In this week’s blog, postgraduate student Thomas Murrie shares with us some of the findings from his dissertation, the focus of which was on one… Read More »Alchemical Manuscript: The ‘Alchimiae Tractatus’, 14th century
George Sinclair was one of the earliest British writers on hydrostatics and published The hydrostaticks in 1672. At the time, Sinclair’s work was criticised by… Read More »Scottish Natural Philosopher – George Sinclair [?1630]-1696
Practice makes perfect: this is true of many things, but particularly so when attempting to read old handwriting. Palaeography skills develop with greater exposure and… Read More »Practice makes perfect! New tools for reading old handwriting
As we move into May, the regular pattern of visiting classes using Special Collections materials comes to an end. We have enjoyed bringing original material… Read More »Palaeography Class Trip 2016/17
Earlier this year we had the pleasure of welcoming the Opening up Scotland’s Archives trainees to their second cohort visit of the year, here at… Read More »Opening Up Scotland’s Archives: Trainee Visit
It’s with great pleasure that we are able to pass on good news about the ‘Opening Up Scotland’s Archives’ scheme, in which Special Collections is… Read More »Skills for the Future Archival traineeships recognised in national awards
Well, butcher, baker and blacksmith at least! Three local craftsmen, masters of their trades, will be taking part in a free event on Saturday 7th… Read More »The Butcher, the Baker, the Candlestick-maker …
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!
For this week’s historical how-to, we’re taking a look at David Browne’s The new invention, intituled, calligraphia: or, The arte of faire writing. Printed right… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 21: Calligraphy
