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Brotherton Collection4
Novello Cowden Clarke Collection1
Yorkshire Archaeological and Historical Society1
English Literature1

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music2
music publishing1
painting1
poetry1
travel1
theology1
theatre1
literature1
health1
christianity1

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Rome, Italy1
Genoa, Italy1
Florence, Italy1
Burton Constable; West Newton; Swine; Yorkshire East Riding1
Fermo, Italy1

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Solinus, Gaius Julius1
Severne, Amy Samuel (1846-)1
Southwell, Daphne (1907-1998)1
Spittle, Stanley Denys Trevor1
Woodhull, Michael (1816-)1
Watson, Thomas Edward (1851-1921)1
Watson, Geoffrey (1897-1961)1
Servius, Petrus (1641-)1
Ingram, Mary (1824-)1
Brown, James Clifford (1923-2004)1

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Archive Collection

ABRAHAM WOODHEAD MANUSCRIPTS VOLUME 15

17th century

Comprising, "Whether it be sufficient motive for non communion with the Church of Rome that the Council of Trent,..."

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Archive Print Collection

Numismatics

A large proportion of the works date from the early 20th century, and the late 18th century. The works cover many aspects of numismatics, but the majority of them focus on the classical era. Coins of ...

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Archive Collection

Elizabeth Cook correspondence and papers

Cook, Elizabeth (1952-)

1986-2003

Comprises papers relating to the published work 'Achilles' including correspondence; hardback notebook, folders with cuttings and research material; material relating to performance history, including...

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Archive Print Collection

Ancient History

Works published from 1613 to the present day, with well over two-thirds of the collection dating from the 19th and 20th centuries. Subjects include antiquities, tombs, vases, architecture, art, excava...

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Archive Print Collection

Travel (Brotherton Collection)

1600-1800

Works on European and Mediterranean travel in the period 1600 to 1800. Many of the works are descriptions of individual countries (including Russia, Europe, Middle East, Turkey, Italy and Spain), by E...

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Archive Print Collection

Great Britain C16/17 (Brotherton Collection)

Works printed in Great Britain in the 16th and 17th centuries, nearly all in English or Latin. The earliest is a law book, the Natura breuium, printed in 1518 - one of a number of law books in the col...

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Archive Print Collection

Dictionaries, early

Publication dates range from the 1606 Thresor de la langue française, by Aimar de Ranconnet, to the 1901 Dictionnaire de l'Académie française. A dozen or so of the dictionaries were published befor...

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Novello Cowden Clarke

1739-1966

The Novello Cowden Clarkes were a well known Anglo-Italian family of musicians, writers, artists, singers and actors, with a wide and influential literary and artistic circle. Based in London and lat...

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James Brown manuscripts and papers

Brown, James Clifford (1923-2004)

c.1933-2000

Comprises the manuscript notebooks, musical compositions, and associated printed works written and compiled by James Brown between the years 1933 and 2000, along with miscellaneous personalia and an a...

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Adrian Hastings, correspondence and papers

Hastings, Adrian (1929-2001); Hastings, Ann (1940-2008)

c.1943-2001

Comprises: (1) Boxes 1-4: his published writings; (2) Boxes 5-8: writings, press-cuttings, papers, and correspondence relating to his involvement in Bosnian affairs; (3) Boxes 9-18: miscellaneou...

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Cosmographia
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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