Scotland’s Poet: Robert Burns in Special Collections
People in Scotland, and all around the world, will be cutting into a haggis today or lifting a wee dram to the memory of Robert… Read More »Scotland’s Poet: Robert Burns in Special Collections
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52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 32: A Gothic heavy-weight
This week’s fantastic binding was first brought to my attention by our reading room staff when they posted some photographs of it on our Facebook… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 32: A Gothic heavy-weight
Not a bad way to end a day
This very pretty book was the last book off my shelf today for cataloguing. Not a bad way to end a day, eh? This is… Read More »Not a bad way to end a day
Inspired by…the carved stone – a MUSA lunchtime talk
The next talk in the “Inspired by…” series at MUSA is this Thursday, 19 January 2012, at 1 pm. Join Richard Welander, Head of Collections… Read More »Inspired by…the carved stone – a MUSA lunchtime talk
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 31: a gift from the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot
Our collections, like most historic collections, are littered with hundreds of armorial stamped bindings, ranging from the 16th to 19th century. These bindings are wonderful… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 31: a gift from the Archbishop of Canterbury, George Abbot
Cataloguer’s conundrum: Can anyone identify this 14th century Italian motif?
***For a full update on this conundrum, see this post from 12 March 2012.*** This is the first folio of a beautiful, mid 14th century… Read More »Cataloguer’s conundrum: Can anyone identify this 14th century Italian motif?
500 year old inky fingerprints uncovered in German incunabule
Whilst recataloguing our copy of a 1473 Augsburg printing of a collection of works in German (including a translation of Pope Gregory I‘s Dialogorum libri… Read More »500 year old inky fingerprints uncovered in German incunabule
Cataloguer’s conundrum: Can anyone tell us what church this is? Is it still extant?
Our post last December on an unidentified French Book of Hours received a huge response and helped us to narrow down exactly which book it… Read More »Cataloguer’s conundrum: Can anyone tell us what church this is? Is it still extant?
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 30: 16th century Hebrew text bound in a leaf of a 12th or 13th century manuscript
This week’s binding post caught my eye as I was reshelving some items. As you can see in the picture above, this book stands out… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 30: 16th century Hebrew text bound in a leaf of a 12th or 13th century manuscript
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
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