During a grueling (if not long-lived) summer heat wave, the Lighting the Past team has kept nice and cool in Special Collections where we’ve been… Read More »Lighting the Past: Next up, the Anderson Collection!
In November 2011 a post on this blog highlighted Theodor de Bry’s Grand Voyages. This is a hefty and multi-faceted tome, and, as a reprographic… Read More »400 years of metamorphosis: Theodor de Bry and Natalie Taylor on Jaques le Moyne De Morgues
We have had a busy few weeks supporting our academic colleagues during sunny conference season. The 600th anniversary has provided a big draw for conferences… Read More »Showing off this summer! — exhibitions and conferences
This year’s “52 Weeks of …” thread has now come to a close and it is time, once again, to finish the series with our… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations: Reflections and Visual Index
In this week of April Fools pranks (or ‘hunting the gowks’ here in Scotland), I’ve been investigating forgeries, fakes and falsehoods in our collections and… Read More »April Fools: FORGERIES, FAKES AND FALSEHOODS
Whilst undertaking research for my MSc dissertation on David Hay Fleming (1849-1931) as a book collector, I came across some intriguing correspondence (msdep113/2/4) regarding a… Read More »David Hay Fleming and the Bronze Bowl
UPDATED 13 March 2013 One of the rare book team’s long-standing projects has been the creation of a rare Children’s Book Collection, assembled from a… Read More »J. M. Barrie inscription found in the Children’s Book Collection
This June, the Department of Special Collections launched Lighting the Past, a project to catalogue the 150,000 books not currently represented in the University Library’s… Read More »Completed: a Grand Gathering of the Geographical Gallimaufry!
Here’s a Hallowe’en treat from Special Collections at St Andrews! Featured below is the manuscript poem for Andrew Lang‘s “Ballade of a choice of ghosts”… Read More »Happy Hallowe’en! Andrew Lang’s own illustrated copy of “Ballade of a choice of ghosts”
Greetings once again from the Scanning Suite here at Special Collections. This post brings you a few images from the St Andrews Citizen, our local… Read More »“You’ll Never Be Grumpy if You Do Your Motoring in a Vauxhall”: the St Andrews Citizen 60 years ago
At 3:45 p.m. on this very day, 5 October, in 1785, an Italian by the name of Vincenzo Lunardi lifted off in his “aerostatic machine”… Read More »The Italian and his Balloon: “An account of five aerial voyages in Scotland” by Vincenzo Lunardi
In 1893, King Chulalongkorn ordered the first printing ever of the Tipitaka (or, “the three baskets,” the Pali canon which forms the doctrinal foundation of… Read More »Cataloguing efforts uncover a royal gift to the University of St Andrews from the King of Siam in 1896
