PudFest 2024: a feast of flavour
Are you tired of the same old parade of treats on your festive table? Bored stiff by yet another Bûche de Noel? Are you looking… Read More »PudFest 2024: a feast of flavour
Manuscript Collection
New acquisition for Libraries and Museums: the St Andrews Chronicles
One of the most important histories of Scotland, which sheds new light on William Wallace and the Stone of Destiny, has found its permanent home… Read More »New acquisition for Libraries and Museums: the St Andrews Chronicles
The colour aniline purple – housing silk textiles from the Calvert Chemistry Collection
Bringing in collections Incoming university collections are routinely checked for dirt, mould and insect activity before being cleaned, rehoused and shelved in the stores. Not… Read More »The colour aniline purple – housing silk textiles from the Calvert Chemistry Collection
Notarial marks in the St Andrews burgh charters
Scottish History PhD candidate Kate McGregor has been has been working for the past year as a Research Assistant on a project investigating notaries and… Read More »Notarial marks in the St Andrews burgh charters
‘The Usurpers’ by Willa Muir
We recently celebrated the publication of a novel which had waited 70 years to get into print. This is Willa Muir’s ‘new’ novel, The… Read More »‘The Usurpers’ by Willa Muir
Robert Burns Night
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 »Robert Burns Night
The Yule Days – Day 6 – ‘Three goldspinks’
The king sent his lady on the sixth Yule day, Three goldspinks, three starlings, a goose that was gray, Three plovers, three partridges, a papingo-aye;… Read More »The Yule Days – Day 6 – ‘Three goldspinks’
The Yule Days – Day 1 – ‘A papingo-aye’
The king sent his lady on the first Yule day, A papingo-aye; Wha learns my carol and carries it away? Pippin-go-aye or papingo-aye is a… Read More »The Yule Days – Day 1 – ‘A papingo-aye’
RTI imaging fragments of ‘The Romances of Kyng Alisander’, strays from the Auchinleck manuscript
Continuing the series of blog posts on the recent RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) workshop, Phoebe MacIndoe looks at the fragments of ‘The Romances of Kyng… Read More »RTI imaging fragments of ‘The Romances of Kyng Alisander’, strays from the Auchinleck manuscript
Conjuring the Light and Shadow in the Past: The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Workshop
The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technique opens up new horizons for the close study of the materiality of palpable objects like manuscripts. It reveals things… Read More »Conjuring the Light and Shadow in the Past: The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) Workshop
RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) Workshop 2 – hidden features brought into the light
At a workshop back in April I applied RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) to the processing of images of a twelfth-century parchment leaf and found some… Read More »RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) Workshop 2 – hidden features brought into the light
The St Andrew manuscript ‘cutting’ and reflectance transformation imaging (RTI)
As light glimmers over the fifteenth-century illuminated initial, the calm and focused expression on the face of our university’s eponym St Andrew remains unchanged.… Read More »The St Andrew manuscript ‘cutting’ and reflectance transformation imaging (RTI)