Thomas Plume's Library

A great course with spaces still available during week two of #LRBS26, designed to equip students with the necessary skillset to identify fakes Get your tickets by 31st May 2026 👉️ buff.ly/ijaSo3a #rarebooks #LRBS26

Thank you to @thefnl.bsky.social for this fantastic book: The Essayes, or Morall and militarie discourses of Lo. Michaell de Montaigne, … new done into English by John Florio, 1603. Donated from the Blavatnik Honresfield Library by the Friends of the Nations’ Libraries.

Short-term post-doc for arts/humanities researchers! Do you love rare books, manuscripts, archives, art and/or objects? Would you like to explore one of our amazing Cultural Collections @universityofleeds.bsky.social for c. 6 weeks (longer part-time)? Find out more lahri.leeds.ac.uk/brotherton-f...

The @ihr.bsky.social Late Medieval Seminar series for autumn 2025 is now published. Themes from ladies in waiting to the custom house, and a roundtable on editing sources. All seminars are hybrid (or fully online), also, I'm now one of the convenors! www.history.ac.uk/news-events/...

We're looking forward to hosting Dr Sophie Butler for this year's Plume Lecture on Saturday 27th September. Join us if you can!

Thank you so much to @thefnl.bsky.social for funding the purchase of these three books as replacements for those missing from Plume's collection!

On 8 June we put on a special exhibition about "Crime" (inc religious crime, witchcraft, financial crime, high treason, impeachment, etc) for visitors to The Essex Book Festival's series of talks at Maldon Town Hall. Many visitors, inc @thestigabell & Seona Ford, Former Chair, Essex Book Festival.

Local news story on our Essex Libraries Bookscapes Event: maldon.nub.news/news/local-n...

Today's palaeography challenge: what is the name of the previous owner? James [?]. The book is De Baeza Ponferradiensis, Soc. Jesu Theol. Commentariorum Agoricorum, Lyon 1635.

Title page of Hugo Herman's Pia Desideria (Antwerp 1632). All the plates in this book are coloured in. If you would like to study any of Thomas Plume's books, please email us to book an appointment. Contact details and catalogue available on our website www.thomasplumeslibrary.co.uk.

Views from the top of St Peter's Tower (part of the Plume Building) taken by a colleague at Maldon Town Council who went up there yesterday to check the structure.

Thomas Plume's Library is now a member of the Association of Independent Museums aim-museums.co.uk

Presented for your consideration: A hybrid book! A manuscript collection of texts of hymns and prayers (written in Germany at the end of the 15th c.) bound with slightly later printed pastoral works appropriate for a priest (printed in Augsburg in 1519). (Ms. Codex 1604) 🔗: bit.ly/3Xd1Voy

The Friends of Thomas Plume's Library have recently funded the purchase of another of our missing books: Thomas Cranmer's An Answer ... Unto a craftie and sophisticall cauillation, London: Printed by John Daye... 1580.

In sunny Colchester for the latest @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes workshop (run out of @memsunikent.bsky.social) to see some of the delights in @universityofessex.bsky.social Special Collections.

Day 2 of the @chase-dtp.bsky.social Bookscapes and we are in the historic town of Maldon to see Thomas Plume's Library under the expert guidance of Dr Helen Kemp.

Final visit on this Bookscapes whistle-stop tour of Essex is to the Knightbridge Library bequeathed in 1679 to what is now Chelmsford Cathedral.

Bookscapes, which is run by @memsunikent.bsky.social (and funded by CHASE), is organising its next workshop: a two-day visit to historic collections in Essex. Do drop a line to Bookscapes (or DM me) if you want to join us: blogs.kent.ac.uk/memsnews/202...