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Total number of records: 1702

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Archives121
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Coin Collection1573
Medieval Manuscripts114
Ripon Cathedral92
Brotherton Collection21
International Textile Collection8
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society3

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king david6
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christ2

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Rome252
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Elagabalus98
Severus Alexander90
Gordian III82
Caracalla77
Philip I67
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Hadrian64
Septimius Severus58
Severus Alexander (Augustus)53
Valerian44

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Archive Collection:
MS 2285
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 2288
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 Item:
BC MS Frag. 1
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
[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
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...
Archive Item:
YAS/MD225/1/105
1379
To be edited for publication by J Addy and A Young
Archive Item:
BC MS 33/1
c.11th century
Coin:
CC.1021
540-541
Corroded
Coin:
CC.1022
557-558
Diademed, helmeted and cuirassed imperial bust facing holding cross-on-globe in right hand, a cross in field at right, with legend around, DN IVSTINIANVS PP AVC.
Coin:
CC.1118
612-613
Officina B; doublestriking clear on reverse, whole coin overstruck on one of Phocas; countermarked on obverse with barred square C
Coin:
CC.1119
1030-1042