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April update from the Library and Record Centre

April 23, 2018by lampallib Leave a comment

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.  Every […]

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Announcements, Archives, Catalogues, CERC, Collections, Events, Exhibitions, Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, Printed Books

February update from the Library and Record Centre

February 9, 2018by lampallib Leave a comment

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.  Every […]

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Announcements, Archives, CERC, Collections, Events, Exhibitions, Printed Books

October update from the Library and Record Centre

October 17, 2016by lampallib Leave a comment

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.  Every […]

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Archives, Catalogues, CERC, Collections, Events, Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, Library Records
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August update from the Library and Record Centre

August 9, 2016by lampallib Leave a comment

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.  Every […]

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Archives, Catalogues, CERC, Collections, Events, Exhibitions

Friends of Lambeth Palace Library visits Summer/Autumn 2013

March 5, 2013by lampallib Leave a comment

The Friends of Lambeth Palace Library have just announced their Summer/Autumn 2013 programme of events. The programme includes visits to Bury St Edmunds, Spencer House and Lambeth Palace (including the Library), as well as […]

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Friends of Lambeth Palace Library visits Spring 2013

January 23, 2013by lampallib Leave a comment

The Friends of Lambeth Palace Library was founded in 1964 as a focus of support for the Library, and to help in adding to its collections for the benefit of […]

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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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