Have you ever read a golden book? Dr Sarah Griffin, Assistant Archivist, looks at illuminated images in one of Lambeth Palace Library’s medieval manuscripts (MS 522), and how their reflective, golden surfaces respond to light.
This is the remarkable story of Lambeth Palace Library’s copy of the first quarto of Henry IV part II and how it came into the hands of Richard Bancroft, Bishop of London and later Archbishop of Canterbury.
Sarah Griffin, Assistant Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library, tells us about one of her favourite objects in the exhibition ‘Moral & Material Decay: Four centuries of the Court of Arches’, a cartulary of Fineshade Abbey, 13th–14th century [Arches Ff 291].
Assistant Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library, Sarah Griffin, tells us about one of her favourite objects – a bill of costs (Arches H 997/60, January 1825–July 1828). This roll records detailed costs of a case from the 1820s relating to the alleged insanity of the Earl of Portsmouth.
A talk given by curator Mary Clayton-Kastenholz, for the Society of Bookbinders on 8 September 2023, pertaining to the Cantate Domino Exhibition here at Lambeth Palace Library, which ran 23 June to 18 September 2023.
Rachel Freeman, Archivist at Lambeth Palace Library, tells us about one of her favourite objects, a cross section of the Grand Staircase and Hall at Stockeld Park, Yorkshire (1795) – Arches D 1395. This interior of Stockeld Park was presented to the Court of Arches to test the credibility of witness statements in the trial of Clara Louisa Middleton for adultery.
Lambeth Palace Library invites you behind the scenes, to see how we created our Summer 2023 exhibition: ‘Moral & Material Decay: Four centuries of the Court of Arches’.
In this podcast members of the Library staff, in conversation with Andrew Foster, talk about what the Library was, what it is now, and what it aims to be in the future.
This roll lists legal costs incurred in relation to an allegation of insanity as grounds to annul the 3rd Earl of Portsmouth’s marriage. At approximately 30 metres long, our archives and conservation staff had to create a special platform on the floor of one of our archive stores to lay it out. Arches H 997/60