The Bentley Private Catalogue
One of 4 sets given to BL, NLS, Bodley and Cambridge. See full details in entry for BL
One of 4 sets given to BL, NLS, Bodley and Cambridge. See full details in entry for BL
Account Roll of Sir Richard Ingleby, Treasurer of Berwick, compiled 1557-60, and 3 account books recording in detail expenditure at Berwick on the military establishment, fortifications &c, 154
A collection of prayers and devotions written and illuminated, probably in France or the Low Countries, for Robert Blackadder, first Archbishop of Glasgow.
The manuscript contains a Psalter and Book of Hours and was made for a member of the de Bohun family.
Bound with Fitzherberts Surveyinge, 1546 nad A Treatise of householde, 1534, a translation of Xenophons Oeconomicus by Gentian Hervet.
Third English edition, imperfect but important for the woodcuts not found in the 1499 edition. Printed by Wynkyn de Worde. Illustrated as plate III of AR
Transcripts of rentals and custumals of manors in the barony of Lewes and other documents relating to Lewes, 1440, 1535-c.1635, compiled by John Rowe, a lawyer (d.1639).
The Book of Llandaff was the most valuable book of Welsh interest remaining in private hands; it was purchased together with a holograph revised translation of the Epistles to Timothy ...
Presented by Major Magnus Sandison
A vast archive of one of Kents great dynasties, providing a unique resource for researchers on a wide range of subjects from political and social to local history.
First edition, no other copy then known in a public library in Britain; illustrated as Plate I of AR
Presented with four other works on heraldry by Rev FC Clare