February update from the Library and Record Centre

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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 provide a brief update on some of our latest acquisitions, projects and upcoming events, to keep you up-to-date with our most recent news.

New books!

Enjoy reading one (or more!) of our recently acquired new books. Highlights include:

The accidental Anglican: the surprising appeal of the liturgical church, by Todd D. Hunter (Nottingham: Inter-Varsity Press, 2011). More information and reviews available here.
Anglican baptismal liturgies, edited by Phillip Tovey (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2017). More information available here.
An Anglican covenant: theological and legal considerations for a global debate, by Norman Doe (Norwich: Canterbury Press, c2008). More information and reviews available here.
The Anglican imagination: portraits and sketches of modern Anglican theologians, by Robert Boak Slocum (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017). More information available here.
Anglican women on church and mission, edited by Kwok Pui-Lan, Judith A. Berling and Jenny Plane Te Paa (Norwich: Canterbury, 2013). More information available here.
Archbishop William Sancroft: a cross-grained life, by John Tiller (Donnington: Shaun Tyas, 2019). More information available here.
The beauty of holiness: the Caroline divines and their writings, edited by Benjamin Guyer (London: Canterbury Press Norwich, 2012). More information available here.
The Bible in the life of the church, edited by Clare Amos (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2013). More information available here.
Brokering the Good Friday Agreement: the untold story, edited by Mary E. Daly (Dublin: Royal Irish Academy, 2019). More information available here.
The Canons of the Third Lateran Council of 1179: their origins and reception, by Danica Summerlin (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020). More information available here.
Cardinal Basil Hume: a pilgrim’s search for God, by Gertrude Feick (Leominster, Herefordshire: Gracewing, 2019). More information available here.
Chaplains in early modern England: patronage, literature and religion, edited by Hugh Adlington, Tom Lockwood, Gillian Wright (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2013). More information available here.
Christ in all things: William Temple and his writings, by Stephen Spencer (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2015). More information available here.
Debating the sacraments: print and authority in the early Reformation, by Amy Nelson Burnett (New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
The discipline of intimacy: the joy and awe of walking with God, by Charlie Cleverly (Colorado Springs: David C. Cook, 2019). More information available here.
Elizabeth I: translations, 1592-1598, edited by Janel Mueller and Joshua Scodel (Chicago; London: University of Chicago Press, 2009). More information available here.
Firmly I believe: an Oxford Movement reader, by Raymond Chapman (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2006). More information and reviews available here.
For sinners only: the book of the Oxford Groups, by A.J. Russell ([S.l.]: Bottom of the Hill Publishing, 2014). More information available here.
George Whitefield: the first transatlantic revivalist, by Nigel Scotland (Oxford: Lion Books, 2019). More information available here.
Grasping the heel of heaven: liturgy, leadership and ministry in today’s church, edited by Aidan Platten (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2018). More information available here.
Happiness and holiness: Thomas Traherne and his writings, edited by Denise Inge (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2008). More information available here.
A heart strangely warmed: John and Charles Wesley and their writings, edited by Jonathan Dean (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2014). More information available here.
The immortal commonwealth: covenant, community, and political resistance in early reformed thought, by David P. Henreckson (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
Irish Anglicanism, 1969-2019: Essays to mark the 150th anniversary of the disestablishment of the Church of Ireland, edited by Kenneth Milne and Paul Harron (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 2019). More information available here.
John Henry Newman and the path to sainthood, by Julien Chilcott-Monk (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2010). More information available here.
John Owen between orthodoxy and modernity, edited by Willem van Vlastuin, Kelly M. Kapic (Leiden: Brill, 2019). More information available here.
The making of a Tory evangelical: Lord Shaftesbury and the evolving character of Victorian evangelicalism, by David Furse-Roberts (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Publications, 2019). More information and reviews available he re.
Medieval Londoners: essays to mark the eightieth birthday of Caroline M. Barron, edited by Elizabeth New and Christian Steer (London: University of London Press, 2019). More information available here.
Middle English devotional compilations: composing imaginative variations in late Medieval England, by Diana Denissen (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2019). More information available here.
Nuns’ literacies in medieval Europe: the Antwerp dialogue, edited by Virginia Blanton, Veronica O’Mara, and Patricia Stoop (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017). More information available here.
Part of the one church?: the ordination of women and Anglican identity, by Roger Greenacre; edited by Colin Podmore (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2014). More information available here.
Patient reading/reading patience: Oxford essays on medieval English literature, by Ralph Hanna (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2017). More information available here.
A point of balance: the weight and measure of Anglicanism, edited by Robert Boak Slocum and Martyn Percy (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2013). More information available here.
The practical mystic: Evelyn Underhill and her writings, edited by Raymond Chapman (London: Canterbury Press Norwich, 2012). More information available here.
Religion around John Donne, by Joshua Eckhardt (University Park, Pennsylvania: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
Religion around Mary Shelley, by Jennifer L. Airey (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania State University Press, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
Renewing the face of the earth: a theological and pastoral response to climate change, by David Atkinson (Norwich: Canterbury, 2008). More information available here.
Richard III: the self-made King, by Michael Hicks (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019). More information available here.
Sacred and secular martyrdom in Britain and Ireland since 1914, by John Wolffe (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
Unbelievers: an emotional history of doubt, by Alec Ryrie (London: William Collins, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
The wills of our ancestors: a guide to probate records for family and local historians, by Stuart A. Raymond (Barnsley: Pen & Sword Family History, 2012). More information available here.
Wonder beyond belief: on Christianity, by Navid Kermani (Cambridge: Polity Press, 2019). More information available here.
Worship-shaped life: liturgical formation and the people of God, by Ruth Meyers and Paul Gibson (Norwich: Canterbury Press, 2010). More information available here.

