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Remembering the Reformation

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beze‘Remembering the Reformation’ is a new AHRC-funded project at the Universities of York and Cambridge, in collaboration with York Minster Library, Cambridge University Library, and Lambeth Palace Library.

The project will launch on 1 January 2016, and run for three years, coinciding with the 500th anniversary of Martin Luther’s protest against the Church in 1517. More information here.

Théodore de Bèze, A confession of faith, made by common consent of diuers reformed churches beyond the seas (London: Henry Bynneman, 1571), title-page.

Emmanuel College Library Special Collections Lecture: Giles Mandelbrote

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Giles Mandelbrote, Librarian and Archivist, Lambeth Palace Library
‘A Tale of Two Libraries (and one that got away) Lambeth Palace Library and Sion College Library in the Seventeenth Century’

Friday 15th May 2015, 2.15pm, The Laing Centre, Atrium, Emmanuel College Library

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Two notable ecclesiastical libraries were founded in London in the early seventeenth
century. Lambeth Palace Library was founded in 1610 as a resource for future Archbishops of Canterbury and benefited from the involvement and interest of several seventeenth-century archbishops, including William Sancroft (Archbishop of Canterbury, 1678-90). Sion College Library (now also at Lambeth) was established in 1629 as a library for the City of London clergy. This illustrated talk will explore the reasons for these two foundations and the contrasting ways in which they developed during the first century of their existence.

Numbers are limited. Booking is essential and entry will be by free ticket only. Please book early by either e-mailing the College Library at library@emma.cam.ac.uk or telephone (01223) (3)34233. A ticket will be sent to you on receipt of booking.

Lambeth Palace library, prints 025/060A