Grants awarded in 1974

18 grants for 1974.

Galat. Roman Pastoral imitde Cervantes

Birmingham Archives and Heritage Service: The Library of Birmingham

Fine large paper copy bound in contemporary red morocco gilt with the four magnificent proof plates engraved by Cazenare and Colibert

Letters

British Library

First edition, presented by John Ehrman

Manuscript correspondence

Christ Church, University of Oxford

Wakes library and some papers were bequeathed by him to the College.

Manuscript Marlborough Statute Book

Wiltshire & Swindon History Centre

Main contents are the statutes of the realm, from Magna Carta to the early 14th century, about equally divided between Latin and Anglo-French, with a list of weights sealed in the guildhall at Marl

The Blackadder Prayerbook

National Library of Scotland

A collection of prayers and devotions written and illuminated, probably in France or the Low Countries, for Robert Blackadder, first Archbishop of Glasgow.

Blackadder prayerbook. FNL grant 1974. Courtesy of National Libary of Scotland.

Three autograph letters, two to W Marshall, one to Dear Willy

The Ruskin, Lancaster University (grant awarded to The Ruskin Galleries, I of Wight, and that collection is now owned by The Ruskin).

Two letters to W Marshall appear to have been addressed to the architect of the extensions Ruskin made to Brantwood. Other recipient unknown

Windsor Forest Plea Rolls

Royal Berkshire Archives (formerly Berks Record Office)

Records fines levied for offences against tge Forest Law such as the unauthorised taking of venison or timber.