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In 2005 some of the largest (Newcastle, Portland, and D.H. Lawrence) were designated as being of outstanding national and international importance by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council. The University Library has been actively collecting manuscripts and archives from the 1930s, and there are now over 3 million items in over 600 archive and manuscript collections. There are also special collections of rare books and published works, many of which have overlapping connections with the manuscript collections.

• . Literary and liturgical manuscripts from the 12th to the 15th century, the subject of Heritage Lottery Fund and AHRC projects
• . Title deeds, wills, grants and charters dating back to the 12th century, and the 15th century ‘Rushall Psalter’
• . Large number of title deeds dating back to the 12th century, plus manorial papers, inquisitions, inventories, wills, pardons, cartularies, etc.
• . Title deeds, manorial records and surveys dating back to the 13th century
• . Title deeds, inventories, manorial papers etc., dating back to the 12th century
• . Title deeds dating back to the 12th century
• . Title deeds dating back to the late 13th century, and 15th-century rental and legal papers relating principally to the Manor of Cavill, Yorkshire
• . Title deeds dating back to 1296
• . 14th and 15th century compoti and miscellaneous medieval documents
• . Title deeds, manorial papers, inquisitions and legal papers, dating back to c.1250
• . Miscellaneous title deeds dating back to the 13th century
• . Title deeds dating back to the 14th century
• . Title deeds dating back to the 13th century

• , which contains facsimiles, early published volumes, editions of texts and antiquarian works

In addition to caring for its documents, Manuscripts and Special Collections has produced a series of online ‘Research Guidance’ pages giving advice for anyone wishing to consult archive material. Units of particular relevance to Medieval research are

Material relating to particular subjects can be scattered through the collections and difficult to locate, but the archivists will be glad to respond to enquiries and offer advice

Manuscripts and Special Collections is is located at King's Meadow Campus.