10: Place
Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Society of Friends | 157 |
| Fox, George (1624-1691) | 97 |
| Great Britain | 75 |
| Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) | 70 |
| Burrough, Edward (1634-1662) | 52 |
| Great Britain. Parliament | 48 |
| Rubbi, Andrea | 47 |
| Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788) | 45 |
| Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie | 45 |
| Daubenton, Louis Jean Marie (1716-1799) | 45 |
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Title: The Bed of Reverend Mr William Willets - an Humble Faithful Minister - in Dudley, Who at the Age of 36 Fell Asleep, March the 9th 1699/1700
Author: Sparrow, Joseph (?)
Date(s): 1700?
Manuscript: Lt 98
Contents: Epitaph on the clergyman William Willets, concerning the consequences of human vanity and reality of divine judgement
On the shipwreck of Edith Lovell and Joseph Sparrow
1782
The full title is 'On the shipwreck of Edith Lovell and Joseph Sparrow who perished in their passage from Cork to Bristol addressed to her sister Ann by her friend M. S.'. Lovell was a Minister in th...
mummy cloth
c. 2500 BCE
Fragment of coarse, cream/light brown, plain woven fabric. This is a wrapping from the mummy of Nekht-Ankh. The tomb of Khnum-Nakht and Nekht-Ankh in Der Rifeh, was excavated in 1907. Inscriptions...
A warning to all teachers of children, which are called school-masters and school-mistresses, and to parents which doth send their children to be taught by them; that all school-masters and school-mistresses may train up children in the fear of God
Fox, George (1624-1691)
1657
Issued with caption title.
A bird, flowers and a man (fol. 81r)
[ca.1480-1500]
The border is decorated with a bird, pinks, strawberries, thistles, speedwells, acanthus leaves and a man dressed in clothes for labour, with a hat, a hood, an apron and boots. 5-line foliate initial ...
Letter from William Medley requesting the return of a share transfer deed
08 Jul 1893
See also earlier letter [MS 421/1/3/9/35]
Sketch of horses and figures
c. 1830
Undated pencil sketches of horses, standing and seated figures and studies of facial expressions by Edward Petre Novello.
untitled oil sketch [three figures in an interior]
c. 1830
Undated oil sketch by Edward Petre Novello, of three figures standing in a rustic interior. The figure on the left appears to we wearing clothing of a higher social class, with an elaborate feathered ...