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Total number of records: 273

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Archives202
Books and printed items71

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Medieval Manuscripts200
Brotherton Collection198
Ripon Cathedral28
Herbert Read Collection13
Leeds Russian Archive2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Leeds Archive of Vernacular Culture1
Incunabula1

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saints273
virgin mary34
animals33
christ27
fabulous animals23
passion of christ19
fathers of the church17
church history16
angels15
human occupations representing seasons and months11

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Jacobus De Voragine, Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)23
Ellis, Frederick Startridge17
Caxton, William17
Ellis, Frederick Startridge (1830-1901)17
Caxton, William (1422-1491)17
Le Nain De Tillemont, Louis Sebastien (1637-1698)16
Catholic Church6
Kelmscott Press6
Jacobus4
Stephens, George (1813-1895)3

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Fasti Mariani cum Divorum elogiis in singulos anni dies distributis

Brunner, Andreas (1589-1650); Sodality of the Blessed Virgin Mary

1660

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Lives of saints : selected and abridged from the original work of the Rev. Alban Butler (v.1)

Butler, Alban (1711-1773); Challoner, Richard (1691-1781); Bell, John (1854)

1799

With "A short view of the history of the church", by Bishop Challoner: v. 1, p. 1-40. Selected and abridged by John Bell.

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Lives of saints : selected and abridged from the original work of the Rev. Alban Butler (v.2)

Butler, Alban (1711-1773); Challoner, Richard (1691-1781); Bell, John (1854)

1799

With "A short view of the history of the church", by Bishop Challoner: v. 1, p. 1-40. Selected and abridged by John Bell.

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Oil sketch of St John

c. 1830

Undated oil sketch of St John by Edward Petre Novello, with a cutting from the Dial dated 1 October 1894 used as a folder.

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Legenda aurea sanctorum, by Jacobus de Voragine

de Voragine, Jacobus Archbishop of Genoa (1229-1298)

c.1312

Includes a 13th century manuscript of Josephus and a 13th century Breviary bound into the codex as fly-leaves

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Shrines of British saints

Wall, J Charles

1905

Publisher's catalogue (40 pages) bound at end.

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