Please note that since October 2019 Lambeth Palace Library is closed on Fridays. This is to give the staff time to prepare the collections for the move to the new library building. Opening hours are now 10am to 5pm on Tuesday and Wednesday, and 10am to 7.30 pm on Thursday. Additionally, 30th April 2020 will be the last day that the Lambeth Palace Library reading room will be open and also the last day that the Church of England Record Centre reading room will be open before the opening of the new building in early 2021. There might also be a delay in answering some types of enquiries.

Magazines and journals

Lambeth Palace Library also collects a variety of magazines and journals. You are very welcome to visit the Reading Room to consult these too. Some of our recently received titles include:

ABTAPL Bulletin
Anglican and Episcopal History
Archives: the journal of the British Records Association
Bible Lands
Crucible: the journal of Christian social ethics
Churchman
Ecclesiastical Law Journal
English Historical Review
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Families Worldwide
Franciscan
Journal of Paper Conservation
Theology

We also receive the following papers and magazines weekly:

The Church of England Newspaper
Church Times
The Tablet
TLS (The Times Literary Supplement)

Upcoming events

Dr Nicholas Fisher: ‘Bishop Symon Patrick (1626-1707) – unsung hero of the Restoration Church of England’.

Thursday 26 March, 6pm (admittance from 5:30pm)

In 2018, Nick Fisher was the first recipient of a Lambeth doctorate after the scheme had been rebranded ‘Lambeth Research Degrees in Theology’. His thesis explored the writings and career of Symon Patrick from Rector of St. Paul’s, Covent Garden, to Bishop of Ely. This illustrated talk will explore the religious tensions of Charles II’s reign and suggest that Patrick’s contribution to the national Church has been unjustly neglected.

All are welcome, but those wishing to attend should book a free ticket at https://nickfisherlambeth.eventbrite.co.uk, or email melissa.harrison@churchofengland.org not later than Friday 20 March.

Day conference on the seventeenth-century book collector Richard Smith (1590-1675) and his library.

Wednesday 27 May (further details to follow)

Speakers will include Peter Lake, Jason Peacey, Andrew Foster, Vanessa Harding, David Pearson, Alan Nelson and Kenneth Fincham.

Professor Alan Nelson (University of California, Berkeley): ‘The Books of Henry Bradshawe, nephew of the regicide’.

Tuesday 2 June, 5:30pm (admittance not before 5pm)

The name of Henry Bradshawe, and the family seat in Marple, Cheshire, in the seventeenth century, are familiar to bibliographers and to the book trade. According to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, John Bradshawe the regicide, being childless, bequeathed ‘all my Law Bookes,’ along with books ‘on divinity, history and other books’ to his nephew Henry, who maintained the family library until his death in 1698. This traditional account is an extreme simplification of the true story, which must start with the realization that books from the Bradshawe family library carry the ownership signatures of at least four Henry Bradshawes. Books from the library are scattered across the English-speaking world.

In association with the University of London research seminar on the History of Libraries. All are welcome, but those wishing to attend should book a free ticket at https://alannelsonlambeth.eventbrite.co.uk, or email melissa.harrison@churchofengland.org not later than Friday 29 May.

Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, followed by a lecture by Professor Richard Gameson: ‘Codex and Colour: the pigments of Lambeth Palace manuscripts’.

Thursday 18 June, 2:30pm (admittance not before 2pm)

One of the most striking aspects of medieval manuscripts is their ravishing colours. Scientific advances mean that it is now possible, using non-invasive techniques, to identify the pigments that were used to produce the illuminations in question. This lecture will report the findings from recent investigations of illuminations in Lambeth Palace Library, explaining the processes that were used, summarising the pigments that were identified, and contextualising them within broader patterns of medieval and renaissance painting.

This meeting, open to Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, will be followed by tea. Friends should book in advance with Melissa Harrison, Lambeth Palace Library, melissa.harrison@churchofengland.org or telephone 020 7898 1400.

New Library update

The Library project continues to progress to time and budget and is now approaching completion with key systems being commissioned ahead of handover at the end of April.

From June to the end of the year we’ll be moving in the collections – which will finally bring under one roof (with solar panels on top!) all of the archives of the National Church Institutions that are currently stored in far less than ideal conditions in both Lambeth Palace and the Record Centre in Bermondsey. We’ll have more information as the year progresses about the closure of the Record Centre and among other things the move of the Records Management team to Church House.

The New Library was listed as one of ‘Five buildings to watch out for in 2020′ in the Architects’ Journal. You can read the article online here.

The images below show some great views of the New Library, captured recently by drone:

2020 Getting ready to move!

Lambeth Palace Library and Church of England Record Centre – Collections and People Migration Project

Already into the new year and we have kick started preparations for moving teams and the collections into our lovely new building! The new library is at commissioning stages with a handover date of April 20th, and we are on target to move in soon after. A great deal has been achieved in terms of collection management and care, including cleaning, boxing over 35,000 items and finishing off preservation tasks for collections held in Morton’s Tower and CERC; as well as organising and mapping collections in readiness for a move starting around early June 2020 and finishing with the Great Hall collection being moved in October-November 2020.

