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Total number of records: 408

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Books and printed items314
Archives76
Indexes10
Coins5
Textiles3

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection57
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society37
English Literature25
Incunabula11
Quaker Collection10
Letters Database7
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse6
Coin Collection5
International Textile Collection3
Ripon Cathedral3

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law79
conveyancing17
law reports, digests, etc14
civil procedure11
forms (law)10
land tenure10
real property10
copyhold6
equity6
pleas of the crown6

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Great Britain7
Rome4
China2
Iceland2
Italy2
Leeds (England)2
Addingham; Yorkshire West Riding1
Almondbury; Yorkshire West Riding1
Amsterdam (Netherlands)1
Antioch, Syria1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Blackstone, Sir William (1723-1780)42
Great Britain22
Christian, Edward19
Christian, Edward (1823)19
Horace14
Great Britain. Court of Queen'S Bench10
Coke, Sir Edward (1552-1634)9
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)8
Great Britain. Court of Common Pleas8
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)8

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Archive Print piece

The Winter's Tale. III. ii. 202 - III. iii. 73

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (288)

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Archive Print piece

Henry the Fifth. I. ii. 202 - II. Pro. 17

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (72)

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Troilus and Cressida. III. ii. 72 - III. ii. 202

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: -

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Archive Print piece

King Lear. II. iv. 89 - II. iv. 202

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (294)

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Archive Print piece

A Midsummer Night's Dream. V. i. 76 - V. i. 202

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (160)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 141-61

Issuer/creator: Antoninus Pius (138-61)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive File

Leeds Petition, 1692-3, concerning the cloth trade, signed by William Calverley, mayor, and 176 others

Calverley, William

c.1692

Comprises 'the humble petition of the inhabitants within the town and parish of Leeds to the honourable the knights, citizens and burgesses in Parliament assembled'.

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upper panel of bed curtain
Textile

upper panel of bed curtain

19th century

This curtain panel shows a complete picture painted in a similar manner to traditional Chinese scroll painting, using Chinese watercolours and ink on a white silk satin base. The picture is composed ...

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Old painted leather sample
Textile

painted leather sample

c. 1600

Described on an original backing card as an 'old painted leather sample', this piece has a large tooled and painted design of gold and red flowers with black outlines against a red background. The su...

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fan case
Textile

fan case

19th Century

This fan case is made with dark blue silk satin with blue knotted floral embroidery. On one side there is a butterfly, and on the other side is a growing peony. There is a ruyi cloud shape form at th...

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Archive Judaica File

Taḳanot bukh le-vet ha-keneset ḥadashah di-ḳ.ḳ Pensans. תקנת בוך לבית הכנסת חדשה דק׳׳ק פענסאנס. [Record book of the Penzance Hebrew Congregation (Cornwall) concerning the construction of the new Synagogue, 1807–1829].

[1807–1829]

Hebrew title supplied from upper cover recto. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 202. Variant titles: Pinḳas ḳehilat ...

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