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Author: S. Guglielmo Choul
Item date: 1556
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Text complete, lacking folding plate and two leaves at end. Presented by John R Hetherington
Author: Iosepe de Sesse
Item date: 1619
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented by Arthur Gimson
Author: Mark Akenside
Item date: 1758
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 40
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Bound by Richard Montague for Thomas Hollis in gold-tooled green morocco with doublures of mottled calf. No other example of these bindings, which Hollis had put on books he presented to foreign libraries, is known in Britain. 40 was given by Arthur Gimson towards the purchase of the book
Author: Isaac Taylor and other family members
Item date: 19th century
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
13 of the volumes were not previously in BL. Presented by Miss AR Wilson of Ongar
Item date: 1903
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
A bound volume of Letters received by Curzon whilst in England between his two periods as Viceroy of India. Correspondents include Lord Ampthill and Francis Younghusband. Other books included Curzons own copy, with MS annotations of the programme for the Coronation Durbar.
Item date: 1180-1220
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 350
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Manuscript of 150 leaves possibly written for Beatrix first prioress of the Augustinian Priory on Iona
Item date: late 14th century
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 350
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
Only known Book of Hours to have been manufactured in Wales. May have been made for Issabella Godynogh at Caernarvon. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR
Author: Edmund Gibson, Bishop of London
Item date: 18th century
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 75
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Includes letters from Hickes, Strype, Tanner, Henchman Waterland and Philip Yorke
Author: Muin-i-Farahi
Item date: 1776
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Durham University Library
Town/City: Durham
Fasicle 3 only, written in Persian by an unknown scribe. Presented by GEL Carter on behalf of Mrs AD Peddie
Author: William Hardwicke
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 75
Institution: Shrewsbury Museum and Art Gallery
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
3 large folio vols and 3 small index vols containing about 1500 pedigrees