Grants awarded in 1995

Translation into Latin of the Scottish mathematicians Astronomique discours, printed probably at Geneva by Jean de Tournes.

Hitherto unknown and unpublished verses Faded Delia four quatrians written on one side of a single leaf.

The book may in fact have been bound in Newcastle since the only other known example of the particular insect roll used on this binding is on a book printed in Newcastle.

The only work printed by Giacomo Ruffinelli at Perugia, and the only known edition of Rastellis contribution to the reform of the outdated Julian Calendar, which by the 16th century was 10 days in

This catalogue represents the basis of the Societys library, formed by Britton in 1853; he used this MS catalogue to persuade William Cunnington III to sell his collection of Wiltshire antiquities

George Lawson bequeathed his library to the living at East Harsley in 1725, where it remained until rescued from the vicarage attic in 1976 after the death of an incumbent and it was taken to York

One of the most important and extensive family archives from the West Riding of Yorkshire.

14 deeds relating to property in the area of Newland in the Forest of Dean; they help to reveal the areas early development with much topographical information, personal names, occupations and rela

Elgar was first Peyton Professor of Music in the University of Birmingham. The collection of 59 diaries comprises 10 by Elgar, 33 by his wife Alice and 16 by their daughter Carice.

Many documents concerning Admiral Sir Robert Brice Kingsmill (1730 - 1805) and his nephew John Woodham, later Sir John Kingsmill of Hermitage Park, Dublin.

One of the most famous literary exchanges of the 19th century.

As well as maps, plans, and factors accounts there are several groups of important correspondence.

453 letters, 121 letters to Newton, the remainder mainly to Bull, a Congregational Minister at Newport Pagnell.

Just over 250 letters written during the last 30 years of Landseers life to his friend and patron William Wells of Redleaf, Kent.

An archive of outstanding importance for the study of the pre-Raphaelite movement and of British 19th century art in general.

The earliest written example yet known of an English fairy story for children.

Beattie was Alexander Gerards pupil and successor at Aberdeen. His lectures are particularly well documented through his own diary and student notes.

A unique unpublished witness to the Syon Abbey requiem offices; it includes the liturgy used at the death bed of the Nuns and the offices of the dead include obits for Henry V, Edward IV and their

A coloured map, commissioned by Ralph Sheldon, founder of the tapestry works at Barcheston.

Many of the papers relate to the Bowreman family who held the manor from the 1390s to 1792

3,000 manuscript title deeds, 450 dating from before 1600, court rolls, rentals surveys and plans of the estate.

Over 8,000 architectural prints, mostly 19th century: steel and copper engravings, and lithographs, predominantly issued loose, i.e. not cut out of books.

Gerard was Professor of Moral Philosophy and Logic in Marischal College, Aberdeen.