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
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
Last weekend marked the close of another cataloguing project: bringing all of the records for our incunabula collection (pre-1501 printed works) up to a full… Read More »Full cataloguing of the St Andrews Incunabula Collection complete!
This week’s binding feature is one of four incunabula held in the George Hay Forbes Collection. This week, as I was wrapping up cataloguing of… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 40: a stunning 16th century pigskin and medieval manuscript half binding
This week’s binding feature is indeed a bit of a Frankenstein. I came across this item while working through the large folio incunabula shelves and… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 36: a 16th century Frankenstein-esque binding
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 week’s binding post is a bit of a mystery and is a perfect candidate for some further research. Recently recatalogued incunabula TypFP.A95GG is the… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 34: possibly the earliest dated blind panel-stamp extant
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
Whilst recataloguing our copy of a 1473 Augsburg printing of a collection of works in German (including a translation of Pope Gregory I‘s Dialogorum libri… Read More »500 year old inky fingerprints uncovered in German incunabule
