Lambeth Palace Library and the Church of England Record Centre regularly embark on new projects and acquire and catalogue new material, from rare books and manuscripts to modern publications. These posts […]
Mr Cliff Webb writes: There was a growing movement from the early 19th century to publish inexpensive books of a religious nature suitable for children. Some were stories which illustrated […]
Mr Cliff Webb writes: The Library is naturally always interested in securing any correspondence of Archbishops of Canterbury. I have recently acquired two letters of Randall Davidson, written when he […]
The extract of music today comes from Lambeth Palace MS 457 and consists of four poems with music. As well as studying verse and notation, it will also allow us […]
Lambeth Palace Library and the Church of England Record Centre regularly embark on new projects and acquire and catalogue new material, from rare books and manuscripts to modern publications. These posts […]
Provenance is a tool by which to establish both the general history of a written work and the individual history of a specific volume; where visible, it may illustrate aspects […]
Today’s piece comes from MS 75 the French Apocalypse here at Lambeth palace, a 13th century work full of illuminated images depicting the end of days More images can be […]
The recent Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms: Art, Word, War exhibition at the British Library gave visitors the chance to see two of the pre-Conquest treasures of the Lambeth Palace Library. MS 218 […]
A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke : set downe in forme of a dialogue: diuided into three parts. The first teacheth to sing, with all things necessarie for […]
The project to complete the recataloguing of Arches series Eee has made good progress, especially in identifying plaintiffs and defendants and in recording names and details of witnesses. Twelve volumes […]
