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Musical examples all printed from woodblocks. Bought with John Dowlands Second booke of songs or ayres of 2,4 and 5 parts, with tablature for the lute or orpherian with the violl de gamba, 1600.

This is a handy ready reckoner for converting regnal years, used for dating most legal documents, to those of the Christain calendar. Only one other copy known of this edition, at Trinity Cambridge

Printed by Wynkyn de Worde, the first edition of the Missal to be printed in England. Bought with 23 other volumes: 5 Books of Hours, 3 Primers, 2 Breviaries, 2 Manuals, a Processional, a Portiforium, a Hymnal, 2Psalters, and 5 Missals

679 drawings in three albums, mostly of British subjects but some from his only trip to Italy in 1847, these are detailed sketches of the medieval buildings from which Pugin drew his own inspiration. Illustrated at p. 18 of AR

Includes maps by Josiah Ballard and William Deadman, which are both attractive and distinctive with much fine detail

Second edition of the Latin text, printed at Rome by Sweynheym and Pannartz. Has extensive marginalia in a fine humanist hand , chiefly place names

The section from 1557 to 1575 appears to have been written from contemporary knowledge. The author may have lived in Edinburgh and been a minor official at Court

Gunner was a childhood friend who made contact again late in life. The letters reveal much of Larkins political opinions. The collection also includes 31 letters and 22 carbon copies of letters from Gunner to Larkin. 250 of the grant was paid out of the Philip Larkin fund

Written five weeks before his death, Johnson writes to instruct Mrs White to wait on Strahan and collect three guineas for herself, Betsey Barber and Mrs Desmoulins. This is the only known letter to Mrs White, few Johnson letters to servants survive

Two thirds of the archive dates from before 1500 and represents one of the most significant collections of medieval deeds to survive for Lancashire.