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
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
One can always expect some surprises when working through an incunabula collection, however this little find came of something of a surprise. Yesterday I pulled… Read More »15th century Italian miniature uncovered
This very pretty book was the last book off my shelf today for cataloguing. Not a bad way to end a day, eh? This is… Read More »Not a bad way to end a day
This week’s binding gem is hard to miss and it is in the queue to be recatalogued fully in the next few weeks, but I… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 27: The biggest incunabula on our shelves
John Duns Scotus’s Quaestiones in quatuor libros Sententiarum, printed by and bound for Anton Koberger Although small, St Andrews’ incunabula collection has a wealth of… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 15
