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Collection group	Count
Medieval Manuscripts	2
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	1
Business Archives	1
Ripon Cathedral	1
Brotherton Collection	1

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Subject	Count
fabulous animals	2
coal mines and mining	1

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People and organisations	Count
Turre [Torre] Family	1
Rishbrooke Family	1
Hervey Family	1
Davers Family	1
Jermyn Family	1

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From 1400	1
From 1700	1
From 1800	1

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Up to 1299	1
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Up to 1899	1
Up to 1999	1

Archive Collection:
MS 160

Henry Briggs, Son and Company Limited, Business Archive

1865-1961

Minute books of the coalmaster's company.

Archive Collection:
YAS/MS160

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 ...

Archive Piece:
BC MS 1/60

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.

Archive Piece:
Ripon Cathedral MS 1/60

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...