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Item date: 1250
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: 500
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Manuscript on vellum, 96 leaves written in a small gothic hand in red and black with intials in red, green and blue. Add MS 50754

Author: Louis XIII nad Marie de Medici
Item date: 1610-12
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented by TS Blakeney together with autograph draft of a letter by William Paley. Add MSS 50785, 50789

Author: Johannes Fabricus Bolandus
Item date: 1546
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Presented with two other books in 16th century French bindings, Poetical Works of the Strozii and Catois disticha, 1577 by Mrs & Mrs Albert Ehrman. They also gave a large collection of rubbings of bindings by Roger de Coverly

Author: John Rastell
Item date: 1519
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

50 given by Arthur Gimson. The only known copy of the first edition of the first English abridgement of the Laws

Author: Jacques Michelet
Item date: 1615
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Presented by WL Wood together with Goldsmith & Parnell Poems 1795, JD Bordona Manuscritos con Pinturas, 1933 and a 17th century Manuscript of the Kuran in Arabic script with decorated panels bound in contemporary red morocco

Author: Anon
Item date: 1649
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh

Presented by Major Magnus Sandison

Author: Sir James Thornhill
Item date: 1717
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Victoria & Albert Museum
Town/City: London

92 pages with 3 full page drawings. Mostly notes of pictures seen in the great collections in Paris with notes on sale prices of some of them

Item date: 1514-17
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: 125
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London

The first polyglot Bible; it marks the beginning of modern biblical scholarship

Author: Austin Dobson
Item date: not given
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: 100
Institution: University of London
Town/City: London

Almost 300 letters written to Dobson by a large number of correspondents including Trollope, Kate Greenaway, Laurence Binyon, George Saintsbury and EV Lucas

Author: AE Housman
Item date: 1875-1901
Date acquired: 1961
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: University College London
Town/City: London

20 long letters written from London, Oxford and the Continent. Presented by John Carter