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Item of Interest: A local perspective – parish magazines, their writers and readers

September 22, 2017by lampallib 1 Comment

This month’s Item of Interest post comes from Niamh Delaney (Library Assistant), who has been working on the parish magazines collection. Thanks in large part to the generous donations of […]

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‘Faith seeking understanding’: Finding Saint Anselm at Lambeth Palace Library

September 30, 2016by lampallib Leave a comment

Today marks the launch of the second year of The Community of Saint Anselm, a community of prayer, theological reflection and service, based at Lambeth Palace and established by Archbishop […]

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The Broughton Missal: Online

July 1, 2016by lampallib 1 Comment

One of our most important acquisitions of recent years, the Broughton Missal, has now been digitised and is now online. It is a rare surviving manuscript of the text and music […]

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History of Sion College Library, part III

March 18, 2015by lampallib Leave a comment

Recession and inflation in the 1970s hastened Sion’s long standing financial problems.  In May 1975 Sion decided to sell books again in order to raise capital.  This sale was not […]

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History of Sion College Library, part II

March 11, 2015by lampallib Leave a comment

Although the library’s building survived the bombings of the First World War, it did not emerge unscathed.  By the end of the war the College found itself in a position […]

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History of Sion College Library, part I

March 4, 2015by lampallib 1 Comment

Thomas White, Vicar of St. Dunstan in the West, left provisions in his will for the founding of Sion College and an almshouse in 1624.  As his executors, Thomas Wood […]

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Secker 2 f. 232

Early Modern Archbishops’ Papers Project 2

January 16, 2015by lampallib Leave a comment

Dr Richard Palmer reports on further work to re-catalogue the early modern Archbishops’ papers. In recent weeks seven volumes of papers of Thomas Secker, Archbishop of Canterbury 1758-68, were catalogued […]

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Archbishop Tait (1811-1882)

The Papers of the Archbishops of Canterbury

September 5, 2014by lampallib Leave a comment

One of Lambeth Palace Library’s core roles is as the official archive of the Archbishops of Canterbury, managing the preservation of, and access to, records created by the administration based […]

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A Tale of Two Churches

January 10, 2014by lampallib Leave a comment

St Paul’s Church, Bow Common, has recently won an architectural award for best modern church, awarded by the National Churches Trust. Reading this while thinking about a subject for a […]

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Recently Catalogued Archives

April 10, 2013by lampallib Leave a comment

Lambeth Palace Library staff have catalogued a range of archive material in recent months. Descriptions of this material are now available in the online archives catalogue. They include: Over 1,100 speeches […]

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Today's #TinyTuesday: 'A summarie of the chronicles of England... continued unto this present yere of Christ, 1598' by historian and antiquarian John Stow. [[ZZ]1598.28] #rarebooks #librariesofinstagram #specialcollections #bookbinding #parchment
We don't mean to point the finger, but this #manicule looks a little strange to us! It is one of many that a #reader has left in the #margins of our copy of ‘Libellus ysagogicus Abdilasi’, a #Latin translation of a 10th century work by the #astrologer Al-Quabisi. This edition was produced in #Venice in 1485 by the early German #printer Erhard Ratdolt and clearly found an enthusiastic owner. #maniculemonday #manicules #printing #marginalia #provenance #rarebooks #specialcollections #incunabula #earlyprintedbooks #astronomy
Today we commemorate Valentinus, Martyr at Rome, who died #OnThisDay in 269 AD. The saint's feast day became associated with courtly love during the high medieval period, and #ValentinesDay⁠ ⁠is now celebrated in many regions around the world. This #woodcut of Valentinus from the Nuremberg Chronicle, 1493 [[ZZ]1493.1] #valentines #valentine #valentinesday2019 #woodcuts #incunabula #rarebooks #saint #librariesofinstagram #nurembergchronicle #otd
For #woodcutwednesday, two ornamental head-pieces from ‘Histoire générale de la Chine’, a late 18th century history of China based largely on the writings of the Confucian scholar, Xi Zhu (1130-1200). The book was printed in Paris as a monumental 13-volume set complete with hand-coloured maps of the country and decorated with these charmingly bucolic little scenes [B75.4/M87] #China #chinesehistory #countryside #rurallife #woodcut #woodcuts #history #rarebooks #printing #librariesofinstagram #specialcollections
This colourful wyvern comes from a #manuscript #Psalter produced in the mid-13th century for the use of #York [Sion L40.2/L2] #monstermonday #manuscriptmonday #manuscript #wyvern #dragon #monster #illuminated #illuminatedmanuscripts #illuminatedmanuscript #medievalmanuscript #manuscripts #archivesofinstagram #librariesofinstagram
Mary Queen of Scots was executed #OnThisDay in 1587. In 2008 Lambeth Palace Library purchased the only surviving contemporary copy of the royal warrant ordering her death. Robert Beale, Clerk to the Privy Council, was responsible for bearing the warrant to the commissioners who were instructed to “repair to our Castell of Fotheringhaye where the said queene of Scottes is in custodie and cause by your commaundement execution to be don uppon her person”. This copy, signed by Mary’s cousin Elizabeth I, was delivered by him to Henry Grey, 6th Earl of Kent, one of the two commissioners tasked with organising the #execution. It was accompanied by a covering letter which is also now part of the Lambeth collections. [MS 4769] #MaryQueenofScots #marystuart #QueenElizabeth #history #royalty #queen #elizabethi #Scotland #otd #archivesofinstagram #deathwarrant #queenofscotland #manuscript

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