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Total number of records: 109

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Books and printed items60
Archives32
Indexes13
Textiles2
Coins1
People and organisations1

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Quaker Collection12
Brotherton Collection11
Janina and Zygmunt Bauman10
Letters Database6
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society6
Liddle Collection4
Leeds Russian Archive3
English Literature2
Herbert Read Collection2
International Textile Collection2

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clergy3
redemption3
anatomy, comparative2
antiquities2
cathedrals2
chemistry2
christian life2
church architecture2
church buildings2
death2

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England3
Great Britain3
Angleterre1
Constantinople1
Europe1
Horsforth1
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Leeds1
Peru1
Putumayo River1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Religious Tract Society (Great Britain)22
Society of Friends6
Aldam, Thomas (1649-1723)3
Congregational Union of England and Wales3
Gurney, Joseph John (1788-1847)3
Hanbury, Benjamin3
Aldam, Thomas (1660)2
Aldam, Thomas, D. 16602
Bacon, Thomas (1755)2
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)2

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Textile

726 to 894 [loom book]

Blackburn, Tolson and Co.

1928-1929

Hardback with black covers and red spine. Brown label and black text on spine. Contains handwritten data relating to woven cloth production ordered by the type of cloth produced and by date. Also s...

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A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands
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A book of culinary and medicinal recipes in various hands

17--

Original pagination to the end of the text only; pp.81-2 missing and a hiatus in the text. Thumb index, ff.1-5, extended from front fly-leaf; ff.54 to end, blank. Dated 1769 on f.35r. Signatures: 'Mar...

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Coin

Denomination: forty nummi

Date(s): 498-518

Issuer/creator: Anastasius (491-518)

Place: Constantinople

Material: copper alloy


Archive Print Item

Piano sonata in G major, op.78 (D.894) : facsimile of the autograph manuscript in the British Library Add. MS 36738

Schubert, Franz (1797-1828); British Library

1980

Facsim. of: 1st ed., 1827.

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embroidered motif
Textile

embroidered motif

before 1920

A hand embroidered butterfly on a yellow silk background which was probably a self coloured striped fabric with satin weave alternating with repp.

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Archive Item

Name: Walker, Robert

Reference: Carlton Hill A1

Meeting: Knaresborough MM 1721-53

Place: Keighley

Pages: 35, 59, 95, 116, 148, 158, 162, 235D;rep to MM 4, 98, 109, 111, 115, 119, 123, 127, 146, 148, 150, 158, 162, 164; rep to QM 164


Archive Print Item

Advices and rules agreed to by the Yearly Meeting of Friends in Ireland

Society of Friends. Ireland Yearly Meeting

1811

Smith I, 757.

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Archive Print Item

The question, whether a Jew born within the British Dominions was, before the making the late act of Parliament, a person capable by law to purchase and hold lands to him and his heirs, fairly stated and considered

Webb, Philip Carteret (1700-1770); Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)

1753

"Appendix containing copies of public records relating to the Jews": p. 1-27 (2d group).

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