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Scope and Contents The papers and correspondence of Samuel Hartlib, educationalist, natural philosopher and polymath of the seventeenth century.The archive, which includes copies of his own letters as well as those sent to him by others, represents the greater part of extant Hartlib material. The seventeenth century was a period of rapid scientific and philosophical development, as well as of social, religious and political crisis, and the Hartlib Papers, as well as providing important insights...

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A collection of medieval manuscripts and incunabula (books printed up to the year 1500).

The manuscripts include a twelfth-century Psalterium and a thirteenth-century charter. Among the incunabula is a French Book of Hours from 1494 and Hartmann Schedel´s "Nuremberg Chronicle" from 1493.

For a full list of items please see the external documents section below.

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A collection of books on the history of medicine. The books range in date from the early 16th century to the early 20th century, all bearing the somewhat macabre Innes Smith bookplate. There is a strong bias towards medical biography.

For further details of this collection, please see the listing in the External Documents section below.

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A collection of 198 bibles from the personal library of Oliver Aveyard Beckerlegge dating from the 15th to the 20th centuries.

For a further details of this collection please see the listing in the external documents section below.