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Total number of records: 4226

Count of Collection group

Collection groupCount
Brotherton Collection1764
Incunabula1413
Ripon Cathedral1189
Cookery Collection105
English Literature20
Quaker Collection3
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
Herbert Read Collection1
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections1

Top 10: Subject

SubjectCount
theology73
theology, doctrinal35
medicine31
reformation23
latin language22
lord's supper19
astronomy19
church history19
canon law18
sermons, latin18

Top 10: Place

PlaceCount
Great Britain55
Rome41
France31
Italy16
Rome (Italy)9
Europe8
Scotland8
Spain8
Greece6
Venice (Italy)5

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisationsCount
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st Baron (1856-1930)264
Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton235
Erasmus, Desiderius (1536)116
Catholic Church104
Cicero, Marcus Tullius96
Cecil Betsalel Roth53
רות, בצלאל53
בצלאל ססיל רות53
Roth, Cecil (1899-1970)53
Augustine Saint, Bishop of Hippo47

Count of Earliest date

Earliest dateCount
From 14001444
From 15002781
From 19001

Count of Latest date

Latest dateCount
Up to 991
Up to 14991390
Up to 15992835

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Foreign C16 (Brotherton Collection)

1500-1599

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Brotherton Collection for C16 Facs

1500-1599

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A Defence of the Apologie of the Churche of Englande : Conteininge an Answeare to a certaine Booke lately set foorthe by M. Hardinge, and Entituled, A Confutation of &c

Jewel, John (1522-1571)

Anno 1567. 27. Octobris. Cum Gratia & Priuilegio Regiae Maiestatis

Printer's device on title-page. Text in Gothic, Roman and Italic type; printed marginal notations in Italic type. Initials. "To Maister Hardinge" signed From London.27.Octobris.1567. John Saaari...

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A concent of Scripture

Broughton, Hugh (1549-1612); Hondius, Jodocus (1563-1612)

[1590]

Engraved t.p. Place and printer from colophon; date from STC. Signatures: engr. t.p. pi⁴ A-G⁴ (G4 blank). Plates, maps, and t.p. probably engraved by Jodocus Hondius. The folded circular m...

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Vocabulario de las dos lenguas toscana y castellana : en que se contiene la declaracion de toscano en castellano, y de castellano en toscano, en dos partes

Casas, Cristobal de las (1576); Camilli, Camillo (1615)

1582

Printer's device on t.p. and on p. following colophon (p. [439]).

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Al ingratitude vtterly settyng apart we owe to calle to our myndes the manyfolde gyftes of grace with the benefaittis. that our lorde of his moost plentiueuse bonte hath ymen vs wretches in this present transitoire lif

Miélot, Jean (1472); Woodville, Anthony (1440-1483); Caxton, William (1422-1492); Denis le Chartreux (1471); Gerardus de Vliederhoven; Ingoldisthorpe, Jane (1425-1494); Bothbby, John; Duncalf, John (1783-1836); Lowe, James of Macclesfield; Bateman, Thomas (1821-1861); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor; Downes Chapel, Pot Shrigley

24 March 1479

Collation of complete copy: [a–i⁸k⁶]. The first and last leaves are blanks. Imprint from ISTC. Colophon on sig. [k]4v: which book was deliuered to me William Caxton by my saide noble lorde R...

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Divers desseins

Androuet Du Cerceau, Jacques (1511-1586); Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019); Parker, Richard Timothy George Mansfield 9th Earl of Macclesfield (1943-); Parker, Thomas 1st Earl of Macclefield (1666-1732); Parker, George 2nd Earl of Macclesfield (1697-1764); Parker, Thomas 3rd Earl of Macclefield (1723-1795); Sotheby's (Firm); Robin Halwas

c.1545-1565

66 plates hand numbered 1 to 67, folio 44 numbered on recto 44 and 45 on verso, comprising 73 etched designs for furniture and furnishings. French title taken from spine. Collation: forty-four pri...

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Opuscula beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Ca[n]tuarie[n]sis ordinis Sancti Benedicti

Anselm Saint, Archbishop of Canterbury (1033-1109); Honorius of Autun (1080-1156); Amerbach, Johannes (1430-1513); Martinus, Jacobus; Hoff, Thomas; Hofer, David; Saulnier, Nicolas; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930)

[not after 1497]

Signatures: A-B⁸ a-z⁸ [et]⁸. Imprint from ISTC. Included in the text is the medieval geography De imagine mundi. Printed in two columns with 49 or 50 lines to a full column. Initial spac...

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In librum Galeni De humoribus commentarii

Piccolomini, Arcangelo (1525-1586); Galen

1556

Includes Greek and Latin text of De humoribus.

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