First Latin translation of the late Alexandrian attempt to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics; bought with 7 other early printed books
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1517
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 137 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1524
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 137 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Printed in Venice; early Italian version of the popular medieval legend of Barlaam and Josaphat; bought with 7 other early printed books
Item date: 1525
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 137 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The only copy known; bought with 7 other early printed books
Item date: 1541
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 137 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Hitherto unrecorded; bought with 7 other early printed books
Item date: 1725
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 137 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Only 2 other copies known; no earlier collection of Irish melodies then known and only 1 Scottish. Purchased with a collection of 7 early printed books. Illustrated as plate II of AR
Item date: 1725
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 137 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Only 2 other copies known of this important collection; bought with 7 early printed books and the Aria di Camera in this year
Item date: 1480
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 50
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Printed by Benedictus Genuenis. 50 given by Arthur Gimson
Item date: 1715
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Presented with Antiquitates Christianae, London 1702-3 by Rev F Conquest Clare
Item date: 13th century
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: 50
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
Peter de Bending owned property in Kent; illustrated as plate IV of AR
Item date: 1810
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: 27 2s
Institution: National Portrait Gallery
Town/City: London
Only authenticated portrait of Austen known. Illustrated as Plate V of AR