Luciana Marques, Preservation Project Assistant; and Alison Day, Archivist- both seen lifting, condition checking and boxing large vellum bound manuscripts currently stored in the Audience Chamber in Morton’s Tower

CPD event for library and archive teams on an Introduction to the History and Preservation of Historic Photographs ending with a curator led tour of the V&A Photography Centre

Fiona Johnston, Conservator and Arianna Mangraviti, Preservation Project Assistant assessing the cleaning and packing needs for our gold finishing hand-tools

Image of a watermark found on conservation papers in the current conservation studio

Fiona and Maria organising our conservation papers for the new studio

Maria Martinez Viciana, Preservation Project Assistant, attempting to delaminate a heavily water damaged parchment manuscript for the legal team to see specific details

Archive news

The vast majority of the papers from Archbishop Robert Runcie’s time in office (1980-1991) have now been catalogued and made publicly available. Significant progress is also being made with the appraisal and cataloguing of the papers of Archbishop George Carey. A range of other material has also been catalogued, such as small manuscript accessions relating to the Church Lads Brigade, Bishop Hensley Henson and the author Kathleen Bliss.

Recent archive accessions have included further material from the Community of St Andrew, an Anglican religious order founded in 1861. Discussions with some other potential donors are ongoing, but no new material will be considered in 2020 because of the needs of the library move.

The discovery of a translation of Tacitus as being by Elizabeth I, which is contained in the library manuscript MS 683, was the subject of a great deal of media coverage: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/royally-adorned This manuscript has been digitised and is available on the library’s online image gallery:
http://images.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/luna/servlet/s/mn624k

A large number of glass plate photographs of cathedrals taken by a Reverend Mann (MS 5180-5184), dating from around 1900, were also recently added to the image gallery.

Newly catalogued items

Among our newly catalogued rare books is a work that complements the Library’s already strong collection of twentieth-century private press editions of biblical texts. The Psalter or Psalms of David from the Bible of Archbishop Cranmer (Mile End: Essex House Press, 1902) is one of 250 copies ‘edited from the Cranmer Bible of 1540’ and contains woodcut initials and decorations designed by the editor, Janet Ashbee. The Essex House Press, founded in 1898 by C. R. Ashbee after the death of William Morris, was intended as a successor to Morris’s Kelmscott Press and employed some of his former staff. Essex House captured the sentiment of the Arts and Crafts movement and became one of the most successful private presses of the era, producing more than 70 titles.

Another recent accession now available in the online catalogue is The Little Library (London, c.1868), a charming group of miniature Religious Tract Society works which are housed in their own decorated box. There are ten titles in all, each consisting of eight pages of text in their original orange paper covers: Lucy and Her Rose-Tree; The Cottage Child; The Busy Bee; The Marys of the Bible; The Two Sisters; Obey Your Parents; The Holy Day; Rosa and Frank; Speak Kind Words; The Little Boy’s Faith. Acquired with the support of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, these ten join a further 28 titles from the Little Library series which were presented to the Library by Mr Cliff Webb.

Don’t forget – you can also keep up-to-date with our news and events, and enjoy glimpses of some of the treasures in our collections, by following us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Christmas update from the Library and Record Centre

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Merry Christmas from
the Library and Record Centre!

New books

Enjoy reading one (or more!) of our recently acquired new books. Highlights include:

100 churches, 100 years, edited by Susannah Charlton, Elain Harwood and Clare Price (London: Batsford, 2019). More information available here.
Anglican Catholicism: unchanging faith in a changing world, by Fr Jonathan Munn (London: Anglican Catholic Church – Diocese of the United Kingdom, 2017). More information and reviews available here.
Anglican women novelists: Charlotte Brontë to P.D. James, edited by Judith Maltby and Alison Shell (London: T&T Clark, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
Armsbearing and the clergy in the history and canon law of western Christianity, by Lawrence G. Duggan (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019). More information available here.
Being human: bodies, minds, persons, by Rowan Williams (London: SPCK, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
The case for liturgical restoration, edited by Joseph Shaw; preface by Raymond Cardinal Burke (Brooklyn, NY: Angelico Press, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
Charles at seventy: thoughts, hopes and dreams, by Robert Jobson (London: John Blake, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
Converting Britannia: evangelicals and British public life, 1770-1840, by Gareth Atkins (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019). More information available here.
Costly Communion: ecumenical initiative and sacramental strife in the Anglican Communion, edited by Mark D. Chapman, Jeremy Bonner (Leiden: Brill, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
The desecularisation of the city: London’s churches, 1980 to the present, edited by David Goodhew and Anthony-Paul Cooper (London: Routledge, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
The divine office in Anglo-Saxon England, 597-c.1000, by Jesse D. Billett (London: Published for the Henry Bradshaw Society by the Boydell Press, 2014). More information available here.
Dynastic politics and the British reformations, 1558-1630, by Michael Questier (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
English alabaster carvings and their cultural contexts, edited by Zuleika Murat (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019). More information available here.
English aristocratic women and the fabric of piety, 1450-1550, by Barbara J. Harris (Amsterdam: Amsterdam University Press, 2018). More information available here.
Eternal light: the sacred stained-glass windows of Louis Comfort Tiffany, by Catherine Shotick; with an essay by Elizabeth De Rosa (Lewes: Richard H. Driehaus Museum, Chicago, in association with D. Giles Limited, 2019). More information available here.
Fight valiantly: evil and the devil in liturgy, by Tom Clammer (London: SCM Press, 2019). More information available here.
The invention of the emblem book and the transmission of knowledge, ca. 1510-1610, by Karl A.E. Enenkel (Leiden: Brill, 2019). More information available here.
John Henry Newman: a very brief history, by Eamon Duffy (London: SCPK, 2019). More information available here.
The landscape of pastoral care in thirteenth-century England, by William H. Campbell (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018). More information available here.
A man of one book?: John Wesley’s interpretation and use of the Bible, by Donald A. Bullen (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2007). More information and reviews available here.
Politics, religion and ideas in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Britain: essays in honour of Mark Goldie, edited by Justin Champion, John Coffey, Tim Harris and John Marshall (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2019). More information available here.
Priests de la resistance!: the loose canons who fought fascism in the twentieth century, the Revd Fergus Butler-Gallie (London: Oneworld, 2019). More information available here.
The promise of Anglicanism, by William L. Sachs and Robert S. Heaney (London: SCM Press, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
Protestant pluralism: the reception of the Toleration Act, 1689-1720, by Ralph Stevens (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
A rite on the edge: baptism and christening in the Church of England, by Sarah Lawrence (London: SCM Press, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
Rood screens, by Richard Hayman (Oxford: Shire Publications, 2018). More information available here.
Ships of Heaven: the private life of Britain’s cathedrals, by Christopher Somerville (London: Doubleday, 2019) More information and reviews available here.
St Albans Cathedral wall paintings, by M.A. Michael (London: Scala, 2019). More information available here.
Thomas Fuller: discovering England’s religious past, by W.B. Patterson (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
Travels with a primate: around the world with Robert Runcie, by Terry Waite (London: SPCK, 2019). More information and reviews available here.
A vicar in Victorian Norfolk: the life and times of Benjamin Armstrong (1817-1890), by Susanna Wade Martins (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
Westminster Abbey: a church in history, edited by David Cannadine (London: Yale University Press, 2019). More information available here.
Who is my neighbour?: the global and personal challenge, edited by Richard Carter and Samuel Wells (London: SPCK, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
Who’s buried where in London, by Peter Matthews (Oxford: Bloomsbury Shire, 2017). More information and reviews available here.

