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.

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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.

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Photographs of Music

August 23, 2019August 23, 2019 lampallibBooks, Digital imaging, Manuscripts, Music, photography1 Comment

The extract of music today comes from Lambeth Palace MS 457 and consists of four poems with music. As well as studying verse and notation, it will also allow us to look at the use and reuse of parchment and how, with modern technology, we can reconstruct missing or damaged pages in manuscripts. The text is a is a rebound set of three manuscripts dating from the 15th century and earlier and is written on paper and parchment. Aside from the two folios we shall look at the text is non-musical and consists of treatises, liturgical writings, and sermons, including the writings of Jerome and Seneca. Of the two pages containing music notation only one is visible to the naked eye. The other has been scraped away and a commentary on the seven deadly sins has been written over the top (palimpsest). This was a common occurrence in medieval manuscripts, whereby scribes and writers could reuse or correct previous writing by scraping the existing text away from the velum with a small knife and leaving a clear surface to write upon again.

The music itself is in a 13^th century non-mensural script, this being literally non-measured notes, where the placement and form of the note indicate pitch but not timing or rhythm. This is not to say of course that there is no way to tell what the rhythm is meant to be. The interpretation relies on our understanding of cultural norms and rhythmic modes, as well as textual analysis looking at the stresses in the syllables and the rhythmic structure of the text. Examples of the rhythmic modes, like harmonic modes but governing rhythm rather than pitch, can be found in France around the 12^th century.[i] These examples are attributed to Léonin (1150s-1201) who was a member of the Notre Dame school of Polyphony, which existed from 1160-1250. During this time, he established six underlying pulses or rhythmic modes to guide people in interpreting note values in a given piece of music. How far outside of the Notre Dame school in Paris this travelled is a matter of some contention as is the possibility of other schools using similar principles. That they likely existed can be surmised by non-mensural music that does not conform to his patterns and that was written some distance from Paris. It should be said however that the proliferation of this type of notation does not necessarily equate to multiple schools considering what we know of the movement of people and rapid diffusion of ideas during this period. This was superseded in the 13^th as mensural music systems were developed and codified, the most well-known example was by Franco of Cologne who wrote Ars Cantus Mensurabilis in 1250-1280.

It is a common feature however that music based on pre-existing compositions was still written in non-mensural notation even after the 13^th century. This is commonly seen for example in transcriptions of troubadour songs. This piece in MS 457 can be clearly defined as non-mensural by the lack of ligatures in the setting and by the positioning of breves and longs above one another where both must have the same value (for more information about this type of notation see A plaine and easie introduction to practicall musicke. Thomas Morley) Approaching this piece then one can see the limits of our understanding of this type of music. When one approaches with the wrong rhythmical system the carefully prepared dissonances and resolutions of voice leading, something that was very important in this form of music, are lost. This can result in further attempts to ‘correct’ errors in the music, which can then lead to very different interpretations. Examples of the approaches range from syllabic, each syllable having equal value with melasmas being quickened, to entirely unmeasured, the choice being up to the performer. One of the ways musicologists have attempted to reconstruct a more historically accurate basis is to look at instances where both mensural and non-mensural notation is used to depict the same tune.

Figure 1Bnf MS fr. 844 f78v 13century

In this example there is a dance (a vielle) beginning “Tant es gay es avinentz” written in mensural notation. On the right on the third stave down is a troubadour song by Blacasset vegining “Ben volgra que.m vengues mer[c]es” written in non-mensural notation. Both however use the same melody. This raises a whole host of interesting questions, about how one approaches this type of music and why the use of non-mensural notation persisted when more ‘accurate’ notation was available. It has been suggested by some musicologists that the very ambiguity of the notation was the point. Complaints by Elias Salomon in the 1270s, amongst others about church singers retarding, accelerating, anticipating, and improperly phrasing the notes suggest that the practice of treating the written music as a guide rather than prescriptive meant that depicting the exact rhythm was not only not useful but not required. The next question is that if this was the case why then also transcribe this work in mensural notation? The answer, I believe, has to do more with form than historical precedent. The first piece on the page is meant to be a dance. Without a regular rhythm this becomes much more difficult. Whereas for a song, particularly if there is a cultural expectation and performance practice of rhythmic expression, writing something out in strict metric rhythm would be unnecessary.

