Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875), geologist: scientific notebooks 1874-1875 (Coll-203 // SC-Acc-2019-0120)
Matsuyama (fl 1721), artist: Japanese illustrated manuscript entitled Buko Setsugekka ('Beautiful Military Exploits'), a guide on how a samurai gets dressed, with hand drawn and coloured illustrations on fine paper, accompanied by poems and descriptions in Japanese calligraphy 1721 (Coll-1848/19-0104 // SC-Acc-2019-0104)
Palm-leaf manuscript collection, from Sri Lanka, probably Buddhist works in the Pali language, collected by Nigel Seeley (1942-2004), forensic scientist and Head of Conservation at the National Trust 18th-19th cent (Coll-1970 // SC-Acc-2019-0107)
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