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Personal and working papers of Dame Frances Amelia Yates, historian, 1899-1981, including diaries, family documents, notes, working papers, lectures, articles, books, reviews, correspondence and photographs. Topics covered include: Influence of Italy and Italian on English Life, Humanism; Academies; Hermetic Tradition; Occult Philosophy; Neoplatonism; Enlightenment; Shakespeare, Ramon Llull; Giordano Bruno and Art of Memory.

Personal documents and working material of Gertrud Bing, c 1892-1964, including visitors' books, diaries, family tree, editor's copies, correspondence and photographs. Topics covered include Aby Warburg's Biography and the history of the Warburg Institute.

Notes, working papers and correspondence of the art historian Otto Kurz, c 1930-1975. Topics covered include: the Baroque, notably the painters Guido Reni, Carracci; faked art; critical edition of Marco Polo's 'Description of the World'; Christian manuscripts; 'Die Legende vom Künstler' (Historiography); astrological manuscripts; Eastern astrology; cultural history of material goods; costume and Jewish Art.

Papers of Robert Eisler, c 1902-1949, including working papers and correspondence. Topics covered include: 'Das Rätsel des Johannesevangeliums'; The Fourth Gospel; Money; Jesous Basileus ou Basileusas; Slavonic Joseph Manuscript; The Alphabet; Dürer; Conventional Titles and True Meaning; Inscriptions; Zeus Olympios; Orpheus; Moses; Christ Vision; Aesthetics; Mythology; Magic and Science; Vanity of Vanities; Palaeoethnography; Greek Civilization and 'Die Landschaftsmalerei in der antiken Kunst'.