Returning to the manuscript, having looked at why the style of notation was used and discussed what remains and what does not, we can next consider the application of spectroscopy and the use of non-visible light spectrums when studying medieval or historical manuscripts. This has been revolutionary in what it has allowed us to see. Below are three examples the middle one showing the image as it would appear to the naked eye. The one on the right being a composite of under UV light showing a previously unseen trace of a border. The one on the left demonstrates the effect on pigments of this sort of technology.

In the above images of MS1370 you can clearly see how by viewing the page under different sources of light the image of an erased border can be seen. This is due to the different reactions of ink to different wavelengths of light. Pigments, simplistically, get their colour from the reflection of a certain, or combination of certain, wavelengths of light. The simplest and most common example in manuscripts is the use of carbon, in various forms, in black ink. This means that when looked at under UV or IR light the carbon particles absorb the wavelengths far more than the surrounding parchment. This can reveal text or line drawings that are otherwise obscured either because they have been erased or because they have been covered up. For example, when looking at illuminated pages in a manuscript under IR light the pigments used do not, by and large, absorb the light, thus allowing us to see the black lines beneath where the artist sketched out the design. This can reveal previous ideas or alternative arrangements of the image. Similarly, when the text is viewed under UV light the different pigments reflect differing amounts of UV light. With the right camera and equipment this can be rendered visible and, as you can see, reveal information about the pigments used and how they were applied.

Turning to MS 457, whilst the music on f 192v has been erased it can viewed under UV light showing a continuation of the music underneath the writing. This is done by shining a hand-held UV lamp at the page whilst taking images with the digital camera; a low-tech approach but suitable for our purposes.

With a slightly fuller picture of the work we can see that the music is divided into 5 distinct songs: The first is quite distinct in its rhythmic approach, which can be interpreted from the syllabification of the text and the placement of ligatures. The poem used is metric with a definite rhyme scheme. It is also probably English in origin, owing to the proliferation of thirds and the fact that similar tune has not been found in other continental sources. The work is harmonically interesting with prepared dissonances throughout resolving and reoccurring as the piece progresses

For the second piece the underlying tune is an Agnus trope, a copy of which can be found in a 14^th century Sarum missal in the Bodleian (MS Don.b.5, f. 398). The rhythm of the piece is a modification of the duplum mode and lacks the thirds and dissonances of the previous piece. However, since the trope is from the Sarum we can assume the piece is English again.

The third piece of music is again based on a metrical rhyming poem leading one to believe it has a binary structure (aa bb or ab ab). Of interest however is the last five notes of the piece where a new third voice is introduced, giving what is probably an early example of English three voice polyphony

The fourth piece is where things become more difficult. The trope used is incomplete having two lines of music over one line of text. With the piece being through composed, that being music composed with a focus on voice leading and the individual melodic line rather than harmonic patterns, it is likely that the text continued on the next page with fragments of the second and third verses of the trope visible under UV light. Fortunately, the trope is recognisable and exists with different music in other sources. However, unlike the proceeding pieces the work is not metrically balanced and lacks an internal rhyme. This melody, as said, is from an Agnus Dei chant which, in this case, is found throughout England, France, Germany, Spain, Italy, leading to clear difficulties in identifying the original piece.

This has hopefully provided a brief introduction into the difficulties in studying early manuscripts and the advantages that modern technology can bring to this process.

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Summer update from the Library and Record Centre

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New books!

