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
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)
Queen Elizabeth II is the first British Monarch to celebrate 70 years of service. Her reign is already longer than the reigns of her four… Read More »The Queen’s Platinum Jubilee 2022
On the weekend of 6-8 May the University hosted a Folger Symposium on ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’. This was the culmination of four years of… Read More »Folger Symposium – ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’
This is the second part of a blog series about Special Collections’ remote enquiry service, and the types of questions we answer using collections material.… Read More »Anatomy of an enquiry, part 2: historical firsts
With the completion of a 26-month project, the Franki Raffles Photography Collection has now been fully catalogued. The online catalogue of the photographs in this… Read More »The Franki Raffles Photography Collection
Heather Curtis, a first-year PhD student at the University of St Andrews, has won the Scottish Records Association’s Tunnock Prize – an award for an… Read More »Getting muddy with manuscripts
In the next part of our series highlighting the Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums, gifted to the University Library a few years ago, we take a… Read More »Horace Walpole to John Pinkerton, 1794
In the next part of our series highlighting the Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums, gifted to the University Library a few years ago, we take a… Read More »William Wordsworth to Benjamin Dockray, c.1840
In the next part of our series highlighting the Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums, gifted to the University Library a few years ago, we take… Read More »Lord Byron to Canon Hodgson, 1811
The Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums, gifted to the University Library a few years ago, contain a fascinating collection of historical documents associated with some… Read More »Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832) and the ‘Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border’
In this ‘Behind the Scenes’ blog post we take a look at one of the volunteer projects that has been ongoing in the Special Collections… Read More »Cataloguing architectural plans of the Dean of Guild