Magazines and journals

Lambeth Palace Library also collects a variety of magazines and journals. You are very welcome to visit the Reading Room to consult these too. Some of our recently received titles include:
Church Archaeology
Churchman
Ecclesiastical Law Journal
Ecclesiology Today
The Friends Quarterly
Historical Research
The Huguenot Society Journal
Journal of Ecclesiastical History
Journal of Religious History, Literature & Culture
Modern Believing
Parliamentary History
The Prayer Book T oday
Privacy & Data Protection
Reformation
Royal Historical Society Transactions

We also receive the following papers and magazines weekly:
The Church of England Newspaper
Church Times
The Tablet
TLS (The Times Literary Supplement)

Please note that since October 2019, Lambeth Palace Library is closed on Fridays. This is to give the staff time to prepare the collections for the move to the new library building. Opening hours will be 10am to 5pm on Tuesday and Wednesday, and 10am to 7.30 pm on Thursday.

Upcoming events

‘Bishop Symon Patrick (1626-1707) – unsung hero of the Restoration Church of England’

Dr Nicholas Fisher
Thursday 26 March, 6pm (admittance from 5:30pm)

All are welcome, but those wishing to attend should book a free ticket at https://nickfisherlambeth.eventbrite.co.uk, or email melissa.harrison@churchofengland.org not later than Friday 20 March.

Day conference on the seventeenth-century book collector Richard Smith (1590-1675) and his library

Wednesday 27 May (further details to follow)

Speakers will include Peter Lake, Jason Peacey, Andrew Foster, Vanessa Harding, David Pearson, Alan Nelson and Kenneth Fincham.

The Books of Henry Bradshawe, nephew of the regicide

Professor Alan Nelson (University of California, Berkeley)
Tuesday 9 June, 5:30pm (admittance not before 5pm)

Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, followed by a lecture by Professor Richard Gameson: ‘Codex and Colour: the pigments of Lambeth Palace manuscripts’

Thursday 18 June, 2:30pm (admittance not before 2pm)

New Library update

The project remains on time and on budget, and detailed planning for the move is taking place. The scaffolding is coming down on the whole building, with the front elevations now clearly visible.

View of the Library from Lambeth Bridge

Internally, all shelving units have been installed and the installation of timber bookcases in the Reading Room is also nearing completion.

Shelving units installed

View from inside the east wing Reading Room

Externally, the landscaping works for the Palace are progressing with the brick features and extensive soft landscaping. This will continue into 2020 and will include extensive planting and a wetland habitat. The external landscaping works on Lambeth Palace Road will commence in January 2020 with remodelling of the footpath immediately outside the site (with pedestrian access maintained at all times).

External facade and wetland area

Library staff enjoyed visits to the site in November to view the latest progress of the build.

The new Library offers spectacular views of the surrounding area, a few glimpses of which can be seen below:

View from the seminar room

Knight Harwood have been running workshops for children at The Evelina Children’s Hospital, as part of the project’s commitment to engaging with the surrounding community. In their latest workshop, on 27th November, patients enjoyed building their versions of the new Lambeth Palace Library out of Duplo and Lego, with the help of the developers from Knight Harwood, teachers from Evelina Hospital School and play specialists. Children and young people, aged 18 months to 13 years old, had a perfect view of the new library, which is being built just across the road from Evelina Hospital, inspiring them to construct their own versions of the building. The full article can be read here on Evelina Hospital’s website, and the children’s designs are on display in front of Evelina Hospital School.

The results of one of Knight Harwood’s workshops with the Evelina Children’s Hospital

Archive news

A large amount of material has continued to be digitised and made available through the Library’s online image gallery. Recent highlights include a range of manuscripts from Sion College (best opened in Chrome):
http://images.lambethpalacelibrary.org.uk/luna/servlet/s/223kgv
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Sion L40.2L7 f.13r

An English translation of Tacitus’ Annals (MS 683) held by the Library and dating from c.1600 was the subject of an article in the Times Literary Supplement: https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/royally-adorned/ and other press coverage regarding corrections made by Elizabeth I. The volume has also been fully digitised.

