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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 22h

Visit our website to book free tickets and to find out more information - www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/event/lambet...

#LambethPalaceLibrary #OpenDay #Books #Manuscripts #Archive #Library #CareerGrowth #CareerOpportunity

Lambeth Palace Library Careers Open Day – Lambeth Palace Library

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info

Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 22h

🎓Join us for our Careers Open Day - a chance to explore exciting roles, meet the team and discover how to enter these professions.

📅What's on📅
👤Chat with staff!
📚Book a Library tour!
🕰Enjoy our collections!
🤝Meet professional bodies and learn about the wider sector!
🎶Explore our current exhibition

Picture of the reading room with yellow text over the top, reading Lambeth Palace Library Career Open Day, for ages 16-18 plus undergrads and career changers, 30th October opening times 10am-4pm, 15 Lambeth Palace Road, SE1 7JT

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 6d

For #FolkloreThursday here's the legendary King Arthur defeating an armoured giant depicted in the 15th century Chronicle of St Albans.

[LPL MS6, f56v]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #KingArthur #Manuscript

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 7d

Happy October! This woodcut of a cat with a mouse is the printer's device of the Venetian printer Melchior Sessa, and was used by his heirs in this 1598 book of sermons.

(Sion A66.0/OS5)

#RareBooks #SionCollege #Cats #Manuscripts

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 8d

Today the Church of England remembers Jerome (d. 420), translator of the Scriptures, and teacher of the Faith. Here we see Jerome at his writing desk in a detail from a late 13th century Bible.

[MS89 f.1r]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Archives #Manuscript

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 20d

For more on our local history sources, see our research
guide: tinyurl.com/5n8xu54z

To enquire further about our local history sources:
www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/using-the-li...
enquiry-form/

For more on the 2025 Lambeth Heritage Festival:
www.lambeth.gov.uk/lambeth-heri...

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 20d

At the start of September, we were thrilled to showcase our services at the Lambeth Local History Fair in Clapham Library. Our collections contain a treasure-trove of local history sources, including plans of Lambeth pubs owned by the Church Commissioners!

A member of LPL staff at the Lambeth Palace Library stall

A photograph of the room at the Lambeth Local History fair.

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Sam Brown @samuscript.bsky.social · 26d

Here is Ted Simonds from @lampallib.bsky.social talking about
Sion College Library’s donors. His research is piecing together stories of people & books, both on & off the pages of the Book of Benefactors, and emphasised (for me!) how much bookish networks overlapped in the period. #BuiltWithBooks

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 27d

More surprising still, it’s in silver – unexpected, given that Hutton had qualms over the cost of becoming archbishop.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · 27d

📣 New acquisition! 📣

Seal matrix of Matthew Hutton, Archbishop of Canterbury for just one year, 1757-58.

An unusual survival - archbishops’ seals were often recycled into the seal for the next incumbent.

[L-2025-4]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Acquisition

Seal matrix of Matthew Hutton. Seal in wax and matrix in silver [L-2025-4]

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Sep 5

Tickets are still available for our affiliated
exhibition concert in Arundel, Sussex, performing works
from the Arundel Choirbook!🎶

This event is organised and hosted by the Friends of St
Nicholas Church.

Book tickets here! 👇 stnicholas.uk/2025/06/13/c...

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Sep 3

Today is the feast of Gregory the Great,
Bishop of Rome, teacher of the Faith, d. 604. This hand
coloured woodcut depicts the Mass of St. Gregory. It is
from Horae ad usum Rothmagensem (Paris, 1498).

[ZZ1488.5]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Archives #History

Woodcut of Gregory the Great, Bishop of Rome, kneeling. [ZZ1488.5]

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Sep 1

For more information on how to book in person and online, and for a full programme of the day, please visit our website: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/music-and.../

Music and Reformation: A Symposium at Lambeth Palace Library – Lambeth Palace Library

Event Calendar

www.lambethpalacelibrary.info

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Sep 1

On 16 September, we are hosting a Music and Reformation Symposium in conjunction with our exhibition, 'Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'.

