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Total number of records: 949

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Archives	882
Books and printed items	33
Coins	29
Art items	3
Textiles	2

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	873
Medieval Manuscripts	645
Coin Collection	29
Incunabula	20
Ripon Cathedral	9
Cookery Collection	6
University Art Collection	3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	2
International Textile Collection	2
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
saints	174
christ	113
virgin mary	103
fabulous animals	65
birds	63
animals	59
angels	56
fruits	47
passion of christ	43
insects	40

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
London	8
Italy	2
Venice	2
Middlesex (England)	1
Mallorca	1
Nantes	1
Toledo	1
Zhejiang	1
Yorkshire (England)	1
York	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
Melanchthon, Philipp (1497-1560)	3
Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787-1854)	3
Linck, Sebastian (1548)	3
Eck, Oswald Von (1573)	3

Count of Earliest date

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

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 1399	18
Up to 1499	563
Up to 1599	368

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 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

Portrait of a Man (Duke of Monmouth)

c.1596

Painting:
LEEUA 1961.028

Portrait of a Man

1500s

Frame Type - original;no backing

Archive Item:
MS Dep 1980/1/355

PRECEDENT BOOK, containing examples from cases heard in the ecclesiastical courts at York in the 15th century. With some additions and marginalia. (After 1497)

15th century

Archive Print Item:
Whitaker Collection 1 fol

[An atlas of the counties of England and Wales [cartographic material]

Saxton, Christopher (1542-)

[1579]

Consists of 45 coloured maps, variously dated from 1574 to 1579, which represent the earliest survey of England and Wales. There is one general map of England and Wales; 24 are maps of single counties...