A hitherto unknown late medieval manuscript on vellum containing fourteen different types of decorative alphabets, ranging from simple letters in Gothic script to large coloured anthropomorphic initials, and two sets of different types of borders.
Search FNL grants since 1931
Item date: c.1500
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £20,000
Item cost: £600,000
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
Item date: c. 1270-80
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £10,000, and a donation of £5,000 from a private benefactor made to the Library through the Friends of the National Libraries
Item cost: £226,187
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
The oldest surviving English Roll of Arms, containing 324 coats of arms arranged in 54 rows, painted on a green background, six shields to a line, representing about one-quarter of the English baronage at the time of its composition. The knight's name is written above most of the shields.
Item date: 1690-1974
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £500
Item cost: £1,637
Institution: West Yorkshire Archive Service
Town/City: Leeds
County: West Yorkshire
Family and business records of John Shaw and Sons, woollen manufacturers, of Brookroyd Mills, Stainland.
Item date: 12th-20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £72,000
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
The records of a Warwickshire landed family extending over 800 years, comprising a large number of medieval deeds, including significant numbers for the estates of Bordesley Abbey; estate and household account books from 1662 to the 20th century; and over 2,000 items of correspondence, including
Item date: 12th-20th century
Date acquired: 2007
Grant Value: £15,000
Item cost: £150,000
Institution: Warwickshire County Record Office
Town/City: Warwick
County: Warwickshire
The bulk of this large family archive consists of deeds of the family estates, centered on Warwick and Lillington, dating from the 12-19th centuries.
Item date: c.1670
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £4,000
Item cost: £85,000
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
Piero Cavalli was the foremost Italian opera composer of the mid-17th century, and Erismena was first performed in Venice in 1655. The present MS, dating from c.1670 and in its original goatskin binding, contains the text in English translation.
Item date: 1857-80
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £7,500
Item cost: £58,750
Institution: Bodleian Library
Town/City: Oxford
County: Oxfordshire
132 letters from Samuel Palmer to Richard Redgrave (1804-88), painter and founder of the Etching Club; his wife Rose (1811-99); their daughters Frances (1845-1932) and Evelyn (1849-1942); and his brother Samuel Redgrave (1802-76), art critic and civil servant.
Item date: 1263-1944
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £10,000
Item cost: £150,000
Institution: Hertfordshire Archives Service
Town/City: Hertford
County: Hertfordshire
Ralph Radcliffe, a Lancashire gentleman, bought the Carmelite Priory of Hitchin shortly after its surrender in 1539, and the family subsequently amassed a considerable estate in North-West Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire The archive includes over 200 medieval title deeds, court rolls, rentals, su
Item date: 19th - 21st centuries
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £7,000
Item cost: £175,000
Institution: Glasgow University Library
Town/City: Glasgow
The Glasgow firm of Templeton/Stoddard was the most important manufacturer of high-quality carpet in the British Empire.
Item date: 1554
Date acquired: 2008
Grant Value: £1,631
Item cost: £6,075
Institution: Flintshire Record Office
Town/City: Hawarden
County: Flintshire
Grant by Queen Mary I of lands in northern Flintshire to John David ap Griffyn ap Llewelen, 9 May 1554, with an initial portrait miniature of the Queen.