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Total number of records: 1155

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Books and printed items1140
Archives15

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection183
Ripon Cathedral75
English Literature42
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society29
Incunabula23
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society8
Cookery Collection3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections2
Quaker Collection2
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
church history60
natural history48
history, ancient42
philosophy23
zoology22
botany20
physics15
inquisition13
bibliography12
english drama12

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Rome73
Great Britain52
France36
Greece26
Spain23
Sicily (Italy)17
South America17
Corsica (France)15
Sardinia (Italy)15
Byzantine Empire14

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)53
Gaius Plinius Secundus46
Pliny the Elder46
Curtius Rufus, Quintus26
Polybius24
Leti, Gregorio (1630-1701)23
Alexander, the Great, 356-323 B.C22
Cicero, Marcus Tullius22
Bekker, Immanuel (1785-1871)21
Fabricius, Franz (1527-1573)20

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Up to 1899365

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Thucydidis Historia

Thucydides

1873

Advertisements on both sides of both end-papers and both inside covers.

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Thucydidis Historiae

Thucydides; Jones, Henry Stuart (1867-1939)

1898

Interleaved with blank pages throughout.

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Lombardica historia

Jacobus de Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)

1485

By Jacobus de Voragine.

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Historia insectorum

Ray, John (1627-1705); Willughby, Francis (1635-1676); Ray, John (1627-1705); Lister, Martin (1638?-1712); Royal Society (Great Britain)

1710

"Prolegomena de insectis" (p. iii-xv) was originally published under title: Methodus insectorum: seu Insecta in methodum aliqualem digesta: / a Joanne Raio,... Londini : Apud Sam. Smith & Benj. Walfor...

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Verldsliteraturens historia (v.1)

Ahnfelt, Arvid Wolfgang Nathanael (1845-1890)

1875-1876

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Verldsliteraturens historia (v.2)

Ahnfelt, Arvid Wolfgang Nathanael (1845-1890)

1875-1876

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Historia ecclesiastica
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Historia ecclesiastica

1479

Place of publication: Mantua, Italy Typology: Roman Initials: One; hand-drawn Illustrations: None. Layout: Text fully aligned; initial occurs midway down left-hand side. Catchwords appear in...

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Historia ecclesiastica
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Historia ecclesiastica

1479

Place of publication: Mantua, Italy Typology: Roman Initials: Three; hand-drawn Illustrations: None. Layout: Text in one column. Each new chapter begins with initial. Catchwords in bottom ri...

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Thucydidis Historiae

Thucydides; Jones, Henry Stuart (1867-1939)

1898

Interleaved with blank pages throughout.

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Historia ecclesiastica
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Historia ecclesiastica

1476

Place of publication: Rome, Italy Typology: Roman Initials: None. Illustrations: None. Layout: Text fully justified.

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Historia ecclesiastica
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Historia ecclesiastica

1476

Place of publication: Rome, Italy Typology: Roman Initials: None, although space has been left. Illustrations: None. Layout: Text fully justified. Subtitles introduce new sections.

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[Historia ecclesiastica]

Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea (260-340); Rufinus of Aquileia (345-410); Schall, Johann (1475-1479); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

Quom datus est finis. referebat Iulius annos Mille quater centum septuaginta nouem. [not before 15 July 1479]

Imprint from colophon. Colophon in verse on leaf [171v] reads: Explicit liber ecclesiastic hystorie. Transtulit Ausonias istud Rufinus ad aures Eusebii clarum Caesariensis opus. Schallus Ioannes cel...

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