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Total number of records: 2396

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Books and printed items	2358
Textiles	31
Archives	6
Coins	1

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Brotherton Collection	262
English Literature	82
International Textile Collection	31
Cookery Collection	10
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	7
Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society	6
Ripon Cathedral	4
Herbert Read Collection	4
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	4
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection	3

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
french literature	49
biography	48
bio-bibliography	47
political science	38
courts and courtiers	35
hundred years' war, 1339-1453	32
encyclopedias and dictionaries, french	30
sociology	30
finance, public	24
finance	20

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
France	2396
Great Britain	227
Europe	98
Paris (France)	62
Italy	48
Spain	22
Netherlands	20
Germany	19
Burgundy (France)	17
Flanders	16

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
France	172
France. Convention Nationale, 1792-1795	93
France. Assemblee Nationale Constituante 1789-1791	79
Louis XVI, King of France, 1754-1793	65
France. Assemblee Nationale Legislative, 1791-1792	59
Academie Des Sciences	56
Petitot, Claude Bernard	52
Henry IV, King of France, 1553-1610	52
Petitot, Claude Bernard (1772-1825)	52
Voltaire (1694-1778)	51

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From 400	1
From 1500	33
From 1600	164
From 1700	1145
From 1800	1053

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 499	1
Up to 1599	31
Up to 1699	165
Up to 1799	1079
Up to 1899	1120

Archive Collection

DECLARATION OF NATIONALITY

5 Nov 1896

Declaration by Albert Edward Leak of Lille, son of George William Leak and Elizabeth Machan, both of Leeds, renouncing French citizenship in favour of British citizenship

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Archive Judaica File

Estratto Dei Registri delle Deliberazioni. [Proclamation , 22 March 1812, the Central Consistory of the Jews of the French Empire to their Italian co-religionists regarding the Napoleonic reorganisation, et cetera (certified copy)].

[1812?]

Italian title supplied by cataloguer from heading on document. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 247. Invocation: Isaiah 2...

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Archive File

Sketchbooks

1822-1835

Ten sketchbooks belonging to Edward Petre Novello, dating from his time as a student at Sass's Academy in Bloomsbury and the Royal Academy of Arts and the period afterwards, including travels to Franc...

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