MS 683 f.2r

The Library’s archive collections have featured heavily in some recent publications:
https://www.authorhouse.com/en/bookstore/bookdetails/794245-the-cowley-fathers-in-philadelphia
https://www.palgrave.com/gb/book/9783030271299

Appraisal and cataloguing work continues on the papers of Archbishop George Carey. In addition a range of other material has been catalogued, such as archives of the Nikaean Club, the Liturgical Commission, the Joint Liturgical Group and Lord Wharton’s Charity, and papers of various 19th century Archbishops of Canterbury, Henry Evington, Bishop of Kyushu, and correspondence regarding the Book of Common Prayer (1928).

Staff have hosted a range of visits, ranging from academic institutions such as the Open University and Royal Holloway (University of London) to professional groups such as notaries public.

Lambeth Palace Library and Church of England Record Centre Collection and People Migration Project

Teams are getting-ready for the big move next year to the new Lambeth Palace Library site at the end of the Lambeth Palace Garden, which is due for handing over in April 2020. In the meantime, planning has been working towards scheduling the move of people and collections across the year 2020; and finishing-off some of the final mapping (where things are going in the new building) and protection (cleaning, boxing etc) of collections. Activities have included clearing out old kit and equipment (a few skips worth!) both at CERC and LPL; and over 34,000 boxes being made for books moving across to the new library, which also included cleaning them all!

Next steps are working through protection needs for CERC, finishing off Morton’s Tower and ending with protection of the most vulnerable collections in the Great Hall. Exciting times ahead as next year is a busy move year for us with all Library and Record Centre staff being involved in some aspect of move supervision for collections, kit and equipment.

Don’t forget – you can also keep up-to-date with our news and events, and enjoy glimpses of some of the treasures in our collections, by following us on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Christmas update from the Library and Record Centre

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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 two months, we post here a brief update on some of our latest acquisitions, projects and upcoming events, to keep you up-to-date with our most recent news.

Happy Christmas from all the staff at Lambeth Palace Library and the Church of England Record Centre!

Our Christmas opening times can be viewed here – we reopen after Christmas on Tuesday 2nd January. The online catalogues of both Lambeth Palace Library and the Church of England Record Centre (including our image database) can be searched via our website at any time.

Library Advent Calendar!

Join us on Facebook for the final days of our Library Advent Calendar, as we open a door every morning onto a different Christmas scene from our collections. Find our Facebook page here or follow the hashtag #LPLAdventCalendar.

This month’s new books!

Some highlights from our most recently acquired new books include:

Church history: an introduction to research methods and resources, by James E. Bradley & Richard A. Muller (Grand Rapids: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016). More information and reviews available here.
Experiences of charity, 1250-1650, edited by Anne M. Scott (Farnham: Ashgate, 2015). More information available here.
The friaries of medieval London: from foundation to dissolution, by Nick Holder (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017). More information available here.
The history of England’s cathedrals, by Nicholas Orme (Exeter: Impress Books, 2017). More information and reviews available here.
Joan, the fair maid of Kent: a fourteenth-century princess and her world, by Anthony Goodman (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017). More information and reviews available here.
Luther on the Christian life: cross and freedom, by Carl R. Trueman (Wheaton: Crossway, 2015). More information and reviews available here.
Mastering Christianity: missionary Anglicanism and slavery in the Atlantic world, by Travis Glasson (New York; Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2012). More information and reviews available here.
Medieval anchorites in their communities, edited by Cate Gunn and Liz Herbert McAvoy (Cambridge: D.S. Brewer, 2017). More information available here.
The Oxford history of Anglicanism: vol. V (Global Anglicanism, c.1910-2000), edited by William L. Sachs (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018). More information available here.
A parson in wartime: the Boston diary of the Reverend Arthur Hopkins, 1942-1945, edited by Patricia and Robert Malcolmson, with Ann Stephenson (Woodbridge: The Boydell Press, 2017). More information available here.
Reading the Bible in the Middle Ages, edited by Jinty Nelson and Damien Kempf (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2015). More information and reviews available here.
Thomas Aquinas: a historical and philosophical profile, by Pasquale Porro (Washington, D.C.: The Catholic University of America Press, 2016). More information and reviews available here.
Witchcraft, the devil, and emotions in early modern England, by Charlotte-Rose Millar (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017). More information and reviews available here.

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Upcoming events

Dr David Starkey: ‘Henry VIII and Luther: A Reappraisal’

Tuesday 6 February, 5.15pm (admittance not before 4.45pm)

David Starkey is the author of important books on Henry VIII and the Tudor court and is well known as a regular contributor to both radio and television. In association with the University of London seminar on the Religious History of Britain 1500-1800. All are welcome, but those wishing to attend should book a free ticket at www.davidstarkeylambeth.eventbrite.co.uk, or email juliette.boyd@churchofengland.org not later than Friday 2 February.

An evening with the Library’s conservators, with an opportunity to view the conservation studio and discuss techniques and treatments with the Library’s conservation staff

Thursday 19 April, 6pm-7.30pm (admittance not before 5.45pm)

Tickets £15 per head (£10 for Friends of Lambeth Palace Library), to include a glass of wine. Numbers will be limited. Please note that the conservation studio is reached by a medieval spiral staircase. Friends and guests are welcome, but please book in advance with Juliette Boyd, Lambeth Palace Library, juliette.boyd@churchofengland.org or telephone 020 7898 1400, not later than Friday 13 April.

News from the Archives

Newly-catalogued collections include papers of Derrick Sherwin Bailey (1910-84) [MSS 5124-5126], a clergyman who served on the Church of England Moral Welfare Council, dealing with issues of sexual ethics. He gave evidence to the Wolfenden Committee for its report on homosexuality, published in 1957. The material complements existing collections, including records of the Moral Welfare Council at the Church of England Record Centre.

