**re-posted from the Special Collections Department home page** Special Collections is pleased to announce the resumption of services from 27th June, after our move to… Read More »Re-opening of Special Collections from 27th June 2011
Having been inspired by a recent conference in Oxford (9 June 2011) entitled “The place of bindings in book history and bibliography: resources and research”… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 1
Special Collections have produced a book featuring 50 of the most important and intriguing items from the varied collections that we hold, including rare books, illuminated manuscripts,… Read More »Treasures of St Andrews University Library book now available
Bound-with volumes, or analytical volumes, are often the bane of a cataloguer’s existence and are sometimes the last items to come off of a shelf… Read More »Edinburgensia: A collection of over 60 17th-19th century items in one volume
The anonymous “Cloud of witnesses” (St Andrews item TypBE.D14XX) came up recently while working through the Edinburgh section of the Typographical Collection. This is the… Read More »Rare edition of “A cloud of witnesses” with eerie frontispiece
The Department of Special Collections has been closed since February 2011 to move the collections to a new facility so that refurbishment work can be… Read More »Access to Special Collections
Hello from St Andrews! This is our first post on our new blog, Echoes from the Vault, and we are very excited to see where… Read More »Hello World!
