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Item of Interest: Hidden Treasures

June 7, 2018by lampallib Leave a comment

The latest Item of Interest post comes from Alexandra Wade (Preservation Project Assistant), who tells us about the treasures that have been uncovered during conservation work being carried out on […]

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Item of Interest: The Incorporated Church Building Society.

April 26, 2018by lampallib Leave a comment

This month’s Item of Interest post was written by Vida Milovanovic (Archives Assistant) and celebrates the 200th anniversary of the Incorporated Church Building Society and its connection with Lambeth Palace Library. […]

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Item of Interest: A mediaeval ‘whodunnit’ – the death of Llywelyn ap Gruffudd

January 29, 2018by lampallib Leave a comment

This month’s Item of Interest post by Clare Brown (Archivist), tells a story of mediaeval murder recounted through manuscripts. This small vignette from the St. Alban’s Chronicle (MS 6, f. […]

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Item of Interest: Crisis at Christmas – 50th Anniversary

December 20, 2017by lampallib Leave a comment

This poignant Christmas-themed Item of Interest comes from Emily Rumble (Archives Assistant at Lambeth Palace Library), who is exploring the historic link between the Archbishop of Canterbury and the charity […]

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Item of Interest: the H. H. Willmore Collection

December 8, 2017by lampallib Leave a comment

Today’s Item of Interest post comes from Lizzie Hensman, Archive Assistant at the Church of England Records Centre (CERC), who will be talking about the collection of Henry H. Willmore […]

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Item of Interest: “A radiant Trail of Hair”

November 24, 2017by lampallib Leave a comment

This month’s Item of Interest post comes from Assistant Archivist Tom Kennett. One of the most intriguing and unexpected items to be found amongst the manuscripts at Lambeth Palace Library […]

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Item of Interest: Home Words and Homely Dogs

October 13, 2017by lampallib Leave a comment

This month’s Item of Interest post comes from former library intern Alex Keane, who has sniffed out a shaggy dog tale. Within the Lambeth Palace Library collections, there are countless […]

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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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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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