June 3 Lecture (Wren Library, Lincoln Cathedral, England) - on KJV 400th Anniversary

From NEWS online posted by Lincoln Cathedral
http://www.ccj.org.uk/lincolnapril.pdf
The Lincoln Cathedral, Minster Yard, Lincoln, Linconlshire, United Kingdom
www.lincolncathedral.com/

will be celebrating the
400th anniversary of the
King James Bible with a
lecture and exhibitions,
and a new children’s
Bible. There will be an
exhibition of books and
manuscripts in Lincoln
Cathedral Library. . .
Professor Croft, a trustee
of the King James Bible
Trust, is the author of
King James (published by Palgrave MacMillan, 2003).
A children's Bible of
3000 verses taken from
the King James Bible,
written and illustrated by
students in Church
Schools in Lincoln
Diocese, is being produced.

Four Hundred Years of the King James Bible:
the English Bible through the Ages. The
exhibition runs from 23 May to 30 July 2011.
Among other historic Bibles, the Lincoln
Chapter Bible, vol. 1, c.1100, the earliest
English illustrated Romanesque Bible,
commissioned for use in the newly-built
Lincoln Cathedral by Nicholas,
Archdeacon of Huntingdon, will be on
display in the Library exhibition, along
with a Wycliffe New Testament, a mid-
15th century manuscript, and a 1611
imprint of the King James Bible.

A lecture by Professor Pauline Croft of
Royal Holloway University of London,
“The Making of the King James Bible,
1604 - 1611,” will be held on Friday 3
June in Lincoln Cathedral’s Wren Library
at 7.30 p.m.
Tickets are £6 each, and are available by post. Please send a cheque made payable to ‘Lincoln Cathedral’and a stamped, self-addressed envelope to TICKETS, Lincoln Cathedral Library, The Cathedral, Lincoln LN2 1PX (telephone 01522 561618, or 561640).