Presented with 4 other items of theological interest by JE Yerbury
Henry Grey, Earl of Kent, was one of two principal commissioners for the execution of Mary, Queen of Scots.
This manuscript contains the earliest known translation into English of any work by the great humanist scholar and reformer, Desiderius Erasmus (d.1536).
This is an ‘office copy’ of the letter, written by one of Locke’s amanuenses, Locke being careful to keep a record of both sides of his correspondence.
Manuscript roll of seven vellum membranes, England c,1340, containing both the earliest surviving English ordinary of arms, with 589 painted shields, and the oldest roll of arms for Scotland on th
A series of nine account books, complementing the large collection of Corbett family estate papers already held at the Record Office.
Printed by William Caxton 24 March 1479. A religious treatise on the mutability of the world and the certainty of death. One of only three perfect copies known
July 1817 saw two deaths – of Jane Austen (1775-1817), an English novelist with a solid but relatively modest success, and of Mme de Staël (1766-1817), a long-standing superstar of pan-European int
Includes letters from Blanche Patch, Shaws secretary and Charlotte Shaw.
Presented by Theodore Besterman; no other details given. Add MS 45413
On 21 November 2019, with generous assistance from the Friends of the National Libraries, the National Library of Wales purchased at auction a small group of letters of the
Record of Slinns business, including a scrapbook half bound in green leather containing letters of thanks and admiration for his work from the Sitwells and a catalogue of the exhibition of his bind