Lambeth Palace Library

Today the Church celebrates the Visit of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth, transferred from 31st May.

This hand-coloured woodcut depicting this moment is from a 15th century Book of Hours.

[1488.5i]

Today is Trinity Sunday.

This wonderful hand-coloured woodcut of the Trinity comes from Horae ad usum Rothmagensem (Book of Hours for the use of Rouen).

It was printed in Paris in 1498.

[ZZ1488.5]

Join us for an afternoon talk with Orly Amit, Maciej Pawlikowski
and Eyal Poleg.

This talk explores both the history of the manuscript and the technology used to analyse it.

This talk is free and open to all! Book via this link: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/hidden-in-plain-sight-looking-at-changes-to-the-richard-iiis-book-of-hours-tickets-1990490644099?aff=oddtdtcreator

Please note: this event will also be available to watch live online. If you wish to attend virtually, please book a separate ticket.

The event will take place from 2-3 pm on Friday 10th July.

A reminder that our next Saturday opening is 6th June!

📚Book your Reading Room slot via our website now! 📖

https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/using-the-library/registering-and-booking/

✨Our Garden Exhibition 'Over the Wall' is open as usual - free of charge and no booking required! ✨

This does not include entry to the garden.

🌿 Our current exhibition, Over the Wall, is now open! 🌿

Visit us to learn more about the historic garden at Lambeth Palace — and to meet one of its most beloved residents, Myshka! 🐾

We’re open weekdays, with an additional Saturday opening on 6th June.

Free entry and no booking required — just drop in!

This does not include entry to the garden.

[LPG 92]

And here’s another fox — this time keeping company with a range of other animals in a 13th‑century Bible.

This marginal scene, featuring a fox, a cat, a cockerel, and an elephant, appears at the opening of the first prologue of Jerome.

Can you spot the fox?

[MS 89, f1r]

Today the church celebrates Augustine, missionary to Kent and first Archbishop of Canterbury, who died on this day in 604 AD.

This frontispiece shows Augustine bringing the Gospel to King Æthelberht of Kent in 597, with an anachronistic Canterbury Cathedral in the background.

[H5033.C6]

Today the Church celebrates Venerable Bede, monk at Jarrow, scholar & historian, who died in 735.

Pictured here, Bede's work on chronology is entitled De temporibus and was printed in Venice in 1509.

[JE73.B3]

Today is Pentecost.

Acts 2. 4: 'All of them were filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak in other tongues as the Spirit enabled them.'

This image is from the Honresfield Book of Hours, 15th century.

[MS5204, f90v]

Reminder to get your tickets!

Join us for 'Getting it Wrong in the Counter-Reformation: Religious Orders in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure’, a talk held in conjunction with the Institute of Historical Research.

This talk is free and open to all! Book via the link below: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/institute-of-historical-research-seminar-tickets-1987898071645?aff=oddtdtcreator

The event will take place from 5-6:30 pm on Tuesday 23rd June.