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Total number of records: 2384

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Coins2104
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Archives75
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Art items3

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Coin Collection2104
International Textile Collection171
Brotherton Collection64
Medieval Manuscripts52
Ripon Cathedral19
Incunabula18
Cookery Collection5
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society4
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manuscripts, latin (medieval and modern)41
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Rome256
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Elagabalus98
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Gordian III82
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Alexander III of Macedon57

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Venus (from The Gods who Preside Over the Seven Planets)
Print
Portrait of a Man (Duke of Monmouth)
Painting
Portrait of a Man
Painting

Portrait of a Man

British (English) School, unknown

1500s

Frame Type - original;no backing

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

[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...

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[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]
Archive Item

[Horae Beatae Mariae Virginis]

[ca. 142-?]

Four gatherings of 12 (Calendar), 8, 8 and 8. Leaves missing after the first two gatherings (Calendar; Gospel Sequences and Obsecro te) and the last two gatherings (Penitential psalms; Penitential psa...

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Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest
Archive Item

Extracts from Ptolemy's Almagest and other works, and from the Greek commentators on the Almagest 9 (v.1)

Ptolemy; Theon of Alexandria; Porphyry (234-305); Rhabdas, Nicolaus Artabasdos

[14--? ]

Volume 1 contains extracts from Ptolemy Mathematike Syntaxis (the Almagest), together with two other short works on astronomy by Ptolemy (c. 2 AD), and extracts from the commentary on the Mathematike ...

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Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts
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Three single leaves from medieval liturgical manuscripts

14th century

Comprises: 1) a leaf from a late 14th-century (?) Book of Hours, with a large arched miniature of the Annunciation, in a French style of painting. The miniature is surrounded by a full decorated borde...

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[Biblia]
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[Biblia]

[ca. 1260]

Decoration: biblical books and divisions of Psalms have historiated 9-line initials in colours, on gold grounds, and with ornamental bars extending to the margins that are often decorated by birds and...

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Lease for eight years
Archive Item

Lease for eight years

1235

1. Abbot Maurice and the Convent of Kirkstall 2. Elias de Lofthusum Property: bovate of land with toft with was Roger's together with Iustecroft and all its appurtenances in the vill of Lofthusum [L...

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Manor of Wakefield court roll
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Manor of Wakefield court roll

1379

To be edited for publication by J Addy and A Young

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