In this week’s blog, Fatima Al Dhaif, a student studying for an MA in Conservation at Camberwell College of Arts, London, shares her experience of… Read More »Reviving Art: The process of conserving a manuscript
This week we present a manuscript of the sonnet ‘Fancy in Nubibus. Or The Poet in the Clouds’ by the poet, critic and philosopher Samuel… Read More »Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Fancy in Nubibus’, 1817
Last November, the archive team of the University Library’s Special Collections Division began work on the ‘Logjam’ project. The ‘Logjam’ methodology is based on a… Read More »Clearing the logjam
In 2017 the University of St Andrews Library was privileged to be entrusted with two albums containing letters and autographs from some of the most… Read More »Creating facsimiles of the Marseille Middleton Holloway Albums
This week we have a follow-up post by Dr. Keelan Overton, a Library Special Collections Visiting Scholar in 2016 who returned to St Andrews in… Read More »The St Andrews Qur’an Part Two: Deconstructing a Frontispiece, Mapping an Insert
Today, the east end of St Andrews is dominated by the ruins of its former Cathedral. Once the largest building in Scotland, St Andrews Cathedral… Read More »Rescued from the Ruins: The Surviving Manuscripts of St Andrews Cathedral
There has been a lot of research interest in the work of D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson in the last few years. 2017 marked the centenary of… Read More »D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson as teacher
As part of the British Home Front week in St Andrews, the University Library’s Special Collections Division is hosting a drop-in session on the morning… Read More »Memories of World War I
This blog has been temporarily removed to allow the letter from Queen Elizabeth I to be set as a palaeography assignment for our students.
At the University of St Andrews Library we are keen that Special Collections materials are used to support teaching through workshops, seminars and show and… Read More »Special Collections Teaching 2017-2018 Candlemas Semester
A new genealogical resource based on 5 early volumes from the St Andrews Burgh Collection (B65) (held at the University of St Andrews Library under… Read More »Following the Family: Creating a Genealogical Index to the St Andrews Burgh Records, c. 1550-1700
On this day, the 14th May, in 1796, the first documented case of cowpox inoculation was carried out by Dr Edward Jenner. This blog looks… Read More »Edward Jenner and the smallpox vaccine
