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Books and printed items92
Archives36
Indexes7
Coins4
Textiles1

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Brotherton Collection44
Quaker Collection18
English Literature11
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society9
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse5
Incunabula5
Letters Database5
Coin Collection4
Art and Antique Market3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3

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american literature3
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autograph manuscripts.2
commonplace books -- specimens.2
hebrew letters -- texts.2
letter books -- specimens.2
abbeys1
atlases, british1
biography1

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Italy, Northern2
Africa, West1
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Asia1
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Baedeker, Karl (1801-1859)5
Karl Baedeker (Firm)5
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)5
Bevan, Joseph Gurney (1753-1814)3
Bevan, Joseph Gurney, 1753-18143
Bevan, Rebecca3
Coxe, William (1747-1828)3
Forster, Josiah (1782-1870)3
Gibbon, Charles3
Gibbon, Charles (1843-1890)3

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Meeting at the Golden Gate (fol. 262r)
Archive Piece

Meeting at the Golden Gate (fol. 262r)

[ca. 1440-1460]

St Anna and St Joachim are seen embracing at the Golden Gate, after an angel had appeared to St Anna announcing she was to give birth to the Virgin Mary.

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Archive Print piece

The Taming of the Shrew. II. i. 143 - II. i. 262

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (216)

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Archive Print piece

King Lear. V. iii. 262 - V. iii. 326

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (309)

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Coin

Denomination: triens

Date(s): 169-58 BCE

Place: Rome

Material: copper alloy

shawl
Textile

shawl

Late 17th century

Very finely twill woven, natural coloured, shawl with a narrow decorative band of a geometric floral patterns edging each long side edge. The same band design is worked width wise to edge the wider fl...

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Archive Judaica File

Archive Collection

QUITCLAIM AND APPRENTICESHIP INDENTURE

1586-1741

Quitclaim of a cottage in Spalding Moor (1586)

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Archive File

Midland Railway- notice

1874

‘Notice to owners, lessees and occupiers, to the trustees of the Thornton Free Grammar School, viz. William Foster*. Session 1874.

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Archive Item

Title: On the thrift of the H---s of C------ns

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt q 5

Contents: Lighthearted complaint about the multitude of taxes imposed by the House of

Commons

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Headingley, house, carriage drive
Archive Item

Headingley, house, carriage drive

Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)

20/Feb/1888

Photograph taken near Leeds, Yorkshire

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