Search FNL grants since 1931

Includes a Bull of Innocent III, the earliest record of the foundation of the Priory. Add MS 43972; illustrated as plate III of AR

Earliest printed account of Abyssinia; illustrated as plate IV in AR

Includes Loudons holograph diary 1762-63 written during his command of the British army in Portugal. Add MSS 44063-84.

3 letters purchased one further presented by Lt Gen Sir Gerald F Ellison, now all Add MS 44061

One of only 2 copies extant (the other is now at the Huntingdon Library) 3 leaves lacking, supplied in facsimile. Presented by WA Marsden, illustrated at plate IIb in AR

Presented by Sir George Hill together with 6 other early printed books in fine bindings

Collection of moral tales first published in French in 1556. Only one other perfect copy known. Presented by Sir Leicester Harmsworth

Compiled by a German monk, in its original chained binding of beech boards covered with doe skin; presented by ES Lamplough together with a volume of notes for a sermon in the hand of Philip Henry, 17th century nonconformist divine

Copied from John Ogilbys Britannia, 1675, the first road atlas of England and Wales. Presented by ES Lamplough; illustrated as plate VI b in AR. Add MS 44087

Lent for 5 years by L McCormick-Goodhart. Illustrated as plate VII of AR. In 1945 this was converted to an outright gift to mark VE Day. Add MS 46132, ff.1, 21