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Total number of records: 2712

Count of Record type

Record typeCount
Books and printed items1391
Archives1121
People and organisations125
Objects49
Coins26

Top 10: Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1837
Incunabula1379
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society578
Medieval Manuscripts307
Ripon Cathedral43
Coin Collection26
Cookery Collection2
University Archive1
Feminist Archive North1
Herbert Read Collection1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
saints95
christ55
virgin mary53
fabulous animals39
animals32
angels29
passion of christ24
god the father20
manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)19
birth and youth of christ17

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Rome4
Italy4
Florence (Italy)3
Kirkby Overblow; Yorkshire West Riding2
London2
Rishworth; Halifax; Yorkshire West Riding1
Appleton Le Street; Yorkshire North Riding1
Sicily1
Sinningthwaite Priory; Bilton Ainsty; Yorkshire West Riding1
Richmond (North Yorkshire)1

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)257
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton227
Koberger, Anton24
Koberger, Anton (1440-1513)24
Catholic Church14
Antoninus Saint, Archbishop of Florence (1389-1459)11
Husner, Georg10
Husner, Georg (1505)10
Nicholas, of Lyra Commentator (1270-1349)9
Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard (1787-1854)9

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Archive Collection

SHERIFF'S TOURN FOR HEDON

1457-8

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Archive Collection

PHOTOCOPY OF RENTAL OF FOUNTAINS ABBEY

(1496-1497)

With transcript in Latin. Original is WYAS: Leeds, Vyner MSS5458.

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Archive Collection

Archive Collection

PHOTOCOPY OF A DEED RELTING TO PROPERTY IN MIDDELTON [PARISHI OF ROTHWELL]

(1420)

Also abstract in English, 1983. Original is Northumberland Record Office ZBG 8/7.

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Archive Collection

Archive Collection
Cosmographia
Archive Collection

Cosmographia

Pomponius Mela; Solinus, Gaius Julius; Servius, Petrus (1641-); Askew, Anthony (1722-1774); Woodhull, Michael (1816-); Ingram, Mary (1824-); Severne, Amy Samuel (1846-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

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...

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Brut Chronicle
Archive Collection

Brut Chronicle

Wolhouse, Anthony (1533-1587); Speed, W; Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

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...

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Archive Collection

QUITTANCE OF DOWER

4 Apr 1404

Quittance of dower by John de Canali of Bussanna, received from John de Montali of Quarto on behlaf of Catherine di Antonio Sarpe of Quarto, wife of John de Canali and niece of John de Montali

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Archive Collection

GRANT

1404

1. Thomas Fuller 2. William Goldryng, vicar of the church of haghele and others

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