34 grants for 2015.
Sir Joseph Banks (1743–1820) was the most important botanist of the 18th and early 19th centuries and a close contemporary of William Herschel. He accompanied Captain Cook on The Endeavour on
This 15th-century Latin manuscript Psalter (with some added German vernacular prayers) from the convent of Medingen is a new addition to the corpus of surviving manuscripts from the Cistercian conv
Gertrude Jekyll (1843-1932) was one Britain’s most influential garden designers.
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.
A rare first edition of Albertus Magnus’ De meteoris, printed in Venice by Reynaldus de Novimagio, 24 May 1488, a folio of 98 leaves with seven woodcut diagrams.
Mrs Minnie Catherine Burton (née Duckett) was born in Folkestone, Kent, in 1876. She married her second husband in 1914, the British archaeologist and photographer Harry Burton (1879-1940), w
The Jabberwock was a literary journal at the University of Edinburgh in the 1940s and 1950s, at a key moment in the Scottish literary renaissance. This collection, compiled by the editor Ian
The Muriel Spark archive is one of the largest held by the National Library of Scotland.
This is Magdalen College Library's most significant purchase in recent decades, a volume containing all the major works of the English lutenist and composer John Dowland (1563?–1626), namely:
This important record of the Pre-Raphaelite artists has remained with May Gaskell’s descendants, consists of more than 200 letters dating from 1892 up to the year of Burne-Jones’s death: three albu
These two letters from Richard Cobden to Charles Pelham Villiers and Michael Corr Van der Maeren provide an important insight into Cobden’s political views and will be of great interest to 19th cen
Thomas Thirlby (circa 1500-1570) was the one of the last generation of Tudor bishops who were also diplomats in the service of the state.
A rare and poignant autograph letter written by Austen's sister, Cassandra, in the days following the author's death.
Queen Mab, Shelley’s first major published poem, is part fairy tale, part political treatise, and totally enthralling.
As the most substantial and significant of the John Ryland's Library’s visual collections, photography has been identified as a priority area for collecting when opportunities arise and funding per
An early twentieth-century edition of ‘The Romaunt of the Rose’ by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The silver seal-die of the Providence Island Company, an English chartered company founded in 1630 to establish a colony on Providence Islands (Nicaragua). The seal was made in London around 1630.
The family of Stourton had associations stretching back to 11th century with the place of that name which was the centre of its estates in Wiltshire, Somerset, and Dorset.
This survey, illustrated with maps, was made for Thomas Lennard, Lord Dacre, by Samuel Crouch, who described himself as ‘the meanest of his lordship's domestick servants’.
This volume provides a full survey of the estates of William Richardson in 1774, including a perambulation of the Manors of Rogate Bohunt and Clarks Dean.
The letter is a testimonial of Georgiana Morson, a matron at Urania Cottage, the home for 'fallen women' that Dickens established with the wealthy philanthropist Angela Burdett-Coutts.
Hugo Williams’ archive consists of the manuscripts of all his writing in poetry and prose: twelve volumes of poetry, two travel books and his journalism for the ‘Freelance’ column in The Times Lite
The purchase of this substantial archive relating to John William Dunne (1875-1949) was a major priority for the Science Museum.
An early fifteenth-century illuminated missal following the use of the diocese of York.
A portion of the Norton Conyers archive was sold to the British Library in 2003 but the Grahams retained family papers and those relating to their estates in Yorkshire.
The Harrison & Seel archive consists of photographs, drawings, sketchbooks and miscellaneous items (press cuttings, magazines, copies of the official guide and other paper documents, as well as
The Royal Asiatic Society acquired the papers of Thomas M
Ms Jo Elsworth writes: Oliver Messel (1904-1978) was an English artist and one of the foremost stage designers of the late 20th century.
When the already famous poet Rupert Brooke died on the eve of the battle of Gallipoli, his personal papers were divided between his two executors: his mother, and his friend Sir Edward Marsh.
Dr Ulrike Hogg writes: The National Library of Scotland is immensely indebted to the Friends of the National Libraries for their generous grant
This was the last book of poems Lawrence saw published in his lifetime.
The volume was described thus in the sale catalogue: 'Donne, John. XXVI Sermons. London. 1661. Contemporary calf, rebacked. Folio (11 1/8 x 7 in.; 283 x 178 mm).
