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Total number of records: 2935

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Coins	2090
Archives	657
Textiles	168
Books and printed items	20

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Coin Collection	2090
Brotherton Collection	557
Medieval Manuscripts	433
International Textile Collection	168
Ripon Cathedral	101
Incunabula	20
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	4

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
saints	120
fabulous animals	72
christ	57
virgin mary	55
animals	44
god the father	36
angels	32
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)	29
passion of christ	25
birds	21

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Rome	256
Alexandria, Egypt	218
Antioch, Syria	194
Egypt	168
Berytus	47
Antioch, Pisidia	43
Marcianopolis	41
Caesarea	34
Edessa, Mesopotamia	34
Sidon	30

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Elagabalus	98
Severus Alexander	90
Gordian III	82
Caracalla	77
Trajan	70
Philip I	67
Antoninus Pius	65
Hadrian	64
Septimius Severus	58
Alexander III of Macedon	57

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From earliest	669
From 100	521
From 200	978
From 300	14
From 400	5
From 500	14
From 600	10
From 700	4
From 800	2
From 900	2
From 1000	9
From 1100	28
From 1200	98
From 1300	41
From 1400	540

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	578
Up to 199	430
Up to 299	1121
Up to 399	53
Up to 499	6
Up to 599	12
Up to 699	8
Up to 799	5
Up to 899	3
Up to 999	3
Up to 1099	9
Up to 1199	22
Up to 1299	95
Up to 1399	26
Up to 1499	564

Archive Collection:
MS 2284

Cosmographia

1475

Manuscript in Latin in Humanistic bookhand on parchment, containing Pomponius Mela 'Cosmographia' [fols. 1-30r], the anonymous 'Descriptio Ligustice regionis', a description of Liguria and Genoa, [fol...

Archive Collection:
MS 2285

[Greek Gospels]

10th century

Manuscript in Greek Minuscule on parchment, containing the text of the Gospels, with lectionary divisions in margins. Imperfect: wanting numerous leaves and with some sections of the text supplied lat...

Archive Collection:
MS 2286

Regiment of Princes

c.1420

Manuscript in Middle English in Anglicana Formata on parchment, copied by the 'Selden Scribe' [ex inf.: Professor Sebastian Sobecki] containing Thomas Hoccleve's ‘Regiment of Princes’. Marginal gl...

Archive Collection:
MS 2287

Brut Chronicle

After 1430

Manuscript in Middle English in several Anglicana bookhands on parchment containing the text of the Brut Chronicle (Prose Brut). Contemporary scribal additions in Anglicana bookhand correcting omissio...

Archive Collection:
MS 2288

[Latin Bible]

13th century

Manuscript in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textura) on parchment, containing the text of the Old and New Testaments. Decoration: Minimal decoration, but occasional fine decorated capitals in red and blue...

Archive Judaica File:
MS ROTH/32

[Seder tefilot be-targum le-Shuʾadit]. [סדר תפילות בתרגום לשואדית]. [Translation of the Jewish prayer book into Judaeo-Provençal with a register of the Montel family, 1587-1614].

[14th-15th century]

Archive Item:
MS Dep 1980/1/355

PRECEDENT BOOK, containing examples from cases heard in the ecclesiastical courts at York in the 15th century. With some additions and marginalia. (After 1497)

15th century

Archive Item:
BC MS 1

[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 142-?]

Four gatherings of 12 (Calendar), 8, 8 and 8. Leaves missing after the first two gatherings (Calendar; Gospel Sequences and Obsecro te) and the last two gatherings (Penitential psalms; Penitential psa...

Archive Item:
BC MS 31/1

Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)

[14--? ]

Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...

Archive Item:
BC MS Frag. 1

Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts

14th century

Comprises: 1) a leaf from a late 14th-century (?) Book of Hours, with a large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The miniature is surrounded by a full decorated borde...

Archive Item:
Ripon Cathedral MS 1

[Biblia]

[ca. 1260]

Decoration: biblical books and divisions of Psalms have historiated 9-line initials in colours, on gold grounds, and with ornamental bars extending to the margins that are often decorated by birds and...

Archive Item:
YAS/MD50/1

Lease for eight years

1235

1. Abbot Maurice and the Convent of Kirkstall 2. Elias de Lofthusum Property: bovate of land with toft with was Roger's together with Iustecroft and all its appurtenances in the vill of Lofthusum [L...