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Total number of records: 187
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| Collection group | Count |
|---|---|
| Brotherton Collection | 40 |
| Quaker Collection | 25 |
| English Literature | 13 |
| Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society | 13 |
| Ripon Cathedral | 9 |
| Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse | 3 |
| Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections | 3 |
| Incunabula | 3 |
| John Evan Bedford Library of Furniture History | 3 |
| Art and Antique Market | 2 |
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Top 10: People and organisations
| People and organisations | Count |
|---|---|
| Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) | 12 |
| Guilmard, DéSiré (1810-1889) | 9 |
| Furstenberg Princely Court Household [Library], Donaueschingen, Germany | 8 |
| Godel, Vilhelm (1864-1941) | 8 |
| Scott, Sir Walter (1771-1832) | 6 |
| Archibald Constable & Co | 4 |
| Catholic Church | 4 |
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| Lavater, Johann Caspar (1741-1801) | 4 |
| Orleans, Pierre Joseph D' (1641-1698) | 4 |
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King John. III. iv. 1 - III. iv. 122
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)
1623
First Folio page number: (12)
Letter from Ernest Briggs, Aberford, Leeds; to Edith (Madge) and Margery Jackson.
7 or 9 July 1893
[Writes as "Mr. Little Thing"]. Thanking them for an invitation to tea on the occasions of their respective birthdays. MS, signed. 1f.
index tally
c.1500
An oval stone tally with a hole through the top part. Described as "Late Babylonian, about 6th century B.C., referring to gold. " Described in a note as from Nebuchadnezzar's Library, but now not tho...
Headingley, Far [Far Headingley], Grove Lane
Bingley, Godfrey (1842-1927)
11/Aug/1887
Photograph taken near Leeds, Yorkshire
Letter: 8 September 1866
8 September 1866
8 September 1866. Eliot Vale, Blackheath, London, S E To Edith Thompson About songs, and Vergil's /Eneid. 3 Pages.
Some useful observations and advices taken from the mouth of John Alderson, deceased: with a short account of him, during the time of his last illness. To which is added, a testimony from the Monthly-meeting of Sedbergh in Westmorland, concerning him
Alderson, John (1721-1764); Society of Friends. Sedbergh Monthly Meeting
1765
Indexed in: Smith I, 7.
Calendar: November (fol. 11v)
[ca. 142-?]
The scenes in the historiated border are: St. Elizabeth (?) holding a book and a candle; St Clement I holding an anchor; St Catherine of Alexandria holding a spiked wheel and a palm branch; and St. An...
Green & Pickslay billhead
Green & Pickslay
20 May 1816
Simple billhead of Greene & Pickslay for an order of patent garden scythes and other items for Mr Bennet. Trader details written on reverse.
Observations on the coasts of Hampshire, Sussex, and Kent, relative chiefly to picturesque beauty : made in the summer of the year 1774
Gilpin, William (1724-1804)
1804
Indexed in: BLC 125:185.