Last weekend marked the close of another cataloguing project: bringing all of the records for our incunabula collection (pre-1501 printed works) up to a full… Read More »Full cataloguing of the St Andrews Incunabula Collection complete!
As we begin to round out our last 10 binding posts, it’s time to start getting out the treasures! This week’s binding feature is one… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 42: 15th century Qur’an bound in contemporary gold-stamped goatskin
Our commemorative Burns’ Day blog post included a late 19th century photograph published by Valentine & Sons of Dundee featuring the Robert Burn’s boyhood cottage… Read More »Research on 19th century publican clarifies date of Valentine photograph
The second of a two-part series, by Dr Natalie Adamson, highlighting some recent acquisitions in support of the new Photographic Books Collection at the Department… Read More »Paris Mortel: Photobooks of Paris from the 1950s to Today
Earlier this week, our Muniments Archivist, Rachel Hart, was browsing our early print collections for images of Easter for another publication. You can imagine my… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 41: gorgeous early 16th century French clasps
Last year I was working on this item from our Typograhpical Collection and stumbled upon the present conundrum. Featured above is the title page to… Read More »Cataloguer’s Conundrum: an 18th century imprint on 19th century paper??
This week’s binding feature is one of four incunabula held in the George Hay Forbes Collection. This week, as I was wrapping up cataloguing of… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 40: a stunning 16th century pigskin and medieval manuscript half binding
The first of a two-part series, by Dr Natalie Adamson, highlighting some recent acquisitions in support of the new Photographic Books Collection at the Department… Read More »Photo-Eye: New Photobook Acquisitions in Special Collections
Our Photographic Collections team was hard at work yesterday installing an exhibition in St Andrews Public Library for this weekend’s StAnza Festival. The exhibition, entitled… Read More »CREATIVE CAPTURE: Exhibition open for StAnza!
The next installment of the King James Library Lectures is this upcoming Monday, 19 March 2012, at 5:15pm in School II, St Andrews. Professor Marina… Read More »Professor Marina Warner, University of Essex, to speak on “The Library in Fiction” at next King James Library Lecture
In January 2012, we posted a plea for help in identifying a motif found in one of our medieval manuscripts: msBR65.A9S2 – a Pseudo-Augustinian Sermones… Read More »A conundrum solved, collectively: a 15th century Italian manuscript identified
We return this week back to the work of book designer John Leighton (featured in week 33). I don’t normally like to cover the same… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 39: the pinnacle of a 19th century book designer
