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Total number of records: 220

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Books and printed items145
Archives56
Indexes9
Coins7
Textiles2
People and organisations1

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Brotherton Collection50
Quaker Collection22
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society19
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society16
English Literature13
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse10
Incunabula10
John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History8
Coin Collection7
Cookery Collection5

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building5
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decoration and ornament5
gilding5
metal-work5
authors, latin4
judaism -- liturgy -- texts.3
society of friends3
anabaptists2
benefices, ecclesiastical2

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Great Britain11
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Greece7
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Italy2
Livorno (Italy)2
Africa1
Cavaillon (France)1
Comtat Venaissin (France)1

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People and organisationsCount
Chetwood, Knightly (1650-1720)12
Dryden, John (1631-1700)12
Virgil12
Collyer, Joseph7
Collyer, Joseph (1776)7
Goldsmith, Oliver7
Goldsmith, Oliver (1730?-1774)7
Plutarch7
Butler, Samuel (1612-1680)6
Alembert, Jean Le Rond D' (1717-1783)5

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Archive Print piece

The Tempest. IV. i. 226 - V. i. 71

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (16)

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Archive Print piece

Romeo and Juliet. I. i. 102 - I. i. 226

Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)

1623

First Folio page number: (54)

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 147-75

Issuer/creator: Marcus Aurelius (161-80)

Place: Rome

Material: silver


Archive File

Minutes of meetings of the Midland Institute of Mining Engineers, with associated material

1887-1889

Comprises secretary's reports of meetings, 27 July 1887 to 25 September 1888, and 19 February 1889, together with a memoir of John Brown and draft contents and index for vol.10 of the 'Transactions of...

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jacket
Textile

jacket

19th Century

This item is made from a total of 23 separate pieces of embroidered cloth. This could indicate that the jacket represents a secondary use for fabric previously used for another purpose. It has an op...

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religious embroidered fragment
Textile

religious embroidered fragment

c. 1800

Fragments of religious silk embroidery on white ground stitched through to a brown linen lining. The silk has worn away between the stitching. Symmetrical design is of two angels (or cherubs) facing...

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Archive File

Legal papers, accounts, poetry

No date

Miscellaneous: includes legal papers, (suit of Worrall v. Wrightson), accounts, poetry. 70ff.

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Copy of case and Mr Fry’s opinion thereon

2 June 1874

Great Northern Railway — Bradford & Thornton Railway. 2 June 1874. ‘Copy of case and Mr Fry’s opinion thereon’, i.e. case whether subscribers to the local line were eligible for the exchange w...

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