Bede, Opera (volume 2), with manuscript leaves, 1521
/Dr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.
Read MoreDr Christopher Monk leaves through a volume of Bede’s second opera in the Chapter Library collection featuring two medieval manuscript paste-downs.
Read MoreLibrary volunteer Myra Amor explores the stories of three successive bishops of Rochester each accused of treason.
Read MoreLibrary volunteer Myra Amor introduces John Speed and his Theatre of the empire of Great-Britain and A prospect of the most famous parts of the World published in 1676.
Read MoreRandolph Jones writes about a revolutionary time when the future and soul of the country hung in the balance.
Read MoreStuart Palmer, University of Kent, shares with us a mighty message.
Read MoreSuzy Micklewright hunts down the well-known but seldom-seen bookworms.
Read MoreA rare misprinted bible printed by John Baskett of Oxford in 1717, also known as the Vinegar Bible, was conserved by Lara Meredith in 2015 in advance of its exhibition in the Cathedral Crypt.
Read MoreCanterbury Cathedral Librarian Sheila Hingley studies the development of Rochester Cathedral Chapter Library from before the dissolution through the Early Modern Period.
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