No. 7, Music, reflects a very early personal interest in music. The European section starts with Greek music about 300 AD, with its core of musical notation from 9th to 15th c.
Collection 8, Law, is centred around the Magna Carta and the Statutes, but starts as early as c. 2050 BC with Ur-Nammu's law code, written 300 years before Hammurabi's law code.
Collection 12, Dead Sea Scroll materials, contains some stunning items. It is a rather small collection, with its c. 58 fragments from 12 Dead Sea Scrolls, but is listed here due to its importance and wide public interest.
No. 15, The binding and bookbox collection has the oldest leather binding in private hands, 4th c., MS 1804/1, and further over 60 medieval bindings, 11 of these are chained as well.
Collection 16, Seals, bullas and seal matrices, starts with about 150 Sumerian stamp seal matrices from 5th and 4th millennium BC from the former Erlenmeyer collection. Most important are about 400 English medieval private seal matrices, which is larger than British Museum's holdings of comparable materials.
The Nordic collection (no. 18) are the largest in private hands with some of the earliest MSS known.
Collections 20 -23 are the last special collections established. Central in the China collection are 3 complete scrolls on paper found in the Dun Huang caves on the Silk Road. The earliest of these is the Nirvana Sutra in Chinese, c. 625-650 AD, MS 2152. Further several luxury MSS in gold script on blue stained paper from c. 700 to 1400.
In 1998 the collection was strengthened by the acquisition of the entire Ekky Chung collection of over 300 volumes of MSS and early blockprinting, one of the 2 largest Chinese collections formed in the 2nd half of the 20th c.
The high quality collection of early literary blockprinting formed by Sören Edgren was subsequently acquired. There are now over 150 volumes of blockprinting from before Gutenberg in this section. The early blockprinting, starting in 770, and represented as complete books from c. 1050 onwards, is also considered as MS due to how they were made, and to all the MS additions and annotations.
Pre-Gutenberg movable type printing is also represented, MS 2923, printed in Korea 1438.