19 royal charters, 18 of which purport to be pre Conquest, (some written in Anglo Saxon) granted to the Benedictine Abbey of Sherborne in Dorset; also contains a number of Gospels and Collects. Illustrated as plate I of AR. Add MS 46487
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1225
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: 800
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1545
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: 47 10s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Translated from German; only known 16th century edition. Bound with Coverdales translation of Calvins A faythful and most Godly treatyse concerning the most sacred sacramet [sic] 1546? and an imperfect copy of William Turners The rescuynge of the Romishe fox 1545
Item date: 1496
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: 34 10s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Printed by F Baligault with fine impression of his device. Price paid includes Vinetum amenissimum by Petrus de Wylrodt
Item date: 1498
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: 31
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Only 1 other copy known
Item date: 1500-10
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: 34 10s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Price paid includes D Mancinuss De passione. Printed at Cologne, previously unknown author
Item date: 1555
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented to complete the Librarys copy of this Breviary by A Gimson
Item date: 1649
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Presented with various other works, including a 1730 edition of Paradise Lost in French, 7th edition of Johnsons Dictionary 1785 and a 1760 edition of Foxs Book of Martyrs, by FF Madan
Item date: 1602
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Translated into English by AMIR. Fine copy on vellum, presented by L McCormick-Goodhart
Item date: 1598-1610
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
In an embroidered six-way binding of a very rare type. Presented by A Ehrman with an unusual French binding of about 1510 (no. 54 in EP Goldschmidts Gothic and Renaissance Bookbindings.) Illustrated as plate II of AR
Item date: 1275
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: 50
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
The most valuable source for the topography and genealogy of Shropshire and the Welsh border for the Norman and Angevin periods. 225 leaves of parchment containing over 600 charters and documents; illustrated as plate III of AR