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Total number of records: 1048

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	970
Coins	33
Books and printed items	33
Textiles	9
Art items	3

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	875
Medieval Manuscripts	731
Ripon Cathedral	93
Coin Collection	33
Incunabula	20
International Textile Collection	9
Cookery Collection	6
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	3
University Art Collection	3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
saints	199
christ	115
virgin mary	104
fabulous animals	93
animals	70
birds	67
angels	58
god the father	48
fruits	47
passion of christ	44

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
London	8
Egypt	7
Venice	2
Italy	2
Acre	2
Nantes	1
Mallorca	1
Middlesex (England)	1
Salzburg	1
Zhejiang	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Catholic Church	21
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)	14
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton	10
Platina (1421-1481)	6
Publius Ovidus Naso	4
Ovid (43 B.C.-17 A.D. Or 18 A.D)	4
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor	4
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)	4
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)	4
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)	4

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1200	99
From 1300	41
From 1400	776
From 1500	132

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1299	90
Up to 1399	25
Up to 1499	564
Up to 1599	369

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 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 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 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/32

[Seder tefilot be-targum le-Shuʾadit]. [סדר תפילות בתרגום לשואדית]. [Translation of the Jewish prayer book into Judaeo-Provençal with a register of the Montel family, 1587-1614].

[14th-15th century]

Archive File:
MS 426

Expenses of the diets provided for the Council in Star Chamber at Westminster during Easter Term, 3 Eliz. I, 1561

1561

ff.1r and 7r-12v are blank

Print:
LEEUA 1991.017

Venus (from The Gods who Preside Over the Seven Planets)

1553

Frame Type - exhibition frame

Painting:
LEEUA 1961.018