Leaf from an Anglo-Saxon benedictional 920-970 (Add MS 89378)
Book of Hours, Use of York (‘The Percy Hours’) 13th cent (Add MS 89379)
Thomas Phillips (c1635-1693), surveyor and military engineer: map, 'The Plane of the Towne and Mole of Tanger Discovering by ye little square Dott's the Mines which were made in ye Upper and Yorke Castle and Round the Towne By ye Rt. Honble the Ld Dartmouth for its demolishment' 1683-1684 (Add MS 89443)
Lewis of Caerleon (d1495), Welsh physician and astronomer: collected astronomical and mathematical works c1485-1495 (Add MS 89442)
Association of Disabled Professionals: archive 1971-2015 (Add MS 89385)
John Donne (1572-1631), poet and clergyman: Melford Hall manuscript containing 131 poems 1620-1759 (Egerton MS 1384)
Susan Engel (b1935), actor: theatre papers and photographs 1957-2000 (Add MS 89420)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1859-1930), Knight, author, physician, criminologist: autograph manuscript ‘XIII/The Darker Side’, unpublished chapter from The Land of Mist 1925 (Add MS 89427)
Jane Austen (1775-1817), novelist: letter to her nephew James Edward Austen-Leigh (1798-1894) 1816 (Add MS 89437)
The 'Lucas Psalter', made in Bruges for an English patron and acquired by Thomas Houchon Lucas (1460-1539) of Suffolk, the secretary to Jasper Tudor and Solicitor General under Henry VII 1480-1490 (Add MS 89428)
Linda Grant (b1951), novelist and journalist: archive 20th cent (Add MS 89384)
George John Malcolm (fl 1847-1851), naval officer: private journal 1847-1851 (Add MS 89441)
Sidney James Alfred March (1883-1966), engineer: diary of a journey from London to China through Siberia 1910-1982 (Add MS 89430)
Alphonsus Joseph-Mary Augustus Montague Summers (1880-1948), literary scholar and occultist: letters 1927-1948 (Add MS 89440)
Sir Henry Frederick Ponsonby (1825-1895), Knight, army officer and private secretary to Queen Victoria: ms ‘Notes on the Battle of Waterloo' 1855-1860 (Add MS 89445)
Dorothy Leigh Sayers (1893-1957), author: 'Vogue of Detective Fiction', manuscript notes 1927-1928 (Add MS 89381)
Peter Schwed (1911-2003), American editor and publisher: correspondence with author P. G. Wodehouse (1881-1975) 1953-1974 (Add MS 89426)
Major Henry Sparke Stabb (1835-1888), 32nd Light Infantry: Anglo-Zulu War diary 1879 (Add MS 89439)
Sir Thomas Edwards-Moss (1874-1960), 3rd Baronet: ms 'Memoirs of Baron A', incl numerous pen and ink sketches 1915-1953 (Add MS 89400)
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