Among other themes, we will foster discussion around music fragments recently discovered and identified in library collections. 🎶

Flyleaf in a 16th century printed book. [**H1936.R6 flyleaf]

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 29

Exciting news! ✨

The recorded lecture given by Dr Joseph Mason in association with our 'Sing Joyfully' exhibition has just been published on our YouTube!

If you missed the lecture or are interested in musical manuscripts, then give this video a watch! 🎶

Dr Joseph Mason: Notes from the archive: a tour through pre-modern music in Lambeth Palace Library.

On 31 July 2025, Dr Joseph Mason gave a short paper to introduce the exhibition 'Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'. In particular, he discussed a newly discovered piece of…

youtu.be

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 28

The Arundel Choirbook in Concert!🎶

Two very exciting concerts are happening in September
in conjunction with our exhibition 'Sing Joyfully:
Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library'!

For more information, visit the link in our bio ✨

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Concert #Arundel

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 26

It's international dog day! 🐶

Here is a picture of Cosmo Gordon Lang around the time of his ordination at Portsea in Hampshire with his fellow ordinands and the vicarage dog, James. James is marked as an Aberdeen terrier and looks to be enjoying the company!

[Lang 300i49]

#InternationalDogDay

Cosmo Gordon Lang (first row centre) with vicarage dog, James, on his lap.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 8

FREE Copyright Training Course! Lambeth Palace Library is hosting a free, half-day workshop for Anglican cathedral archives and libraries on Friday 19 September. The session will be run by Naomi Korn Associates. For more info contact: [email protected] . Plus, lunch is provided!

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 7

Our manuscripts are overflowing with delightful animal antics.
In case a bear playing the bagpipes wasn’t quite enough, this 15th-century Psalter also features an owl and a peacock in the margins.
🦉🦚🐻
Lambeth Palace Library, MS 186, fol. 109r
#GreatAndSmall #MedievalManuscripts @churchofengland.org

Lambeth Palace Library, MS 186, fol. 109r

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 4

To find out more about the exhibition and other associated events, visit our website 👉 www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/sing-joyfully/

Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Aug 4

Last week we officially opened our newest exhibition, 'Sing Joyfully', with a fantastic lecture by Dr Joseph Mason on pre-modern music in our collections and an opening reception where visitors were able to view the exhibition!

Thank you to everyone who joined us to celebrate the opening! 🎶

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Jul 31

Today, we proudly opened our exhibition, Sing Joyfully: Exploring Music in Lambeth Palace Library, to the public! 🎉

👉 Learn more on our Sing Joyfully homepage: www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/sing-joyfully/

#SingJoyfully #LambethPalaceLibrary

Image of exhibition case and contents for the 'Sing Joyfully' exhibition.

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Jul 29

Today is the feast of Mary, Martha and
Lazarus, companions of Our Lord. Shown here is an
etching of Christ raising Lazarus, by Rembrandt
Harmenszoon van Rijn dated 1642.

[Prints 50/002]

#LambethPalaceLibrary #Prints #Rembrandt

Print by Rembrandt of Christ raising Lazarus. [Prints 50/002]

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Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL) @cerl-community.bsky.social · Jul 28

🕰️ How would you draw time?

That’s what kids were asked at Lambeth Palace Library’s workshop tied to the Unfolding Time exhibition.

Read in our latest CERL blog post how this creative outreach brought medieval calendars to life for 200+ London pupils.

🔗 cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/28/z...

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Lambeth Palace Library @lampallib.bsky.social · Jul 28

@cerl-community.bsky.social

cerlblog.wordpress.com/2025/07/28
/zigzag-calendars-a-case-study-in-outreach-with-school
s-at-lambeth-palace-library/

cerlblog.wordpress.com

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