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Total number of records: 202

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	132
Archives	69
Art items	1

Count of Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	119
Medieval Manuscripts	67
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	26
Ripon Cathedral	5
English Literature	4
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	3

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
birds	202
insects	24
fruits	21
virgin mary	15
animals	13
fabulous animals	10
saints	7
angels	7
christ	7
holy ghost (as dove)	5

Count of Place

Place	Count
Iceland	3
United States	1
Southwest, New	1
Genoa, Italy	1
Colorado River (Colo.-Mexico)	1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Gould, John (1804-1881)	15
Gray, George Robert (1808-1872)	12
British Museum (Natural History). Department of Zoology	11
Gray, George Robert	11
Latham, John (1740-1837)	10
Morris, F O (1810-1893)	9
Smellie, William (1740-1795)	8
Smellie, William	8
Buffon, Georges Louis Leclerc Comte De (1707-1788)	8
Sharpe, Richard Bowdler (1847-1909)	8

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 1200	4
From 1300	3
From 1400	44
From 1500	17
From 1600	4
From 1700	28
From 1800	102

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1299	4
Up to 1399	1
Up to 1499	16
Up to 1599	47
Up to 1699	4
Up to 1799	20
Up to 1899	110

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BC MS NCC/9/2

Oil sketches

c. 1830

Undated oil sketches on woodpulp board and canvas by Edward Petre Novello. They are likely to have been painted in around 1830, following his studies at the Royal Academy of Arts and before his early ...

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General Literature A-0.02/REN

The domestic habits of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867)

1846

First appeared in The library of Entertaining Knowledge.

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General Literature A-0.02/REN

The architecture of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867); Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge

1831

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General Literature A-0.02/REN

The faculties of birds

Rennie, James (1787-1867)

1835

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Icelandic A-1.1/BAR

Iceland: its scenes and sagas

Baring-Gould, S (1834-1924)

1863

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Icelandic A-1.1/BAR

Iceland: its scenes and sagas

Baring-Gould, S (1834-1924)

1863

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Icelandic A-1.1/BAR

Iceland: its scenes and sagas

Baring-Gould, S (1834-1924)

1863

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BC 19c Gosse B-1/GOS

Natural history

Gosse, Philip Henry (1810-1888); Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain). Committee of General Literature and Education

1849

'Published under the direction of the Committee of General Literature and Education, appointed by the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge'.

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Yorkshire H-Yor-8/KEN/11

The Courtship, marriage, and pic nic dinner of Cock Robin and Jenny Wren

[ca.1825]

Anonymous.

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Ripon Cathedral Library VIII.A.12

Harmonia ruralis: or, An essay towards a natural history of British song birds: illustrated with figures, the size of life, of the birds, male and female, in their most natural attitudes... By James Bolton

Bolton, James (fl. 1775-1795)

1830

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BC MS NCC/13/8/9

'A Round Robin!' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello

5 Jan 1882

'A Round Robin!' by (Mary) Sabilla Novello, with a drawing of a robin surrounded by the autographs of her sister Mary Cowden Clarke, her brother (Joseph) Alfred Novello, her own, and those of her niec...

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Strong Room for. fol. 1555/BEL

L'histoire de la nature des oyseaux : avec leurs descriptions, & naïfs portraicts retirez du naturel

Belon, Pierre (1517?-1564); Prévost, Benoît (1562)

1555

Colophon contains statement: Imprime a Paris par Benoist Preuost... 1555. Each part except the first has a separate t.p: Book 2. La nature des oyseaux vivants de rapine, tant de iour que de nuict. -...