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

Learning to die in London, 1380-1540 by Amy Appleford (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2015). More information and reviews available here.
The grass roots of English history: local societies in England before the industrial revolution by David Hey (London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2016). More information and reviews available here.
Melodies of a new monasticism: Bonhoeffer’s vision, Iona’s witness by Craig Gardiner with a foreword by Rowan Williams (London: SCM Press, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
Studying early printed books 1450-1800: a practical guide by Sarah Werner (Hoboken: Wiley Blackwell, 2019). More information available here.
English Bibles on trial: Bible burning and the desecration of Bibles, 1640-1800 by Avner Shamir (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017). More information available here.
The forgotten creed: Christianity’s original struggle against bigotry, slavery, and sexism by Stephen J. Patterson (New York: Oxford University Press, 2018). More information available here.
Did the Anglicans and Roman Catholics agree on the Eucharist?: a revisit of the Anglican-Roman Catholic International Commission’s agreed statements of 1971 and related documents by Colin Buchanan (Eugene: Pickwick Publications, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
Designing sacred spaces by Sherin Wing (Abingdon: Routledge, 2016). More information and reviews available here.
Prayerbook of Christ: Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Christological interpretation of the Psalms by Brad Pribbenow (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
C reating religious childhoods in Anglo-world and British colonial contexts, 1800-1950 edited by Hugh Morrison and Mary Clare Martin (Abingdon: Routledge, 2017). More information and reviews available here.
‘Cathedrals of Britain’ series: W est, south west and Wales, London and the south east, and Central and east by Bernadette Fallon (Barnsley: Pen & Sword History, 2018). More information available here.
The rhetoric of Pope Francis: critical mercy and conversion for the twenty-first century by Christopher J. Oldenburg (Lanham: Lexington Books, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
Medieval pilgrimage: with a survey of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset, and Bristol by Nicholas Orme (Exeter: Impress Books, 2018). More information available here.
The Magdalene in the Reformation by Margaret Arnold (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018). More information and reviews available here.
Miscellaneous order: manuscript culture and the early modern organization of knowledge by Angus Vine (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). More information available here.
Utilitarianism in the age of enlightenment: the moral and political thought of William Pal ey by Niall O’Flaherty (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2019). More information 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:

Anglican and Episcopal History
Church Monument s
E nglish Historical Review
Families First
H istorical Research
Modern Believing
New Directions
Parliamentary History
The Prayer Book S ociety Journal
Theology

We also receive the following papers and magazines weekly:

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

Upcoming events

Lambeth Palace Garden Open Days with Great Hall entry and exhibition

Every first Friday of the month until September, 12 noon to 3pm
Next Open Day: Friday 2 August

An opportunity to visit the Palace’s beautiful gardens and see the progress of the new Library building! Refreshments and entertainment are provided in the garden and there will be plants for sale. The 17th century Great Hall will also be open throughout the Open Days, with a chance to view displays of some of the Library’s collections. Do come along and bring your friends and family!

There is an entrance fee of £5, which will go to a chosen charity each month, and there is no need to book.

New Library update

As of July, the Library project remains on time and on budget. The Archbishop topped out the building in May.

The brickwork is nearing completion and is gradually being revealed as the scaffolding comes down.

Over the summer and Autumn most of the work is concentrated on the inside of the building as all the mechanical work progresses inside.

Staff are now heavily involved in planning for the big move of all the archives from the Library and CERC which will be taking place between June to December 2020.

Archive news

Clare Brown awarded The Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship

The Library is delighted that Mrs Clare Brown, Archivist, was awarded The Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship by Archbishop Welby at the Lambeth Awards 2019, for her work in guiding readers through the archives of the Church of England, and for her exhibitions and scholarly expertise in support of Lambeth Palace Library and three Archbishops of Canterbury. In April, we bid Clare a very long and happy retirement after seventeen years of service at the Library!

