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Item date: 690 - 716
Date acquired: 1937
Grant Value: 200
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

The Ceolfrid Bible. Fine English unical writing. Illustrated as plates II and III of AR. Total price raised through FONL in private donations. Add MS 45025

Author: Rev Thomas Bankes
Item date: 1790
Date acquired: 1936
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Dr Williams's Library
Town/City: London

Folio with 60 engravings; presented by Mrs LM Boulton

Item date: 1862-1920
Date acquired: 1936
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Southampton University
Town/City: Southampton
County: Hampshire

Presented by the St Bride Institute

Author: St Bede
Item date: 12th century
Date acquired: 1936
Grant Value: 30
Institution: Durham Cathedral
Town/City: Durham

With 14th century fore edge paintings of Oswald Cuthbert & Aidan, amongst the earliest known examples of this form of decoration; illustrated as plates Ia and Ib of AR

Author: William Camden
Item date: 1600
Date acquired: 1936
Grant Value: 31 12s
Item cost:
Institution: Westminster Abbey
Town/City: London

Extra illustrated with 168 painted coats of arms in margins, possibly authors own copy

Author: Theophilus Gale
Item date: 1669
Date acquired: 1936
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Dr Williams's Library
Town/City: London

Contains rare 5th vol of 1678, presented by Mis FM Cameron

Author: William Burnaby
Item date: 1700, 1708
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

2 plays presented by FW Bateson

Author: Linnaeus, translated by Benjamin Stillingfleet
Item date: 1775
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

3rd edition, presented by Basil Soulsby

Author: Thomas Johnson
Item date: 1758
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire

2 vols presented by Major V Seymer

Author: James Boswell
Item date: 1768
Date acquired: 1931
Grant Value: Presented
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London

Given with 79 other 18th & 19th century works by Major V Seymer