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Medieval Manuscripts2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
Business Archives1
Ripon Cathedral1
Brotherton Collection1

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fabulous animals2
coal mines and mining1

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Turre [Torre] Family1
Rishbrooke Family1
Hervey Family1
Davers Family1
Jermyn Family1

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Archive Collection

Henry Briggs, Son and Company Limited, Business Archive

1865-1961

Minute books of the coalmaster's company.

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REVEREND JOSEPH HUNTER MANUSCRIPTS: NOTES ON VARIOUS FAMILIES

c1809

Accounts of Rishbrooke family and pedigree of Jermyns of Rishbrooke taken from one lent to the writer by Mrs Davers of Bury St Edmunds; Pedigree of Torre family with covering letter from Christopher ...

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Monsters and grotesques (fol. 30v)
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Monsters and grotesques (fol. 30v)

[ca. 142-?]

The historiated border includes a grotesque with a woman's head wearing a head-dress and with a lion's lower body walking with a stick (tau cross), and a wyvern-like grotesque with goat's horns.

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Apostle preaching (fol. 453r)
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Apostle preaching (fol. 453r)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'P' encloses the scene of a nimbed figure (Christ?) talking to a group of listeners. The initial is further decorated with a small grotesque head. An ornamental initial 'L' is infilled with fo...

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