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Index of categories

|| All pages || All categories || Catalogues || Donors || Provenance || Shelfmarks || Armorial bindings ||

|| Canons of Canterbury || Stall I || Stall V || Stall VII || Stall IX || Stall XI ||

|| Archbishops || Archdeacons of Canterbury || Six Preachers || Librarians ||

Number of pages : 98

History

• Canterbury Cathedral Library : a chronology
  A summary chronology of the libraries of Canterbury Cathedral from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present-day.

• Canterbury Cathedral Librarians since the Reformation
  A chronological list of known office-holders in the Library and Archives of Canterbury Cathedral from c.1600.

• The Earliest Books of Canterbury Cathedral
  A catalogue by Professor Richard Gameson of the manuscripts and fragments to c. 1200 AD in the Cathedral Library, published by the Bibliographical Society, the British Library and the Dean and Chapter of Canterbury, 2008.

• Books acquired by Canterbury Cathedral in 1551
  A transcription of Christ Church Letters, vol. II, item 212, listing 19 works in 30 volumes delivered to the Cathedral on 12 October 1551.

• The 1634 inventory of the contents of Canterbury Cathedral Library
  An inventory made under the supervision of Canon Meric Casaubon on the occasion of Archbishop Laud's Visitation. The inventory of the Library recorded 31 printed books and 27 manuscripts.

• List of printed books, 1638
  A book list labelled 'Catal. Libroru[m] editoru[m] in Biblioth. Chr. Cant. 4. Dece. 1638'.

• Canterbury Cathedral
  The official web site of Canterbury Cathedral, with pages for the Library and Archives.

Provenance – donors, previous owners, etc.

• Canterbury Cathedral Library donors
  A chronological list of provenance evidence relating to the history of Canterbury Cathedral and its Library before c. 1900

• Benefactors' Book (CCL Lit. MS E40)
  • A transcription of the entries in the Cathedral Library's seventeenth-century Benefactors' Book.
  • Identification and commentary on the names in the Benefactors' Book.

• John and William Somner
  Entries in Canterbury Cathedral's Donors' Book, c. 1665, recording gifts of books to the new library by the antiquarian William Somner and his brother John. With translations and notes.

• Books owned by William Somner
  A list of books with ownership inscriptions or manuscript annotations by William Somner, mainly from the collection purchased from his widow in 1669.

• Books given to William Somner by Meric Casaubon
  Illustration and transcription of Somner's annotation in one of his books.

• Jonas Owyn and Archbishop Juxon
  In 1668 the Rev. Jonas Owyn, Rector of Sibertswold cum Colred (Sheperdswell with Coldred), gave the Cathedral Library his copy of the Douai Bible in which he had recorded Archbishop Juxon's contribution to the rebuilding of the Library.

• Amorial bindings
  Book bindings with coats of arms in the collections of the Dean and Chapter in Canterbury Cathedral Library
  • Whitgift bindings: Armorial bindings of Archbishop John Whitgift (c. 1530–1604)
  • Bancroft bindings: Armorial bindings of Archbishop Richard Bancroft (1544–1610)
  • Abbot bindings: Armorial bindings of Archbishop George Abbot (1562–1633)

• Canterbury Cathedral provenance data

Names of previous owners of books in Canterbury Cathedral Library printed before 1801.
A provisional list of 3152 former owners, based on the provenance index published in the microfiche catalogue of the Cathedral's books printed before 1801 (David Shaw and Sheila Hingley (and others), Canterbury Cathedral Library: Catalogue of pre-1801 printed books. Adam Matthew Publications, Marlborough, 1998. 24 pp + 17 microfiches).
Web pages hosted by the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)

Other Canterbury Libraries

Saint Augustine's Abbey

• Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues, Volume 13: St Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury, edited by B. C. Barker-Benfield. British Library (2008). 2256 pages, 3 volumes, 16 halftones. Read more ...

• A. B. Emden, Donors of Books to S. Augustine's Abbey, Canterbury. Oxford Bibliographical Society (1968).
• Surviving books from St Augustine's Abbey with the name of Clement Canterbury, librarian in the 15th century:
  • The Bible of Robert de Bello (British Library MS Burney 3): description, with digitised images
  • Medical recipes, charms, and veterinary lore relating to horses (Bodleian MS Wood mpt. 18): description and link to images

Sources for names

Some useful online resources for names, dates, career details, etc, for persons in the provenance lists for Canterbury Cathedral Library and similar data.