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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

Author: Princess Charlotte
Item date: 1811-14
Date acquired: 1960
Grant Value: 30
Institution: Royal Pavilion
Town/City: Brighton
County: East Sussex

284 pieces for Piano collected by the Princess, only child of George IV, with a pen drawing by her of couples dancing as frontipiece. Small oblong quarto, bound in blue staight-grained morocco, gilt

Item date: 1069-1076
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: 500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

By the charter, the grantor Waleran FitzRanulf gives to the Abbey of St Stephens Caen the church of Bures St Mary in Suffolk. Signum of the Conqueror considered to be genuine and not a later forgery. Illustrated as frontispiece of AR. Add Charter 75503