This project pulls together information about Henry Charles Lea and the Lea Library at the University of Pennsylvania.

Penn Almanac 5/13/08 article about the Mellon grant

Press release (May 2008): "The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has awarded a grant of $450,000 to the Penn Libraries to open the treasures of the Henry Charles Lea Library collection to a wider world. Mellon's generosity will open new avenues of scholarship by facilitating local and global access to the Lea Library collection, which is comprised of printed and manuscript materials documenting medieval and early modern Church history and the Inquisition."

Reprinted from The Penn Library Collections at 250: From Franklin to the Web, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Library, 2000), pages 33-59.

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The Penn Library Collections at 250

Early Modern History 

Henry Charles Lea Lectures

This lecture series honors Henry Charles Lea (1825-1909), one of America's greatest historians of the Middle Ages.

Lea's Library and papers are housed in the Rare Book and Manuscript Library. The lecture has been hosted annually by the Penn Libraries since 2004.

Vintage photograph of Lea's library in his home at 2000 Walnut Street, Philadelphia

Brief description of Lea collection and a brief Lea biography

Henry Charles Lea Papers - Biographical Sketch

360 degree view of the Lea Library

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Finding Aid 

Lea, Henry Charles, 1825-1909
Papers, ca. 1830-1935

Nice brief article (2007?) about the Lea Library in the Penn Current

2003 article on the Lea Library from the Pennsylvania Gazette