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October Library Newsletter
Book Launch and Reception: Turning Points in Prayer Book History
Book Launch and Reception: Turning Points in Prayer Book History
Date: Wednesday, October 21
Time: 4:30 - 5:45 pm
Location: Bishop Payne Library, Library Commons, 3640 Bishop Walker Circle, Alexandria, Virginia 22304
You're invited to a book launch and...
New Display! Private Prayers: Lay Devotion in Tudor England
"Private Prayers: Lay Devotion in Tudor England" is a new display right outside the Bishop Payne Library's rare book room. Drawing on materials from both the VTS and GTS collections, it tells the story of sixteenth-century English lay devotion beyond...
Repairing the Aitken Bible
In January of 1781, a printer named Robert Aitken submitted a petition to the new U.S. Congress, hoping to garner their support for his endeavor to print the first complete American Bible. During the Revolution, the volume of imported English Bibles...
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