Clare’s contribution over the years is too vast to summarise briefly, but we hope to give a sense of her many accomplishments. On joining the Library, Clare completed cataloguing of the papers of Archbishop Ramsey, and then led cataloguing of the Council of Foreign Relations (CFR) archive. She led work on the collaborative projects on the Library’s important collection of Greek manuscripts, with an exhibition in 2006 and the launch of the catalogue in 2016. She contributed to understanding of the Canterbury Archbishops’ Registers alongside work undertaken by the Borthwick Institute on the York Registers. Her knowledge of the history of ecumenical relations contributed to displays for visitors to the Archbishop from other churches, and her extensive knowledge of the collections and of Church of England history have benefited many Library readers and NCIs colleagues over the years. This is evidenced, not least, by the amount of enquiries Clare answered during her time at the Library – almost 3,700!

We will all greatly miss Clare’s incredible knowledge, helpfulness, her willingness to share her expertise with Library readers and colleagues alike, and especially her sense of humour.

Archival collections news

Papers from 1988 have been released for research, including some 500 files from the papers of Archbishop Runcie and further material on Anglican-Roman Catholic relations from the records of ARCIC II. Descriptions can be searched on the Library’s online archives catalogue.

Further newly-catalogued material includes records of the Lambeth Diploma and Vacation Term for Biblical Study, two initiatives founded in the early 20th century to provide theological and scriptural training for women. Library staff are also adding detail to descriptions of various series of news cuttings and photographs relating to Archbishops Benson (cartoon pictured below), Davidson, Lang and Fisher, which complement correspondence and other papers in the main series. Photographs of Lambeth Palace and garden by Sue Snell are also now catalogued.

An annotated Bible belonging to John Taylor Smith, Bishop of Sierra Leone, was donated to the Library. The Library also received a set of playing cards produced by the Mothers’ Union.

Watercolours from the Library collections can now been seen on the new Watercolour World website.

Recent blog posts have covered a printed work on music from the Sion College collection; a further report on records of the Court of Arches; and a conference on Anglo-Saxon manuscripts.

A digitised version of Herbert Bosham’s life of Thomas Becket incorporating folios from the Library’s MS 5048 detached from the parent manuscript held in Arras is now available.

The 100^th anniversary of the Church Assembly, predecessor of General Synod, occurs in 2019. Aside from the main archive held at the Church of England Record Centre, there are further voluminous sources in the Library collections.

An edition of the household accounts of Archbishop Laud has been published; the original document is held at the National Archives, but complements sources relating to Laud in the Library collections. Readers may be interested in a Salvation Army blog post on the history of Christianity in China; the Library also holds material on the church in China.

In the Conservation Studio

Earlier in the year, a group of students from the Consortium for the Humanities and the Arts South-East England (CHASE) visited the Library as part of their ‘Material Witness‘ training programme, which examines physical objects in the digital age. The visit was organised by Teresa Lane, PhD student at the Courtauld Institute of Art, who recently completed a six-month CHASE internship working on the Library’s illuminated manuscripts. It gave participants a behind-the-scenes look in the conservation studio and an opportunity to learn about the different approaches and techniques involved in preserving fragile books.

Lara Artemis, Senior Conservator at the Library, led the sessions on medieval manuscripts, examining their materiality and chemistry, as well as their history and provenance. The group were shown the stunningly illuminated 13th-century Lambeth Apocalypse (MS 209) – one of the Library’s treasures – and looked at the kinds of pigments used by the artists. The students even had a go at mixing pigments and painting their own illuminations on vellum afterwards!

The photographs above are taken from the Material Witness blog about the student’s visit to Lambeth Palace Library, which gives plenty more fascinating insights into manuscripts and their conservation.

In other news, we continue to make strides in our boxing and preparing the collections for the move. We’ve now completed around 25,000 boxes for vulnerable items in the collection, including completing the job of cleaning, measuring, boxing and organising the vulnerable Sion College Library collections stored in the Blore, one of our Library storerooms.

