Cantate Domino: Music in the Lambeth Palace Library Collections Goes on Show

The inaugural exhibition for the Lambeth Palace Library’s new exhibition room celebrates musical treasures held in its library, placing better-known holdings alongside lesser-known volumes and fragments from the collections.

The exhibition features the Arundel Choirbook (one of the most important records of Tudor polyphonic music), Sion College’s illuminated York Breviary from the 15th century, and sermon notes pertinent to the composition of the hymn Amazing Grace which is celebrating its 250th anniversary this year.

These are displayed alongside numerous other beautiful and interesting examples of music in the Library’s collections found in a variety of forms and spanning the 11th to 20th centuries. The exhibition is curated by Warburg PhD student Mary Clayton-Kastenholz.

This free exhibition runs through 18 September 2023 and there is also an accompanying interactive digital exhibition divided into four section, Hymns and Songs of the Church, Music in Services, Teaching Music, and Preserved by Chance

In addition, an hour-long concert sung by The Olympia Singers with Tom Williams conducting, including private view of the exhibition, will be held in conjunction with the exhibition on July 11, including selections from the Arundel Choirbook and Archbishop Parker’s Psalms. Find details about tickets here.