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Leeds Russian Archive31
Liddle Collection24
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Janina and Zygmunt Bauman22
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society18
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Thoresby, Ralph (1658-1725)22
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham15
Whitaker, Thomas Dunham (1759-1821)15
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Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)11
Brothers, Richard, 1757-182410
Halhed, Nathaniel Brassey (1751-1830)8
Plot, Robert (1640-1696)7
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Society of Friends6

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Archive File
Union News, issue 268
Archive Item
Jesus Sirach and a king (fol. 268v)
Archive Piece

Jesus Sirach and a king (fol. 268v)

[ca. 1260]

Initial 'O' encloses a scene of Jesus ben Sirach speaking to a king. The border has two hybrids that are birds with a human head, one female, one male.

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Ad Incensum Lucernae

1974

1974 Reduced photocopy of full score.

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Archive Series

Archive File

Two photographs

1850-1980

268/1 B/w photograph of Duchess of Kent conferring honorary degree on DC, 12” x 15”

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Archive File

MS notes (1f) and copy of TS records of proceedings of the Conference of Universities of the Empire including speech by Sadler (3ff)

1912

Dated July 19 1912. See also letters database for correspondence with Alex Hill on this event 4ff. Marked up for publication by J H Higginson. The typescript text is not the complete record: paginatio...

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