Sion College Founder’s Day at Lambeth Palace

Fellows and members of Sion College celebrated its Founder’s Day at Lambeth Palace on Tuesday 9 July. This year’s event included a lecture by Baroness Manningham-Buller, former Director General of MI5, who spoke on the topic of “Intelligence and Ethics”. Evening prayer in the Chapel was followed by a drinks reception in the Great Hall where attendees were able to view an exhibition of some of the newly catalogued items from the Sion College collection, now housed in Lambeth Palace Library. Also on display were books and manuscripts relating to the lecture’s theme, including Reginald Scot’s Discovery of witchcraft (1654) in which the author denounced the prosecution and torture of those accused of witchcraft as un-Christian and irrational, and a 1584 caricature of Thomas Norton, whose ruthless and enthusiastic punishment of English Catholics led to his being nicknamed the “Rackmaster-General”.

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Archbishop Parker and the recovery of Old English

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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 (containing Alcuin’s letter to Charlemagne) and MS 1370 (the Mac Durnan Gospels) are now back onsite and will soon be available to view online. Although the Archbishopric did not acquire the site of Lambeth Palace until the early thirteenth century, it has in its history housed a substantial number of Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. Matthew Parker (Archbishop between 1559 and 1575) amassed a vast collection of manuscripts, assembled from the spoils of the dissolved monastic libraries: many still bear marks of their pre-Reformation repositories, including the libraries of the two Benedictine communities in Canterbury, Christ Church and St Augustine’s. While Parker’s manuscripts are now mainly held in Corpus Christi College Cambridge and the Cambridge University Library, traces can be found throughout the collection here at Lambeth Palace, both in manuscripts and in printed books of the Early Modern period.

Image 1: ‘Pater noster on englisc’ from *A testimonie of antiquitie*

Archbishop Parker employed a team of scholars to study historical and theological texts from the Anglo-Saxon period, in order to support the newly-Reformed English Church’s claims both to doctrinal accuracy and to independence from Rome. The earliest product of this scholarship was A testimonie of antiquitie, shewing the auncient fayth in the Church of England touching the sacrament of the body and bloude of the Lord, printed in London in 1566 by John Day, who cut the special type used to replicate the insular minuscule of the Anglo-Saxon sources. This small volume contains a sermon by Ælfric of Eynsham, with additional materials including a ‘Pater noster on englisc’ (see image 1). The accompanying English text reflects the appearance of interlinear glosses in numerous manuscripts of the late Anglo-Saxon period but, more importantly, would also have helped readers to understand the Old English language, accurately printed for the first time in this very book. Day later used his type for Parker’s 1574 edition of Asser’s Ælfredi regis res gestæ, where it was used not only for text in Old English, but also for Latin. A comparative table of alphabets opposite the first page of Asser’s text allows the reader to contrast the Latin and Saxon typefaces for shared characters, and to contextualise characters that were common in Old and Middle English but had fallen out of use by the Elizabethan period (see image 2): the ‘ash’ (Æ) ligature; ‘eth’ (ð, Đ) and ‘thorn’ (þ); the Tironian ‘and’, resembling a numeral 7; and ‘wynn’ (ƿ).

im2 — Image 2: Comparative table of alphabets from *Ælfredi regis res gestæ*

The most important of the scholars in Parker’s circle was his Latin secretary John Joscelyn, who is acknowledged to have been the chief contributor to the Archbishop’s monumental history of the Church in England, De antiquitate Britannicæ ecclesiæ & privilegiis ecclesiæ Cantuariensis, printed at Lambeth Palace by John Day in 1572. Working closely with the Archbishop’s son John Parker, Joscelyn compiled a dictionary of Old English (now London, British Library Cotton MSS Titus A. xv and xvi) and a grammar (now lost), drawing upon his extensive use of manuscripts in the Archbishop’s collection. The Old English word lists that survive in MS 692 represent a stage of Joscelyn’s efforts to construct this dictionary. Each list corresponds to an Old English text – mostly historical and theological works in prose, such as Gregory the Great’s Pastoral Care and Bede’s Ecclesiastical History – with pages containing up to four columns of over 150 words each, glossed in Latin or, occasionally, English. Joscelyn replicated the form of the insular minuscule in his tiny script, as can be seen from a list of R words from fol. 10r (see image 3). These words are compiled from a manuscript of Ælfric’s Grammar (now Cambridge, University Library MS Hh. 1. 10), the opening passage of which Joscelyn quoted in the preface to A testimonie of antiquitie:

Ic Ælfric ƿolde ðar littlen boc aƿendan to engliscum gereorde of ðam stæf cræfte ðe is gehaten grammatica… [I Ælfric wanted to translate this little book on the art of letters, which is called Grammatica, into the English language.]

