In this blog PhD candidate Phoebe Macindoe discusses leaf books and a new acquisition for the Library. All the volumes in the library are made… Read More »Unbe-leaf-able! A Thynne-ly disguised secret appears in a library book
Cataloguing is a relatively straightforward task- a book is examined, described, and any provenance is indicated and traced where possible. Usually, there are two trains… Read More »Mackintosh and Glengarry – a Highland provenance adventure
Dr Sandra Toffolo, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the School of History, takes a look at John Lesley’s De illustrium foeminarum in republica administranda, ac ferendis… Read More »A treatise on famous female rulers
Postdoctoral Research Assistant (and former Lighting the Past Cataloguer), Drew Thomas, highlights the St Andrews University Library’s 1529 edition of Luther’s preface to the Psalter,… Read More »A New Edition by Martin Luther
The Lighting the Past team share their highlights from the ‘M’ section of the Copyright Deposit Collection. You can see the previous posts in the… Read More »Copyright ABCs – ‘The Scots Musical Museum’
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Special Collections Division in possession of good books, must have a backlog of unaccessioned material”. Okay, so… Read More »Unaccessioned material: Miss D’Arcy Thompson and works by Charles Bennett
Recently, the Lighting the Past Team came across this inscription in a Greek language textbook: The discovery of this annotation provides a perfect opportunity to… Read More »A Prize Discovery: The Story of the Tullis Brothers
Here, our Lighting the Past team complete the story of their recent adventures uncovering the story of one of our new finds. Provenance of a… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 5, part II: A beginners’ guide to uncovering rare book treasures: the journey of a 500 year old book
Here two of our Lighting the Past project cataloguers retrace their exciting journey of discovery as they uncover the story of one of our new… Read More »Where We Find New Old Books, Chapter 5, part I: A beginners’ guide to uncovering rare book treasures: a 500-year-long tale between Parisian pages
Once again external funding for a cataloguing project (the Henderson Bequest) has thrown into the light another hidden gem in the Special Collections of the… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 4: William Creech and a new first edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations
This is what buried treasure looks like in a library: This book, which is a collection of two perfectly respectable but not very rare tracts… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 3: buried treasure amongst the stacks
Around a month ago Liza DeBlock (one of our MLitt in Book History students) pulled from the shelf this very interesting book during her regularly… Read More »Where we find new old books, chapter 2: a new 15th century fragment joins a fragmentary history
