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Total number of records: 152

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items116
Archives26
Coins5
Indexes5

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection64
English Literature19
Incunabula12
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society12
Quaker Collection6
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse5
Coin Collection5
Letters Database4
Ripon Cathedral4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections3

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
overtures (chamber orchestra)7
apparitions2
dreams2
geography, ancient2
jacobite rebellion, 1745-17462
maps, early2
municipal ownership2
occultism2
philosophy2
alchemy1

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Rome4
Great Britain3
Hungary3
Vienna (Austria)3
Altona (Germany)1
Douai (France)1
Gomersal; Birstall; Yorkshire West Riding1
Hamburg (Germany)1
London1
New Zealand1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Genet, Edme-Jacques (1781)12
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)8
Baron Brotherton7
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton7
Colonel Edward Allen Brotherton7
Handel, George Frideric (1685-1759)7
Lord Brotherton7
Sir Edward Allen Brotherton7
Swift, Jonathan (1667-1745)6
Lipsius, Justus (1547-1606)5

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From 180034

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 49 BCE

Issuer/creator: Manius Acilius Glabrio

Place: Rome

Material: silver


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Il luminario de'ciechi: operetta diretta all' universale del giudaismo

Gazzoli, Giacomo Maria; Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

1797

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Archive Collection

DEEDS AND OTHER DOCUMENTS RELATING TO TAYLOR FAMILY AND PROPERTY IN GOMERSAL

1690-1829

Includes 48 titled deeds belong to and relating to property of John Taylor of Fomersal, merchant. Including various wills of family members.

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Archive Collection

VISITATION OF YORKSHIRE BY R GLOVER

1584-1585

Comprising the arms of Yorkshire families in trick. Indexed.

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Archive File

Building plan B.

1850-1890

[Appears to be for the land off the Halifax road]

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Archive File

‘Bradford Piece Halls- bill

1852

bill to authorise the improvement and better management and the eventual leases of sale of the piece halls n the town of Bradford . . . and to incorparate the proprietors thereof.’ 1852.

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Title: To my freind Mr Charles Hoskins upon borrowing Mr Wallers poems

Author: Hall, Henry, the elder

Attribution: Mr Henry Hall

Date(s): 169- ?

Manuscript: Lt 6

Contents: In praise of Edmund Waller and John Dryden as the greatest modern English

poets

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A tender salutation in gospel love, written principally for the use of his relations

Colley, Thomas (1742-1812)

1794

Indexed in: Smith I, 442.

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State of the case of several of the people called Quakers, imprisoned in York Castle for non-payment of tithes

Wormall, John

[1797]

Signed on p. 3: John Wormall [and seven others]. On p.[4]: Case of several Friends, imprisoned in York Castle... [etc.]. These Quakers were imprisoned on complaint of George Markham, vickar of Car...

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Rivalx Abbey, Yorkshire. Engraved by J Greig from an original drawing by Mr J Hornsey.

1801

Published April 1st 1801 by J Walker, no. 16, Rosomans Street, London. The itinerant: Yorkshire.

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A letter to Friends of Great Britain

Alexander, Samuel (1749-1824)

1820

Smith I, 11.

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