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Friends of the Nations’ Libraries, or FNL, awards grants for acquisitions to regional and national archives, libraries and museums. www.fnl.org.uk.

Christopher de Hamel talking about the Sarum Master Bible to a rapt audience. Courtesy of Salisbury Cathedral
Title page with handwritten text: ‘A pamflyt compiled of Cheese, contayninge the differences, nature, qualities, and goodnes, of the same’
Image of an opening of Caroline Herschel's handwritten autobiography. Caroline was sister of William Herschel. Images courtesy of the Herschel Museum of Astronomy in Bath, UK.
An opening of Euclid's Elements, printed in 1509 in Venice. The pages have wide margins which are full of annotations in Italian, both text and formulae, showing that it was a heavily used work of reference.
Picture showing a library reading room, with tables in the foreground, on one of which is an open book resting on a book cushion. There are glazed bookcases in the background. This is the special collections reading room of Senate House Library
Historiated capital - the letter B with a miniature figure of King David playing his harp (folio 259 v. Psalm 1). Image by Linda Sayce and courtesy of Salisbury Cathedral.
Detailed picture of the illumination on folio 585r. Apocalypse, with initial of St John as a medieval scribe, writing his Revelation. The image itself is tiny, about 2cm square! By Linda Sayce and courtesy of Salisbury Cathedral.
Detail of the 13th-century Bible illuminated by the Sarum Master.
Image of tweet by St Andrews University Library announcing the acquisition of the St Andrews Chronicle, with an image of the manuscript
A roll, partly unfurled revealing images of 10 swans with different ownership markings in black on their red beaks.
An image of two pages of Scott's manuscript of the Lay of the Last Minstrel.
The front cover of The Blavatnik Honresfield Library: saved for the nation, with image of Charlotte Bronte