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Emma Anderson, Assistant Curator, talks about women's involvement in #books during the #EarlyModern period including sponsoring, writing, translating and printing as featured in 'Her Booke' exhibition at #LambethPalaceLibrary

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@earlymodern
#Feminism

https://youtu.be/-imle7_UdnQ?si=dOlRXc-9Im0SvXzQ

Background: wooden shelves with many multi-coloured book spines.
Foreground: Young woman seated at a table.

That Friday feeling.

#LambethPalaceLibrary
Sion Arc L40.2/L2

#MedievalManuscripts
#Manuscripts
#DecoratedManuscripts
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Parchment substrate with three vertical rules positioned at the left.
A head facing to the right rendered in blue ink. The mouth is open with a long horizontal flourish projecting right.

Every Saturday needs a #dragon

#LambethPalaceLibrary
Sion Arc L40.2/L2

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#IlluminatedManuscripts

A gold outlined diamond shape framing a dragon with a red head, green neck grey/blue bodyand green tail. The dragon is looking up and to the left. Both feet are slightly stepping in it's own tail.

#Manuscript #Scorpion
spotted during initial condition checking for the next exhibition.

#LambethPalaceLibrary
MS 35 f.117r

Cream coloured parchment substrate with fine ink line drawing of a scorpion with head facing right and tail curled at the left.

Five minutes with Curator, Dr Julia King about preparing for the current exhibition 'Her Booke' Early Modern Women and their Books @ #LambethPalaceLibrary

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@bookhistodons

https://youtu.be/GYi3h2TAzyE?si=iM7CZu2I-VCqQkvb

An orange book cradle with a small book being held open with two hands.

YouTube video title: 'Her Booke': Interview with Dr Julia King, Rare Books Librarian

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Come to see a first edition in paper publisher bindings at the exhibition 'Her booke' Early Modern Women and their Books @ #LambethPalaceLibrary in London, UK

Sion College Library Collection
K71.4/SH4F

#EarlyModern
#EarlyModernWomen
@histodons
@bookhistodons
#Manuscripts

Display case with maroon fabric base. At right, volume open on a cradle. To the immediate left, two closed volumes, one stop another.

Rest of case in picture includes two volumes displayed open and a two page letter.

#LambethPalaceLibrary is delighted to announce the opening of the exhibition 'Her booke': Early Modern Women and their Books.
Free admission during opening hours or attend a London located event.

https://www.lambethpalacelibrary.info/exhibitions/her-booke/

A drawing of Elizabeth in a brightly coloured interior with red/pink curtains, green floral walls.
Title: Her booke
Early Modern Women and their Books at Lambeth Palace Library.

Two more steps accomplished for #exhibition opening:
- panels installed
- case interiors cleaned

Her Booke - Early Modern Women and their Books

#LambethPalaceLibrary
#HerBooke
#EarlyModern
@histodons
@bookhistodons

Green walled exhibition room with wooden floors. Overhead lights shining on three (redacted) panels with multi-coloured borders.
Three empty display cases each with small datalogger in the front corner.

@overholt

Ooohhhhs & aaahhhhs from the #LambethPalaceLibrary crew.

We have an objects trained conservator who joined our team very recently. I just assigned reviewing the site as a working from home task.

#Manuscripts
#BookHistory

@histodons @medievodons @librarians

One of the amazing things about working with collections at #LambethPalaceLibrary is that you can take yourself up to the stores to see a figure featured in a volume.

In this case it is the decoration featuring Grosseteste in our MS522 described in Dennis Duncan's Index, A History of the.

#library
#CollectionCare

Book cover with title:
Ind x, A History of the by Dennis Duncan

A person leaning over a bound manuscript on a desk in a reading room.

The season of hosted classes started at #LambethPalaceLibrary this week.

#MedievalManuscripts & Documents for #University_College_London

#Archives
#MiseEnPage
#Colophon

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@histodons
@bookhistodons

Bland meeting room. Wood topped meeting table. Two grey book cushions each with large leather binding with parchment textblock. Two groups of people looking and pointing at the volumes.

An insight into preparing a giant Romanesque bible for an international exhibition loan including imaging and documentation at #LambethPalaceLibrary
#Manuscripts
#IlluminatedManuscripts

https://monumentoffame.org/2023/12/15/a-giant-task-digitising-the-lambeth-bible/

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@histodons
@IHR_History

Two decorations and illuminations from The Lambeth Bible.

Subtitle reads All the details and nothing but the details.

Institute of English Studies visited #LambethPalaceLibrary this week to learn about some of our treasures including the Anglo-Saxon Psalter, 12th century Lambeth Bibles, etc.
#Outreach
#CollectionCare
#IES
#histodons
#medievodons
@histodons
@medievodons

Four students and one lecturer looking at a parchment volume. Two Lambeth Bibles in the foreground

New Cardinal Pole exhibition with
#LambethPalaceLibrary, London
#NewCollegeLibrary, Oxford
#VenerableEnglishCollege, Rome and
#Bodleian

Come and explore Pole’s life and turbulent times – open until 15 December 2023.

More details: lambethpalacelibrary.info

Exhibition poster featuring a portrait of Cardinal Pole in red cardinal hat.
Title: Reformation Cardinal

Reception hall of Lambeth Palace Library. A semi-circlebof people watching a man speak

Exhibition Room with narrow upright case on the left. Top volume is Nuremberg Chronicle. Case directly ahead displays Cardinal Pole crest. In the distance is a facsimile of Michaelangelo's fresco.

An insight into how my colleagues and I prepared our current display at #LambethPalaceLibrary about archive material along with preservation and conservation considerations.

https://youtu.be/uJGY2O_4b7k?si=tgQay_DSC93hUljC

#Conservation
#Archives
#Exhibitions
#CollectionCare