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Total number of records: 2890

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Coins	1632
Archives	1083
Books and printed items	130
Textiles	37
Art items	8

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Coin Collection	1632
Brotherton Collection	1019
Medieval Manuscripts	750
Ripon Cathedral	110
Brotherton Collection Manuscript Verse	64
International Textile Collection	37
Cookery Collection	32
Incunabula	20
English Literature	19
University Art Collection	8

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
saints	199
christ	115
virgin mary	104
fabulous animals	96
animals	70
birds	67
english poetry	67
angels	58
god the father	48
fruits	47

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Rome	253
Alexandria, Egypt	188
Antioch, Syria	112
Antioch, Pisidia	42
Marcianopolis	41
Edessa, Mesopotamia	34
Caesarea	33
Tyre	23
Viminacium	23
Berytus	20

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Elagabalus	98
Severus Alexander	90
Gordian III	82
Caracalla	77
Philip I	67
Antoninus Pius	65
Hadrian	64
Septimius Severus	58
Shakespeare, William (1564-1616)	55
Severus Alexander (Augustus)	53

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
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	18
From 1100	28
From 1200	99
From 1300	41
From 1400	776
From 1500	150
From 1600	228

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 199	382
Up to 299	1116
Up to 399	16
Up to 499	6
Up to 599	11
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
Up to 1599	378
Up to 1699	246

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 Collection:
MS 2289

A pamflyt compiled of cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodness, of the same

c.1580

Manuscript in Secretary hand on paper containing 'A pampflyt compiled of cheese'. Decoration: Undecorated; page frames ruled. Collation: [A-P4]. With one initial and two final flyleaves. Each quire is...

Archive Series:
MS 24

Recipes for cookery and household remedies

16--

Contemporary pagination (irregular) 3-4, 10-11, 19-20, 23-48, 51-68, 69-71, 76-99, 104-109, 112-115, 122-127, 130-143, 148-167, 170-180. Commencing from the other end, modern ink pagination (irregular...

Archive File:
MS 1936/1/2/6

Small notebook 6

1671-1680

Comprises a treatise 'On marriage by William Edmonson', 1680 and 'Friends keep to the Antient Principle of Truth', by George Fox, dated 1671. Also includes an account 'On the death of Joseph Earnshaw...

Archive File:
BC MS ROM 1/7/1/1

Statutes, (22) of Henry VIII [ (Anno vicesimo secundo Henrici Octavi.)

[1551]

Printed copy of a collection of 16 acts, including "An acte concernyng outlandishe people cllyng them selfes Egiptians" [Gypsies/Travellers] (cap. 10) and "An acte concerning how aged, poore, and impo...

Archive File:
MS/DEP/1981/2/YORK/1/63/1

Grant of land by William Siddall of Tadcaster to fellow local Quakers for a burial ground, 16 Nov 1659

1659

Archive Judaica File:
MS ROTH/220

[Yiḥus avot]. [יחוס אבות]. [Illustrated account of the holy places in Palestine, written in Casale Monferrato].

358 [1597 or 1598]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 220. Variant titles: Eleh masʿe bene Yiśraʾel. ...

Archive Judaica File:
MS ROTH/227

[Will of Letitia Nahmias (wife of Giulio Morosini), 1668 (copy), with relating records (some original), Venice, 1669–1673].

[1669–1673]

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 227. Variant titles: Tsaṿaʾah u-teʿudot. צוואה ותעודות. Testament. ...