Reading room opened for the New Year
The reading room re-opened for the New Year this morning, and is already busy with researchers. If you’d like to book a space to consult… Read More »Reading room opened for the New Year
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New Year, New Look, New(ish) Blog!
As you may have noticed, we’ve changed the layout and style of our blog. We had a great response to the launch of this blog… Read More »New Year, New Look, New(ish) Blog!
Rare book auction in Edinburgh, 11 January 2012
Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull will be hosting their latest Rare book, Maps and Manuscripts sale on 11 January 2012. This is a great chance… Read More »Rare book auction in Edinburgh, 11 January 2012
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 29: Conservators at work
What better way to bring in the New Year than dedicating our last binding post of 2011 to those who take our old stuff and… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 29: Conservators at work
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 28: A 16th century classic beautifully rebound in the 19th century
This week’s fantastic binding is hard to miss when your sifting through the stacks of 16th century Italian books. Most of our books in the… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 28: A 16th century classic beautifully rebound in the 19th century
Look at this lovely 15th century manicula!
As I was working through one of Archbishop William Scheves’ collected volumes of incunabula, I came across one of his wonderful manicula (or fist, or… Read More »Look at this lovely 15th century manicula!
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 27: The biggest incunabula on our shelves
This week’s binding gem is hard to miss and it is in the queue to be recatalogued fully in the next few weeks, but I… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 27: The biggest incunabula on our shelves
Highlight: Photographers home and abroad – Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson and Rodger
Following on from our previous Highlight posts, in this post Elisabeth Dearden takes a look at three defining photojournalistic works published by Robert Delpire. If… Read More »Highlight: Photographers home and abroad – Doisneau, Cartier-Bresson and Rodger
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 26: A 15th century edition of Josephus bound in near contemporary reverse sheep with a cover title inside a horn window
Sometimes you can tell a book by its cover. This book caught my eye as I was pulling some items from the incunabula section because… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 26: A 15th century edition of Josephus bound in near contemporary reverse sheep with a cover title inside a horn window
Have you seen this Book of Hours? We need your help!
I came across this unidentified item while working my way through some French incunabula. It is a heavily illustrated, French Book of Hours which is… Read More »Have you seen this Book of Hours? We need your help!
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 25: the earliest Swedish book in our collection, bound in Sweden c. 1577
This week’s binding gem is the Rare Book Collection’s only recorded early (pre-1900) Swedish imprint: Archbishop Laurentius Petri’s Then Swenska Kyrkeordningen, printed in Stockholm by… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 25: the earliest Swedish book in our collection, bound in Sweden c. 1577
Special Collections gets social with its new Facebook page!
The Special Collections Department of the University of St Andrews Library went live with its new Facebook page last night here: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Special-Collections-University-of-St-Andrews-Library/263943763651068 The department plans… Read More »Special Collections gets social with its new Facebook page!