13c music for the Office of St Edmund King and Martyr
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 […]
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Archbishop Parker and the recovery of Old English
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. Thomas Morley
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 […]
Court of Arches series Eee project report
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 […]
Manuscripts in the Anglo-Saxon Kingdoms
Two Library staff attended an exciting and ground-breaking conference held at the British Library on December 13th and 14th, 2018. The British Library represents one of the world’s leading centres […]
MORE WORKS ON DUELLING
One of the more curious books held in the Lambeth Palace Library collection is entitled ‘The only approved guide through all the stages of a quarrel: containing the royal code […]
Henry and the Tides of Time
The latest blog post comes from Arendse Lund, a doctoral candidate at UCL, who will spend 6 months at Lambeth Palace Library cataloguing the legal manuscripts as part of a […]
John Selden on duelling
There have been many books written over the years regarding the art of duelling and fencing, from the Walpurgis manuscript circa 1300, now held at the Royal Armouries, Leeds, through […]
Item of interest: “Healing by spiritual means” – The Guild of Health
This month’s item of interest by David Thomas (Library Assistant), looks at the early history of the Guild of Health. Today, we are used to hearing about the importance of […]
THE END OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR
“It is almost impossible to believe that when a fortnight ago I was dictating here, we were not only vehemently at war, but almost everybody believed that we should be […]
