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Author: Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, Lyon King of Arms
Item date: 1558
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Incomplete, wanting title and a number of other leaves, but only copy known to contain cancelled leaves O7-8. Presented by FS Ferguson

Author: Cardinal Pietro Bembo
Item date: 1539-43
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 350
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Sir Eric Miller gave 250 of the FONL grant. This exquisite example of fine italic script was bought with 3 other calligraphic manuscripts: J Ragona De artificiali memoria 1465; a miscellany of grammatical tracts, c.1480 and M Gualterius De re militari, late 15th century.

Author: Thomas Bewick
Item date: 1862
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

Extra illustrated. Inscribed by Jane and Isabella Bewick to William Mackey 1871. Presented by RW Hale.

Item date: 1671-1691
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: HM Customs and Excise Library
Town/City: London

Relate to customs revenues on French Spanish and other wines, Flanders lace etc. Presented by TS Blakeney

Author: Zachary Macaulay
Item date: 1807 - 13
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Trinity College, Cambridge
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire

Most of the letters contain exhortations and advice as to the boy's studies. Presented by John Ehrman

Item date: 1547-1883
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 27
Institution: Northamptonshire Record Society
Town/City: Northampton
County: Northamptonshire

900 documents mostly 17th and 18th centuries; valuable for the study of economic and agricultural history

Author: Peacham
Item date: 1612
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: 25
Institution: National Trust, Blickling Hall
Town/City: Bllckling
County: Norfolk

The Jacobean ceiling of the library at Blickling Hall has panels taken from this emblem book

Author: William Morris
Item date: 1881
Date acquired: 1957
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Stoke on Trent College of Art
Town/City: Stoke-on-Trent
County: Staffordshire

Lecture delivered at Burslem Town Hall. Printed at the Chiswick Press using Morris' Golden type. Presented by EJ Nicol

Item date: 1420-1440
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 750
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Bought with 7 other manuscripts; 66 full page miniatures, style deriving from Van Eyck and his successors. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR. Add MSS 49999 - 50005

Item date: 1199-1216
Date acquired: 1958
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Only Chartulary of the Abbey known to exist, the roll is over 20 ft in length and includes a catalogue of the library mentioning two books in English. Add MS 49996