Welcome to the National Church Institutions Database of Manuscripts and Archives

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The catalogue holdings of Lambeth Palace Library and the Church of England Record Centre will shortly be moving onto a new database system called CALMView. CALMView is the successor to the old DServe catalogue which is being phased out. For a short while, the existing system will run in parallel with CALMView, but it will eventually be withdrawn.

This database contains information on manuscript and archive collections held at Lambeth Palace Library (LPL) and the Church of England Record Centre (CERC). The database includes a catalogue of manuscripts and archives, and separate databases of featured names and places.

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The collections listed in the database are held on two sites and the location for each record is noted in the catalogue description. For information on visiting Lambeth Palace Library, please click here and for contact details please click here. For information on visiting the Church of England Record Centre and contact details, please click here.

Cataloguing on to this system is ongoing and not all existing catalogues are yet available online. See what is currently included.

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MS 4502/13 (detail): Archbishop Tait