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Total number of records: 249

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Books and printed items236
Archives13

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English Literature48
Brotherton Collection42
Ripon Cathedral6
Quaker Collection6
Herbert Read Collection4
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1

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ethics249
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philosophy of nature10
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Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper Earl of (1671-1713)21
Mandeville, Bernard (1670-1733)11
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626)10
Fittler, James (1758-1835)10
Cicero, Marcus Tullius10
Paley, William (1743-1805)9
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor (1772-1834)9
Dymond, Jonathan (1796-1828)9
Ferri, Giovanni Conte DI San Constant (1755-1830)8
Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)7

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ضياء الانوار على مذهب الائمة الاطهار. ḍyāʾul-ʾanwar ʿala maḏhabi-l ʾaʾimmati-l ʾaṭhār

16th century

The volume is a discussion of jurisprudence issues, marriage, divorce and usury etc. Author: احمد بن إسحاق بن إبراهيم الحسنيً الحسينيً(نظام الدين الشي...

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كتاب القرنوي kitāb ālqārnāwy

17th century

The volume relates to duties such as praying and fasting, travelling etcetera. Author: محمد بن احمد بن سعيد القرنوي. muḥammad bin ʾaḥmad bin saʿīd ālqārnāwī The ...

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Untitled manuscript on Islamic law

18th century

The beginning and end of the volume are missing. It is a text on Islamic law including labour rules and wages for workers, waqf (trust), marriage, etcetera. Date uncertain.

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Annotated copy of an edition of Aristotle's 'Nicomachean Ethics'.

Aristotle (384 BCE-322 BCE)

1872

A small 1872 Oxford edition of 'Nicomachean Ethics', cut up and interleaved within a larger bound book of blank leaves on which extensive notes about the work have been written in manuscript by an unk...

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الفوائد الشنشوريَة في شرح المنظومة الرحبية. alfawaʾid išanšwriyyah fī šarḥi-lmanẓwmah ar-raḥbiyyah

17th century

The volume concerns Islamic law: it contains a discussion of business economy, women, Jihad amd a commentary on a work on fiqh (فقه). Author: عبدالله ابن احمد الشنشوري. ʿbd...

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Untitled manuscript on Islamic law

17th century

The volume concerns Islamic law: wudu (ritual washing before praying), funerals, marriage, divorce, etcetera. No author is identified. There are folios missing at the beginning and end of the volu...

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Untitled manuscript on Islamic law

18th century

The volume concerns Islamic law: Jizya (tax paid by non-Muslims), oath, witnessing law, marriage, etcetera. No author identified. Probably 18th century. The folios at the beginning and end of th...

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Untitled manuscript on Islamic law

17th century

The text concerns Islamic law: marriage, divorce, inheritance, contracts, etcetera. No author identified. The date could be 18th century. Folios at the beginning and end are missing.

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Untitled manuscript on Islamic law

17th century

The volume is about Islamic law relating to subjects such as purchase, selling and agents. It also discusses prayer, fasting, disability in marriage, divorce, widows' mourning period (iddah) etc. Th...

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كتاب الفوايد بين الناس kitāb alfawaiyid baina-nās

17th century

Incomplete volume relating to civil law. The title is written in red on folio 123a. There is no reference to the author's name in the volume.

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من ميثاق ولي الزمان min mīṯaq waliyy-zamān

early 19th century

The title of Part I is not stated. The title given is for Part II. The subject of the Part I is marriage law. Part II is a religious discussion about god and names.

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The intellectual virtues

Bonar, James (1852-1941)

1894

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