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Total number of records: 3313

Count of Record type

Record type	Count
Coins	2104
Archives	1002
Textiles	171
Books and printed items	33
Art items	3

Top 10: Collection group

Collection group	Count
Coin Collection	2104
Brotherton Collection	886
Medieval Manuscripts	750
International Textile Collection	171
Ripon Cathedral	110
Incunabula	20
Cookery Collection	6
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society	4
University Art Collection	3
Gypsy, Traveller and Roma Collections	1

Top 10: Subject

Subject	Count
saints	199
christ	115
virgin mary	104
fabulous animals	96
animals	70
birds	67
angels	58
god the father	48
fruits	47
passion of christ	44

Top 10: Place

Place	Count
Rome	256
Alexandria, Egypt	218
Antioch, Syria	194
Egypt	169
Berytus	47
Antioch, Pisidia	43
Marcianopolis	41
Edessa, Mesopotamia	34
Caesarea	34
Sidon	30

Top 10: People and organisations

People and organisations	Count
Elagabalus	98
Severus Alexander	90
Gordian III	82
Caracalla	77
Trajan	70
Philip I	67
Antoninus Pius	65
Hadrian	64
Septimius Severus	58
Alexander III of Macedon	57

Count of Earliest date

Earliest date	Count
From earliest	669
From 100	521
From 200	978
From 300	14
From 400	5
From 500	14
From 600	10
From 700	4
From 800	2
From 900	2
From 1000	18
From 1100	28
From 1200	99
From 1300	41
From 1400	776
From 1500	132

Count of Latest date

Latest date	Count
Up to 99	578
Up to 199	430
Up to 299	1121
Up to 399	53
Up to 499	6
Up to 599	12
Up to 699	8
Up to 799	5
Up to 899	3
Up to 999	3
Up to 1099	9
Up to 1199	22
Up to 1299	95
Up to 1399	26
Up to 1499	564
Up to 1599	378

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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Archive Collection

[Greek Gospels]

McLeish, Charles (1949-); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

10th century

Manuscript in Greek Minuscule on parchment, containing the text of the Gospels, with lectionary divisions in margins. Imperfect: wanting numerous leaves and with some sections of the text supplied lat...

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Archive Collection

Regiment of Princes

Hoccleve, Thomas (1369-1426); Selden (1420-); Robinson, John (16th century-16th century); Browne, Thomas (16th century-16th century); Gibbs, Frater (16th century-16th century); Pawson, Esther (17th century-17th century); Heber, Richard (1773-1833); Phillips, Sir Thomas (1792-1872); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor

c.1420

Manuscript in Middle English in Anglicana Formata on parchment, copied by the 'Selden Scribe' [ex inf.: Professor Sebastian Sobecki] containing Thomas Hoccleve's ‘Regiment of Princes’. Marginal gl...

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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

[Latin Bible]

Eden, Sir Robert Johnson (1774-1844); Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921); Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961); Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998); Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor; Sams, Joseph

13th century

Manuscript in Latin in Gothic bookhand (textura) on parchment, containing the text of the Old and New Testaments. Decoration: Minimal decoration, but occasional fine decorated capitals in red and blue...

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Archive File

Statutes, (22) of Henry VIII [ (Anno vicesimo secundo Henrici Octavi.)

Great Britain

[1551]

Printed copy of a collection of 16 acts, including "An acte concernyng outlandishe people cllyng them selfes Egiptians" [Gypsies/Travellers] (cap. 10) and "An acte concerning how aged, poore, and impo...

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יחוס האבות: illustrated account of the Holy Places in Palestine, written in Casale Monferrato, 1598.

Archive Judaica File

[Yiḥus avot]. [יחוס אבות]. [Illustrated account of the holy places in Palestine, written in Casale Monferrato].

358 [1597 or 1598]

Hebrew title supplied by cataloguer. English title derived from Roth, "Catalogue", in Alexander Marx: Jubilee Volume, vol. 1 (New York, 1950), no. 220. Variant titles: Eleh masʿe bene Yiśraʾel. ...

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