Thomas Bradwardine, Archbishop of Canterbury, died of the Black Death in 1349. His book on geometry, illustrated throughout with remarkable marginal diagrams, is thought to be the first printed book on mathematics by an Englishman.
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Item date: 1495
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 25,350
Institution: Lambeth Palace Library
Town/City: London
Item date: 1946-69
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 1,000
Item cost: 4,200
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire
Five letters from Margaret Florence (Stevie) Smith to Dr Polly Hill, and 13 drawings by Stevie Smith to illustrate The Frog Prince, published in 1966.
Item date: 1970s to c. 2000
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,000
Institution: Hull University Archives, Hull History Centre
Town/City: Hull
County: Yorkshire
This collection comprises proofs of the AUTHOR's short stories and letters. It joins the larger part of the Markham Archive, first purchased by Hull University Archives in 1996.
Item date: 12th - 2oth centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 20,000
Item cost: 456,000 (tax remission)
Institution: Cambridge University Library
Town/City: Cambridge
County: Cambridgeshire
The Hengrave Hall Manuscripts represent one of the finest surviving Tudor archives. They comprise the papers of the Kytsons (or Kitsons), Gages and Rokewoods, whose main seat was Hengrave Hall in Suffolk.
Item date: 16th to 19th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 7,000
Item cost: 70,000
Institution: Suffolk Record Office
Town/City: Ipswich
County: Suffolk
The collection represents the East Anglian portion of the working library of heraldic and genealogical manuscripts collected from the 1960s onwards by Miss Joan Corder of Ipswich.
Item date: 12th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 15,000
Item cost: 1,760,000 (tax remission)
Institution: Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent Archive Service
Town/City: Lichfield
County: Staffordshire
The Sutherland Papers are the archive of the Leveson-Gower family, successively Earls Gower, Marquesses of Stafford and Dukes of Sutherland. Their former home in Staffordshire was Trentham Hall, designed by Sir Charles Barry and demolished in 1911.
Item date: 12th to 20th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 69,000 (tax remission)
Institution: Shropshire Archives
Town/City: Shrewsbury
County: Shropshire
The collection fills 250 boxes and conatins material from the 12th to the 20th centuries, including nearly 800 medieval deeds relating to Lilleshall Abbey, Wombridge Priory, Shrewsbury Abbey and their estates.
Item date: 17th and 18th centuries
Date acquired: 2005
Grant Value: 1,692
Item cost: 1,692
Institution: Royal Society
Town/City: London
The Royal Society contains a fine library of early scientific books and manuscripts.
Item date: 1591
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 5,000
Item cost: 421,444 (tax remission)
Institution: British Library
Town/City: London
This is one of the most important keyboard music manuscript from 16th century England. It is the earliest of four surviving MSS of this time, the others being those of Thomas Weelkes and Will Forster (BL) and the Fitzwilliam virginal book (Cambridge).
Item date: 1795
Date acquired: 2006
Grant Value: 500
Item cost: 1,800
Institution: National Library of Scotland
Town/City: Edinburgh
Roget (1779-1869), best known for his Thesaurus, studied medicine at Edinburgh University. In 1795, he toured the Highlands with his uncle (Sir) Samuel Romilly, the lawyre and reforming politician.