Since Archbishop's Abbot's death in 1633, Lambeth Palace Library has been home to most of his library, amounting to some 2,600 books and manuscripts. Several strays are recorded elsewhere, however, and this volume, in a contemporary binding with Abbot’s gilt-stamped arms, came to light in the dispersal of the rare book collection of Washington National Cathedral, Washington DC. The Library is especially pleased to acquire it because of the close relationship of the author to Abbot himself, because of the presence at Lambeth of the authorial manuscript of part of this text, and - not least - because of the interesting and complex textual and historical questions posed by the annotations in this particular copy.
This grant was awarded from FNL's B. H. Breslauer Fund, thanks to the generosity of the President and Officers of the B. H. Breslauer Foundation.