The Library also received the kind gift of an impression of the Vicar General’s seal, belonging to Archbishop Laud, recovered in digging the foundations of London Bridge in 1827, and presented by Viscount Melville to Archbishop Howley in 1830. It was formerly owned by Walter Money, the noted historian, antiquarian and archaeologist.

The Friends of the Library purchased an unpublished treatise dating from c.1660 by an unnamed female writer [MS 5121] and a manuscript of three tracts from George Morley (d. 1684), Bishop of Worcester [MS 5122]. The Friends are also funding a further project to enhance catalogue descriptions to the records of the Court of Arches.

Further blog posts included information on the archive of P arish and People relating to movements for change in the 20th-century Church. The archive of the Council on Foreign Relations featured in the Church Times. The Library was used for filming for David Starkey’s ‘Reformation: Europe’s Holy War’. The Church of South India marked its 70th anniversary; the Library holds records relating to its inception in 1947. Events of interest to Library users include the Reformation London symposium and an exhibition at Fulham Palace, former home of the Bishops of London. Other useful resources, complementing sources in the Library relating to the Great War, include a digitised index of army chaplains from 1914-18 at the Museum of Army Chaplaincy.

Uncovering the history of books in the Sion College collection

The Sion College Library collection is more discoverable than ever before as we have continued to add records to our online catalogue. Along the way we are gaining some fascinating insights into the histories of some of the books in the collection. Interesting discoveries of monastic books have recently been made, including an edition of Giuseppe Simone Assemani’s (1687-1768) Kalendaria ecclesiae universae (A82.0/AS7), which was printed in Rome in 1755. Originally intended as a twelve-volume set, only six volumes were produced which were translated from Latin into Greek. The text examines the Church calendar and Slavic Christian Saints, but the provenance of this copy is particularly intriguing. Woodcut armorial bookplates appear on the endpapers of each volume along with a red armorial ink stamp on the half-title pages, evidence that the book once belonged to Kloster Muri (“Monasterii Murensis”), a Benedictine Cloister located near Muri in Aargau, Switzerland, that was abolished in 1841. From here it appears to have travelled to the nearby Aargauische Kantonsbibliothek (indicated by the red stamp), eventually forming part of Sion College’s holdings.

Provenance of a more domestic nature appears in a collection of Lent-sermons, Quadriga salutis. Two early 18^th century inscriptions were left by William Baker marking the birth of two of his children, who were named after their parents, Mary and William. It is not uncommon for significant family events to be found recorded in this way within a family Bible or on the flyleaves of another treasured book. They provide a useful document through which we can build an intimate picture of different households, charting their expansion and their unfortunate contraction following the passing of relatives. In this instance they also give us a charming insight into the possible accents and pronunciations used by the individuals, some of the text here being written out phonetically:

“Mary Douglas of William and his wife, bourn ys th. 12th dey of Jan:ry helf anower before 12 of ye clock mid time a day” (A67.3a/C24 08,).

“No[vem]b[e]r 15th 1717 Will son of Will Baker and Mary his wife was bourne at 3 of ye clock in ye morning” (A67.3a/C24 19).

Robert Beverley Jr. (ca. 1667-1722) was an historian of early colonial Virginia, as well as a planter and political figure. His most notable work is his History and Present State of Virginia, published originally in London in 1705, which documents the history of early life in the colony. This French translation held in the Sion collection was printed in Amsterdam in 1707 and is an unmatched source for the Virginia of its time with sections on Native Americans, politics, flora, fauna, and agriculture (B81.10/V81B). The book also has a noble provenance, containing the bookplate of Ludwig Rudolph (1671-1735), Duke of Braunschweig-Lüneburg and Prince of Wolfenbüttel.

Other significant owners are also coming to light as we explore the Sion collection. A recent exciting find was the armorial binding of the Royalist Sir Nicholas Crisp (1599?-1666), with his gilt stamped arms appearing on Saint Thomas Aquinas’ Diui Thomae Aquinatis doctoris angelici Opera omnia (A51.2/Aq5).

The stamp was added to the Sion Provenance Project and we were subsequently contacted by the British Armorial Bindings Database, who informed us that is was as yet unrecorded. We are now contributing data relating to other stamps that have been identified, helping to update and extend the information already in the database.

Help us to uncover history on our Sion Provenance Project!

The Sion Provenance Project continues to grow with more material being added which you can peruse or you can offer us much appreciated help by having a go at deciphering inscriptions or identifying former owners of some of the Sion volumes. Perhaps over the Christmas period you might want to have a go?! We’d love to hear your comments and suggestions and we would be especially grateful if you could help us spread the word about the project and get more people involved!

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

September 30, 2016September 30, 2016 lampallibArchbishop of Canterbury, Archives, Church History, Church of England, Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, Incunabula, Lambeth Palace, Lambeth Palace Library, Libraries, Manuscripts, Provenance, Rare Books, Sion College Library, Special CollectionsLeave 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 Justin Welby for Christians aged 20-35. The Community draws its name from Saint Anselm of Canterbury – a Benedictine monk, renowned scholar and Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1114. Standing out in history as a teacher, philosopher and theologian (Vaughn, 2012), Anselm expounded the close relationship between knowledge of God and love of God, encapsulated in his motto, ‘faith seeking understanding’. It is therefore fitting that his prayers, letters and theological texts find a home among the manuscripts and earliest of printed books treasured in the Library of Lambeth Palace.

anselms-arms — Arms of Archbishop Anselm, from MS 555 f.4

Anselm himself was committed to monastic life and learning. Despite being turned away when he first sought to become a monk at the age of 15, he went on to become an influential Prior and Abbot of Bec monastery in France, where he taught the monks and wrote a number of works that gained him a reputation for deploying reason to understand faith, and developing the ontological argument for the existence of God (Shannon, 1999). These works can be found in a number of manuscripts held at Lambeth Palace Library, dating from the 12th to 15th century. The earliest of these is a manuscript compilation of Anselm’s treatises and a collection of his letters, compiled and copied in the 1120s by historian and monk, William of Malmesbury (MS 224).

ms224 — MS 224 f.152r, with headline and numbers added in red by Archbishop Parker

When asked to become Archbishop of Canterbury in 1093, Anselm saw it as his duty to lead the church in moral and doctrinal teaching, and to continue to develop his own understanding alongside that of his monks at Christ Church Canterbury (Shannon, 1999). It was here that the second earliest volume of Anselm’s work held at the Library was made, in the late 1120s: a major collection of letters that remained at the Cathedral Priory until the Dissolution (MS 59).

