Imperfect, wanting title page, with many hand painted coats of arms. Acquired with John Logans Anologia Honorum, 1677; donor unrecorded
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: 1678-9
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: ?Presented
Institution: National Library of Wales
Town/City: Aberystwyth
County: Ceredigion
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
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: 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
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Winchester Cathedral
Town/City: Winchester
County: Hampshire
12th century stamped leather binding executed at St Swithins Priory, one of only 3 such bindings known. Presented by C W Dyson Perrins
Item date: 1852-1921
Date acquired: 1947
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Norwich Castle Museum
Town/City: Norwich
County: Norfolk
Presented by DAJ Buxton
Item date: 1648
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 200
Institution: Royal Library, Windsor Castle
Town/City: Windsor
County: Berkshire
This volume comprises about half of all the letters written by Charles I from his prison on the Isle of Wight, mostly concerning his attempts to escape
Item date: 1506
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 137 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
12th century satirical poem: an animal epic referred to in Chaucers Nuns Priests Tale. Bought with 7 other early printed books
Item date: 1514
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 137 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Bought with 7 other early printed books
Item date: 1517
Date acquired: 1948
Grant Value: 137 15s
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
First Latin translation of the late Alexandrian attempt to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphics; bought with 7 other early printed books