In January this year a significant donation of books joined our collections here in St Andrews: the Neil Rhodes Collection, a collection of English renaissance… Read More »New Acquisition: The Neil Rhodes Collection
In this blog, masters student Ellen Robertson takes a look at a copy of the ‘The whole booke of Psalmes’ in University Collections, which formed… Read More »Sternhold and Whittingham’s Metrical Psalms
Students on Dr Amy Blakeway’s Mary Queen of Scots, France, England and Ireland module (MO4807) this year have been encountering Mary Queen of Scots through… Read More »Encountering Mary Queen of Scots
This year’s annual Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) conference brought scholars from all over the world to St Andrews. Over the course of the June… Read More »Print History Conference Enlightened by Rare Book Exhibition
Today marks the 330th anniversary of the publication of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (often referred to simply as the Principia). First published… Read More »Celebrating 330 years of Isaac Newton’s Principia
Mark Neville (b. 1966) is a photographer known for his multi-layered social documentary projects. I first came across Neville’s work when visiting the Scottish Parliament… Read More »New Acquisitions Highlight: Mark Neville’s Photobooks
52 weeks of Reading the Collections has come to an end – thanks to everyone who contributed, read, and shared our posts over the past… Read More »52 Weeks of Reading the Collections: Visual Index and Reflections
Life can be dangerous for a book. Someone might thoughtlessly pull it off a shelf by the top of its spine, bash its corners, ignore… Read More »Minor Book Repair Workshop with Caroline Bendix
Cataloguing the backlog of early and rare printed books held in the Special Collections Division of the University Library can be a source of surprises.… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 33: It’s all Greek to me
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
Special Collections is pleased to announce that the cataloguing of two of its rare book collections is complete. Both the Simson Collection and the Wedderburn… Read More »Wedderburn and Simson Collections now on SAULCAT
Antony van Leeuwenhoek is widely recognised as the person who discovered the microbial world and I have always been intrigued by this somewhat unusual and… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 26: Discovery of the Microbial World
