| Repository | Lambeth Palace Library |
| Level | File |
| Alt Ref No | MS 3349 |
| Extent | 320 folios |
| Title | Inventories etc. of Lambeth Palace |
| Date | 1905-1968 |
| Description | Miscellaneous lists and inventories of furniture, paintings, plate and other items at Lambeth Palace, including correspondence concerning the establishment of a trust to hold heirlooms. Also included are a copy of an inscription on a Portuguese reliquary containing the blood of Christ, 1905 (ff.1-3);
the gift of an ikon by the Oecumenical Patriarch, 1929 (ff.34-41);
a letter to Miss Faithfull from Lionel Henry Cust, Director of the National Portrait Gallery, 17 February 1906, about tapestries at Aix-en-Provence said to have been removed from St. Paul's cathedral (London) after the Civil War (f.76);
the donation of a mace by Frederick Anthony White, 1912 (ff.78-85);
an account by Francis Carolus Eeles, liturgical scholar, of vestments said to have belonged to Cardinal Reginald Pole (Archbishop of Canterbury), 1924 (ff.98-107);
letters concerning an Elizabethan table, 1931 (ff.183-7);
photographs of bosses in the Post Room, 1934 (ff.192-8). (ff.1-206).
Historical notes on Lambeth Palace and on Archbishops of Canterbury, including (f.207) a note on the Davidson Memorial (to Randall Thomas Davidson, Archbishop of Canterbury) [20th century], (ff.208-210v) an account of the postwar restoration of Lambeth Palace from The Builder, 1948, (ff.211-15) photograph and notes on a wall painting, 1951, (ff.216-36) notes on the stained glass in the chapel, 1921-52. (ff.207-320). |
| PublnNote | Manuscript cited in Steffen Weishaupt's article on portraits of Martin Luther: "Anglican (Re-)Presentation? Two Paintings of Luther at Lambeth Palace", 'Anglican and Episcopal History', vol 86, no 4, Dec 2017, pp. 396-418. |
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| Code | Name | Dates |
| DS/UK/4487 | Eeles; Francis Carolus (1876-1954); liturgical scholar and historian | 1876-1954 |
| 41 | Pole; Reginald (1500-1558); Cardinal; Archbishop of Canterbury | 1500-1558 |
| 15 | Davidson; Randall Thomas (1848-1930); Baron Davidson of Lambeth; Archbishop of Canterbury | 1848-1930 |
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| Code | Set |
| PL2 | Lambeth Palace/Lambeth/Surrey |