Manuscripts
9th-18th Century Manuscripts (MS 1-1221) Mediaeval manuscripts and collections of personal papers. | |
Musical and Liturgical Manuscripts Manuscripts on musical or liturgical themes. | |
Carew Papers (MS 596-638) Papers of Sir George Carew collected whilst he was President of Munster. | |
Bacon Papers (MS 647-662) Papers of Anthony Bacon, private secretary for foreign affairs to Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex. | |
Shrewsbury Papers (MS 694-710) Papers of the Earls of Shrewsbury, from the 15th to the 17th centuries. | |
Gibson Papers (MS 929-942) Papers belonging to Edmund Gibson, Lambeth Librarian and later Bishop of London. | |
Notitia Parochialis (MS 960-965) Parochial returns from 1500 incumbents to an enquiry into the value of benefices in 1705. | |
Secker Papers (MS 1118-1128, MS 1130, MS 1134) Correspondence and papers brought together by Archbishop Secker. | |
Greek Manuscripts (MS 1175-1207) Manuscripts collected during his visits to the East by J.D.Carlyle. | |
MS 1222...1860 Miscellaneous manuscripts acquired mainly between 1812 and 1970. | |
Selborne Papers (MS 1861-1906) Papers of Roundell Palmer, 1st Earl of Selborne, and members of his family. | |
MS 1907...2340 Miscellaneous manuscripts acquired mainly between 1958 and 1969, dating from the 13th to the 20th century. | |
MS 2341...3119 Miscellaneous manuscripts mainly acquired since 1968, dating from the 13th to the 20th century. | |
The Queen Anne Churches (MS 2690-2750) Papers of the Commission for the Building of Fifty New Churches, appointed by Act of Parliament in 1711. | |
MS 3120...3469 Miscellaneous manuscripts principally acquired since 1980, and dating mainly from 1660 onwards. | |
Talbot Papers (MS 3192-3206) Papers of the Earls of Shrewsbury, purchased by the Library in 1983. | |
Fairhurst Papers (MS 3470-3533) Correspondence originally located in Archbishop William Laud's study at the time of his imprisonment. | |
MS 3534...3598 Miscellaneous manuscripts acquired between 1988 and 1991, dating from the 13th to the 20th century. | |
MS 3599- Miscellaneous manuscripts acquired and catalogued since 1991, dating from the 12th century onwards. | |
Isaac Williams Papers (MS 4473-9) Papers of the leading Tractarian, Revd Isaac Williams. |

