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
This occasional series will highlight the types of unrecorded early printed books that are regularly uncovered in the process of cataloguing. This first article was… Read More »Where We Find New Old Books, chapter 1: broadsides, almanacs and the ephemeral
The moment you login to Facebook you are faced with an up-to-the-second archive of vacation photographs, pet videos, political screes, and daily frustrations of your… Read More »Special Collections Visiting Scholars – Friending Cicero
This summer, St Andrews began contributing information about its earliest printed books to CERL’s Material Evidence in Incunabula project. This project, initiated and directed by… Read More »MEI Internship Project Begins: a 16th century German binding mystery solved!
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the… Read More »TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY PODCAST: Professor Christopher Given-Wilson on Rolevinck’s Fasciculus Temporum
In the summer of 2013, the University Library set out to capture the reactions of academic and library staff when encountering their favourite items from the… Read More »TREASURES OF THE LIBRARY PODCAST: Dr Margaret Connolly describes the Roll of Kings
For the final inspiring illustration of this 52-week series, it could be argued that we have saved the best for the last. This is a… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 52: the St Andrews Psalter
I didn’t intend to write about the gradual at all for this post, I just happened to be looking at it one day when it… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 43: Faces, fauna, flora and St Francis: funny things lurking in a medieval music manuscript
We couldn’t resist celebrating St Andrews day with some ‘inspiring illustrations’ of our eponym himself. The cult of St Andrew was actively pursued in Scotland… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 23: Images of St Andrew
As we begin to round out our last 10 binding posts, it’s time to start getting out the treasures! This week’s binding feature is one… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 42: 15th century Qur’an bound in contemporary gold-stamped goatskin
In January 2012, we posted a plea for help in identifying a motif found in one of our medieval manuscripts: msBR65.A9S2 – a Pseudo-Augustinian Sermones… Read More »A conundrum solved, collectively: a 15th century Italian manuscript identified