Along with several of the Anselm manuscripts in the Library today, both of these volumes feature in Archbishop Abbott’s catalogue of Archbishop Bancroft’s personal library, the founding collection of Lambeth Palace Library in 1610. They also bear the classmarks of Cambridge University, where they would be preserved during the Commonwealth occupation of Lambeth Palace. A list of contents written in the hand of Archbishop Sancroft in both volumes shows the care afforded to them on their return to Lambeth, while headlines added in MS 224 by Matthew Parker, Archbishop to Elizabeth I, and annotations in MS 59 believed to indicate Thomas Cranmer’s ownership (Selwyn, 1996), demonstrate that these volumes had long been the subject of close attention by earlier Archbishops. One annotator’s references to ‘alius liber epistolarum’ in MS 224 suggest that these volumes may even have been studied side by side. Further enforcing the long-standing esteem in which Anselm’s works were held, these works can also be found adorned within presentation volumes, such as a fine late 14th or early 15th century illuminated copy of his meditations copied alongside work from Bernard of Clairvaux and undoubtedly prepared for a dignitary (MS 194).

Thomas Becket requested Anselm’s canonization in 1163, shortly after his own appointment as Archbishop, and a copy of the Bull of Pope Alexander III responding to this request can be found in Lambeth’s collections (MS 159 f.76v). It lies within a volume of Saints’ Lives, bound for Archbishop Sancroft, which also contains a Life and Miracles of Anselm written by his chaplain and secretary, Eadmer of Canterbury, as well as the only known copy of Anselm’s Life written by John of Salisbury, Bishop of Chartres, on Thomas Becket’s request. The presence of a second bull regarding his canonization, however, listed within Archbishop Morton’s Register for 1494, suggests that he may not actually have been canonized until three centuries later (Reg. Morton 1, f.220).

The path did not run straight for Anselm, however, and the earliest archival item in the Library’s collections to make reference to him evidences the more troubled aspects of Anselm’s career. Thought to date from 1100, the document is a notice from King Henry I in Latin and English, confirming the ownership of Anselm and the Canterbury monks of all the lands that they held in the time of King Edward and King William I (CM/XI/1). This marked the return of lands confiscated by William II after Archbishop Lanfranc’s death, which were temporarily given back as a condition of Anselm’s acceptance of the Archbishopric, but seized again in 1095 as part of the long-running Investiture Controversy over whether the King or Pope had primary authority to invest ecclesiastical symbols of office. Even after this notice, the Controversy continued and, having already spent five years of his office in exile in 1095-1100, Anselm was exiled again from 1103-1106, until the dispute was settled at the Synod of Westminster in 1107 (Kemp, [n.d.]).

It was during the earlier of these periods of exile during his tenure as Archbishop that Anselm completed what is often considered his greatest work, Cur Deus homo (“Why God was man”). This is the text printed in the earliest of 7 incunabula containing Anselm’s work held in Lambeth’s collection. Printed between 1474 and 1500 in the continental printing centres of Strasbourg, Passau, Nuremberg and Basel, they illustrate Anselm’s ongoing influence. This first printed edition of Cur Deus homo is believed to have been printed in 1474 in Strasbourg by George Husner (F220.A6 [**]). Demonstrating Anselm’s typically rational approach, it is formulated as a dialogue between Anselm and his student, Boso, and argues for the necessity of Jesus’ nature as fully human and fully divine in order to atone for mankind’s sin against an infinite God (Williams, 2016). This copy was purchased in 2002 by the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library.

cur-deus-homo — *Cur Deus homo* f.1r (F220.A6 [**], 1474)

This work features again amongst Lambeth’s incunabula, in an edition printed 11 years later in 1485 in Passau by Johann Petri (F220.A6 [**]). Here it is bound with Anselm’s short narrative on the Passion of Christ, De planctu Marie, which again takes the form of a dialogue, this time between Anselm and the Virgin Mary, and aimed at a young audience. Bound with a copy of 5th-century priest Julianus Pomerius’ treatise, De vita contemplative, it still retains its original 15th century wooden boards and clasp, and was presented to the Library by the Friends in 2000.

The attention of eminent writers, scholars and theologians is evident in these incunabula. Opera [et] tractatus beati Anselmi archiepiscopi cantuariēn ordinis Sancti Benedicti (1491), carries a donor inscription gifting the book to Archbishop Tait from R.C. Jenkins in 1869 ([ZZ]1491.2). This was most likely the theological writer Robert Charles Jenkins, rector of Lyminge with Paddlesworth in Kent, and a frequent correspondent with Tait.

tait — Donor inscription from Jenkins to Tait in [ZZ]1491.2, front pastedown

Significantly, one late 15th century edition of Anselm’s works ([ZZ]1500.7) has been signed by historian and martyrologist, John Foxe, who would later include Anselm’s history and letters in his Actes and Monuments. The copy retains its early 16th century blind-stamped binding by Nicholas Speirinck and, along with several of these incunabula, contains fine examples of manuscript waste used in the printed volume’s pastedowns. Its title handwritten on the fore-edge reminds us of the book’s history in libraries at one point shelved with the fore-edges displayed, while a second copy of this edition, transferred from Sion College Library, displays the staple marks of hasps from its previous residence in a chained library (L40.4/43). Sion’s copy also retains a contemporary blind-tooled calf binding with a dragon motif, listed on the animals roll as made in Cambridge.

