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Quaker Collection107
Brotherton Collection24
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman20
Coin Collection15
Leeds Russian Archive11
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society11
Liddle Collection9
University Archive8
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Rigge, Ambrose (1635?-1705)8
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)4
Gaius Vibius Varus4
Lucius Mussidius Longus4
Cecil Betsalel Roth3
Lucius Livineius Regulus3
Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)3
בצלאל ססיל רות3
רות, בצלאל3
Beccadelli, Lodovico (1502-1572)2

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St. Paul (fol. 494r)
Archive Piece

St. Paul (fol. 494r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'P' shows St. Paul seated, holding a book. The ornamental initial 'T' is infilled with foliage.

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St. Paul (fol. 494v)
Archive Piece

St. Paul (fol. 494v)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'P' depicts St. Paul holding a book. The ornamental initial 'P' is infilled with foliage and a small animal head.

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Coin

Denomination: denarius

Date(s): 46-5 BCE

Issuer/creator: Gnaeus Magnus; Marcus Poblicius

Place: Spain

Material: silver

stencil
Textile

stencil

early 19th-mid 20th Century

This katagami stencil, used in resist dyeing of fabric, has a repeating pattern of curving bamboo (take) stems and leaves. Bamboo are symbolic of perseverance - bending and resisting strong winds' ...

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Design
Textile

Design

Marchini, Guido (1929-2008)

1950-2008

Painted conversational design with blue cartoon mice wearing blue dresses and holding red teapots, on a blue and yellow checkerboard background

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Name: Kidd, Benjamin

Reference: Carlton Hill A1

Meeting: Knaresborough MM 1721-53

Place: Rawdon

Pages: 77, 85, 93-4, 100, 107, 113, 116-8; rep to MM 99, 106, 109, 113; rep to QM 105, 115


Archive Print Item

Piety promoted, in a collection of dying sayings of divers of the people called Quakers : with some account of their services, sufferings and virtuous lives

Bell, John (1681-1761)

1740

Advertisements for "Books printed and sold at the Bible in George-Yard, Lombard-street", [6] pp. at end.

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Archive Print Item

Archive Print Item

Seder le-Yamim Noraʼim ke-minhag ḳ.ḳ. Ḳarpinṭrats :... ṿe-hu seder tefilot (v.1)

Monṭil, Avraham; Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

499 [i.e. 1738 or 1739]

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