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Total number of records: 178

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Record typeCount
Books and printed items68
Archives67
Indexes38
Coins3
Textiles2

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Collection groupCount
Letters Database35
Brotherton Collection23
Quaker Collection14
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman11
Leeds Russian Archive9
Liddle Collection9
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society8
Herbert Read Collection5
University Archive4
Coin Collection3

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latin language15
greek language12
letters5
architecture3
architecture interieure3
decoration interieure3
culture2
dissenters, religious2
literary forgeries and mystifications2
manners and customs2

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Great Britain5
Iceland2
Cleckheaton, United Kingdom1
Crete1
England1
Germany1
Holy Roman Empire1
Japan1
Poland1
Ravenna1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Peers, Edgar Allison27
Barker, Edmund Henry (1788-1839)12
Estienne, Henri (1531-1598)12
Valpy, Abraham John (1787-1854)12
Smith, Frederick (1757-1823)10
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)5
Baker, Alfred Thomas3
Neufforge, Jean Francois De (1714-1791)3
Neuman, Erik (1883-)3
Peers, Edgar Allison (1891-1952)3

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Archive File

Miscellaneous correspondence, press cuttings and papers of Edgar Allison Peers

Peers, Edgar Allison (1891-1952)

c.1914-c.1950

1. Letters to Peers (items 1-27). 2. Other letters (items 28-31). 3. Reviews by Peers (items 32-56). 4. Reviews by others of work by Peers (items 57-82). 5. Miscellaneous papers (items 83-89).

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 46-5 BCE

Issuer/creator: Iulius Caesar

Place: Spain

Material: silver

stencil
Textile

stencil

early 19th-mid 20th Century

This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing of fabric, depicts pine trees. Pine is symbolic of longevity. The style of this stencil copies resist dye (shibori) techniques including kumo (cobweb) s...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted geometric design with blue rectangles on a red abstract background

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Archive Print Item

A history of the people called Quakers. From their first rise to the present time. Compiled from authentic records, and from the writings of that people (v.3)

Gough, John (1721-1791)

1789-1790

Volume 3: Title-page dated 1789, but on p. [527] is an "Advertisement", dated 4mo. 29th 1790, referring to a proposed fourth volume. Volume 4: Title-page reads, "... In four volumes." Imprint states "...

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Ḳol rinah ṿi-yeshuʻah :...k.k. Livorno

Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

1810

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Sender: Peel, James

Recipient: Clodd, Edward

Letters: 5

Date(s): 28 Mar [1904]; 4 n.d.

Location: BC Clodd

Title: Spoke at the anniversary meeting of Westminster scholars 1730. [Latin

epigraph]

Author: Fitzgerald, Thomas

Date(s): 1730 (title)

Manuscript: Lt 5

Contents: Panegyric of the age of Elizabeth I as a glorious period for religion, the

arts and sciences, still influencing English life; particular praise of

Francis Bacon

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