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Total number of records: 252

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Record type	Count
Books and printed items	240
Archives	12

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Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	97
English Literature	29
Ripon Cathedral	8
Quaker Collection	6
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	6
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	2
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	2
Cookery Collection	2

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Subject	Count
sermons, english	8
industries	8
meteorology	7
commerce	7
jews -- england -- london -- history -- sources.	6
banks and banking (british)	6
theology	6
clothing and dress	5
intellectual life	5
jews -- england -- history -- 19th century -- sources.	5

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Place	Count
London (England)	252
England	43
Great Britain	31
Wales	5
Middlesex (England)	3
Penzance (England)	1
Sidney (Australia)	1
Oxford (England)	1
Soho (London, England)	1
Westminster (London, England)	1

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People and organisations	Count
Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019)	29
City of London. Corporation	14
Pennant, Thomas (1726-1798)	13
Great Britain	13
Fairfax, Thomas Fairfax Baron (1612-1671)	10
Great Britain. Army	9
Great Britain. Parliament	8
Howard, Luke (1772-1864)	7
Grosley, Pierre Jean (1718-1785)	7
City of London	7

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Earliest date	Count
From 1500	1
From 1600	68
From 1700	63
From 1800	120

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Up to 1599	1
Up to 1699	66
Up to 1799	55
Up to 1899	130

Archive Judaica File:
MS ROTH/242

[Letter, 4 March 1801, Joshua van Oven to Patrick Colquhoun, Esq., regarding the amelioration of the condition of the Jews in London (copy)].

1801

Title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 242. As of 2020, MS Roth 242 missing. This description is based on the microfilm of MS Roth 243 ...

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MS ROTH/243

Plan for ameliorating the condition and improving the habits of the lower order of the Jews in London / [Joshua van Oven].

[1805?]

Title supplied from heading on folio 1r. According to Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 243, the item is a "fair copy, with notes and corrections in...

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MS ROTH/249

[Begging letter, after 6 September 1666, from Jacob ben Rabbi Samuel Augusto to the Earl of Huntingdon, referring to "that unhappy fire in London hath undone me, for my pleace[!], for my hebrew bookis, and for my living" (original)].

[1666?]

English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 249. Summary: Only first leaf recto, and last leaf verso (address and traces of red wax...

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MS ROTH/262

[Pinḳas shel Ḥayim Ṿolṭerah : igrot, teʿudot, shirim, heʿarot ʿal ha-Tanakh, ʿinyene ḳabalah, ilan ha-sefirot, halatsot, ḥidot, ṿe-khu.]. [פנקס של חיים וולטירה : אגרות, תעודות, שירים, הערות על התנ׳׳ך, עניני קבלה, אילן הספירות, הלצות, חידות, וכו׳]. [Letter book and commonplace book of Ḥayim (Vita) Volterra of Ancona].

[c 1710–1714]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 262. Variant titles: Igron. אגרון. Igrot...

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MS ROTH/268

Taḳanot le-ʿadat Yeshurun di-ḳ.ḳ. b. ha-ken. ha-gedolah Duḳs Plehs be-London / nishtanu ṿe-nitḳenu bi-shenat H. 587 li-yetsirah ṿe-neʿetḳu mi-leshon ʿEnglish ... me-et Meʾir Ḳenigsberg [(be-defus) nikhrakh ʿim hosafot bi-khetav yad miha-shanim 596–614]. תקנות לעדת ישרון דק׳׳ק בהכ׳׳נ הגדולה דוקס פלעהס בלאנדאן / נשתנו ונתקנו בשנת ה׳ תקפ׳׳ז ליצירה ונעתקו מלשון ענגליש ... מאת מאיר קעניגסבערג ‏[‏ ‏(בדפוס)‏ ‏נכרך עם הוספות בכתב יד מהשנים תקצ׳׳ו-תרי׳׳ד‏]‏. [Manuscript supplement comprising amendments and additions, 1835-1853, bound with the 1827 printed edition of] Laws of the congregation of the Great Synagogue, Duke’s Place, London.

[1827–1853]

Hebrew title supplied from title page of printed part and by cataloguer. English title derived from title page of English section of printed part and from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee...

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MS ROTH/*285

[Letter book of The Jews' and General Literary and Scientific Institution (Sussex Hall), 1846-1855, with a copy of the indenture agreement, 4 December 1844, concerning the property on which Sussex Hall was build].

[1846 ?–1855]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Summary: Contains copies of numerous letters to but also from eminent Jews and other public figures of the time; most letters are from the Jews' and General Literary a...

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MS ROTH/710

[Sefer nedavot shel bet keneset be-London]. [ספר נדבות של בית כנסת בלונדון]. [Offertory-book of a London synagogue].

[18th–19th century]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, “Catalogue”, in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 710. Variant title: Shnoder-book. Summary: ...

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MS ROTH/730

[Derashot]. [דרשות]. [Sermons delivered by Isaac Lyon? in the New Synagogue, London, c 1794–1806].

[c 1794–1806]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 730. Inscribed in ink on the contemporary cover of ...

Archive Judaica File:
MS ROTH/*745

[Pinḳas : ṭeyuṭot li-derashot, reshimot, ḥeshbonot ḳehilah, ṿe-khu. be-Yidish ṿe-ʿIvrit, Sefer Eshel migdanot me-et Avraham ben Eliʿezer Lipman Likhtshteyn, u-khelale hagiyah shel ha-śafah ha-Anglit be-Germanit]. [פנקס : טיוטות לדרשות, רשימות, חשבונות קהילה, וכו׳ ביידיש ועברית, ספר אשל מגדנות מאת אברהם בן אליעזר ליפמן ליכטשטיין, וכללי הגייה של השפה האנגלית בגרמנית]. [Notebook : drafts of sermons, notes, community financial records, et cetera, in Yiddish and Hebrew, as well as Abraham ben Eliezer Lipman Lichtstein’s work on ethics, and English pronunciation rules explained in German].

[c 1840–c 1867]

Title supplied by cataloguer. Variant title: Maḥberet. מחברת. Approximate date of production: There are very few dated entries which the scribe did not copy out of other writings. The ea...

Archive Print Item:
Large Architecture C-0 LIE

Holland House (v.1)

Liechtenstein, Marie Princess of (1843-1931); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor

1874

"With numerous illustrations." Includes index (volume 2).

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Large Architecture C-0 LIE

Holland House (v.2)

Liechtenstein, Marie Princess of (1843-1931); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor

1874

"With numerous illustrations." Includes index (volume 2).

Archive Print Item:
Economics A-0.19/URE

Recent improvements in arts, manufactures, and mines : being a supplement to his Dictionary