Anselm’s presence in the collections continues throughout the centuries, with further volumes of his works and studies on them dating from the 16th century through to the modern day. As the second year of the Community of Saint Anselm gets underway, these volumes are further testimony to the influence of this faithful monastic theologian at Lambeth Palace and in Christian thought from the 11th century to today.

e2649-a6 — Title page of *D. Anselmi Cantuariensis archiepiscopi … in omnes sanctissimi Pauli apostoli epistolas enarrationes* … printed in 1533 in Coloniae (E2649.(A6) [**])

Community of St Andrew – cataloguing completed

September 23, 2015September 16, 2015 lampallibChurch of England, Community of St Andrew, Deaconess, North London Deaconess InstitutionLeave a comment

The Community of St. Andrew collection has recently been catalogued and is now available for research. It has taken 4 months to catalogue nearly 50 boxes of archive material and you can search the collection on our online archive catalogue. The material charts the establishment of the first Deaconess religious community in the Church of England from its beginnings in the 1860s to the present day.

The Community of St. Andrew, or the North London Deaconess Institution as it was called in 1861, moved to Tavistock Crescent in Westbourne Park in the early 1870s where the mother house stayed for the next 130 years. The community always had a dual purpose of performing prayer and worship for the surrounding community it resided in and performing good works for the community. The collection contains much material that reflects the dual purpose of the community with many papers documenting the rules that the sisters followed in their daily life and the compassionate work carried out by the sisters.

There is a whole series of papers on ‘The Religious Life’ that contains many papers written by sisters and Mother Superiors in the community which give evidence to the theological motivations for the actions of the community. Mother Clare who was Mother Superior from 1942-1964 was particularly prolific and the collection contains many addresses that she made to religious conferences during her service as Mother Superior.

There are some records created by the foundress of the community, Elizabeth Ferard, including her Diary that she kept while on Deaconess training at Kaiserswerth in Germany and notes she made during the Deaconess Conference in 1861 where she put forward questions about how she should establish and develop the Deaconess order in England. An extract of these minutes can be seen below:

The community established many branch houses over its lifetime and there is material that relates to the administration of these houses and the works they undertook. As the numbers of sisters in the community reduced, these branch houses were closed and sisters who worked there recalled to the Mother House. The correspondence documenting these closures highlights the effects they had on the sisters involved and how the community as a whole adapted to these changes.

As the numbers of sisters in the community dwindled the need for the larger Mother House at Tavistock Crescent was reduced and the mother house was reduced in size through refurbishment and then finally handed over to the Anglican Communion Office in the early 2000s when the community moved to Verona Court in Chiswick. They retained an office at Tavistock Road where they still have a presence today.

The collection also has a series of records concerning the Deaconess order in general. Members of the community were very actively involved in national Deaconess committees and conferences and their activities are documented in correspondence and minutes of meetings. There is also a sizeable collection of newsletters relating to the Deaconess order.

You can find the collection on the archive catalogue by searching for the order number prefix CSA. Visit our reading room to see any papers you are interested in.

New books!

Magazines and journals

Upcoming events

Dr Nicholas Fisher: ‘Bishop Symon Patrick (1626-1707) – unsung hero of the Restoration Church of England’.

Thursday 26 March, 6pm (admittance from 5:30pm)

Day conference on the seventeenth-century book collector Richard Smith (1590-1675) and his library.

Wednesday 27 May (further details to follow)

Professor Alan Nelson (University of California, Berkeley): ‘The Books of Henry Bradshawe, nephew of the regicide’.

Tuesday 2 June, 5:30pm (admittance not before 5pm)

Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, followed by a lecture by Professor Richard Gameson: ‘Codex and Colour: the pigments of Lambeth Palace manuscripts’.

Thursday 18 June, 2:30pm (admittance not before 2pm)

New Library update

2020 Getting ready to move!

Lambeth Palace Library and Church of England Record Centre – Collections and People Migration Project

Archive news

Newly catalogued items

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Merry Christmas from the Library and Record Centre!

New books

Magazines and journals

Upcoming events

‘Bishop Symon Patrick (1626-1707) – unsung hero of the Restoration Church of England’

Day conference on the seventeenth-century book collector Richard Smith (1590-1675) and his library

The Books of Henry Bradshawe, nephew of the regicide

Annual General Meeting of the Friends of Lambeth Palace Library, followed by a lecture by Professor Richard Gameson: ‘Codex and Colour: the pigments of Lambeth Palace manuscripts’

New Library update

Archive news

Lambeth Palace Library and Church of England Record Centre Collection and People Migration Project

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Happy Christmas from all the staff at Lambeth Palace Library and the Church of England Record Centre!

Library Advent Calendar!

This month’s new books!

Upcoming events

Dr David Starkey: ‘Henry VIII and Luther: A Reappraisal’

Tuesday 6 February, 5.15pm (admittance not before 4.45pm)

An evening with the Library’s conservators, with an opportunity to view the conservation studio and discuss techniques and treatments with the Library’s conservation staff

Thursday 19 April, 6pm-7.30pm (admittance not before 5.45pm)

News from the Archives

Uncovering the history of books in the Sion College collection

Help us to uncover history on our Sion Provenance Project!

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