Bound into MS 692 is a second, non-alphabetical word list, in a larger and scruffier hand than Joscelyn’s. This was compiled by the prolific scholar Laurence Nowell, who is now perhaps most famous for having owned the manuscript containing the sole extant copy of Beowulf (London, British Library Cotton MS Vitellius A. xv). Nowell likewise glossed Old English words in Latin, but relied more upon English than Joscelyn did, for example rendering ‘Byrigeles’ as ‘Buriall’, ‘Blæc ⁊ feðere’ as ‘inke & penne’, and ‘Þunreslege’ as ‘Thunderclappe’ (see image 4). Nowell’s list was probably incorporated into MS 692 by Joscelyn himself. Indeed, like Joscelyn, Nowell spent many years compiling a Vocabularium of Old English (now Oxford, Bodleian Library MS Selden Supra 63); this work was never published but the manuscript served as a useful source for scholars including Joscelyn and John Parker, and William Somner, whose Dictionarium Saxonico-Latino-Anglicum, the first printed Old English dictionary, was published in Oxford in 1659.

im4 — Image 4: Word list by Laurence Nowell from MS 692

Items in the Lambeth Palace Library reflect the shift in the early modern period away from the search for the political identity of the Anglo-Saxon Church, and towards the study of the Old English language in its social and literary contexts, underpinned by the rigorous study of Anglo-Saxon texts from Archbishop Parker’s collection by scholars in his circle. Seventeenth-century editors of Old English celebrated the Archbishop’s extraordinary library, acknowledging the efforts of John Joscelyn and his colleagues, and making use of John Day’s typeface – all of which were at crucial stages connected to Lambeth Palace. As the preface to the Old English Pastoral Care in Parker’s Ælfredi regis res gestæ (image 5) shows, the business of the Church has played a key role in the spreading of literacy both in England and in English. Under Archbishop Parker’s patronage, this tradition perhaps reached its zenith, with the study of ancient books leading to new styles of printing, new fields of study, and a renewed interest in the preservation of historical documents.

im5 — Image 5: Preface to the Old English *Pastoral Care* in *Ælfredi regis res gestæ*

Further Reading

Albert H. Marckwardt, ‘The Sources of Laurence Nowell’s Vocabularium Saxonicum’, Studies in Philology 45.1 (1948), 21-36.

N.R. Ker, Catalogue of manuscripts containing Anglo-Saxon (Oxford, 1957).

Timothy Graham and Andrew G. Watson, The Recovery of the Past in Early Elizabethan England: Documents by John Bale and John Joscelyn from the Circle of Matthew Parker, Cambridge Bibliographical Society Monographs, 13 (Cambridge, 1998).

Timothy Graham, ‘John Joscelyn, Pioneer of Old Engilsh Lexicography’, pp. 83-140 in The Recovery of Old English: Anglo-Saxon Studies in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries ed. Graham (Kalamazoo, MI, 2000).

John N. King, Foxe’s ‘Book of Martyrs’ and Early Modern Print Culture (Cambridge, 2006).

John Considine, Dictionaries in Early Modern Europe: Lexicography and the Making of Heritage (Cambridge, 2008).

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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Magazines and journals

Upcoming events

Lambeth Palace Garden Open Days with Great Hall entry and exhibition

New Library update

Archive news

Clare Brown awarded The Lanfranc Award for Education and Scholarship

Archival collections news

In the Conservation Studio

Sion College Founder’s Day at Lambeth Palace

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