Early this morning, 13 June 2012, the Olympic torch will pass through St Andrews on its way down to Edinburgh. The torch is scheduled to… Read More »Five cyanotypes to celebrate the Olympic torch coming to St Andrews!
Our post last December on an unidentified French Book of Hours received a huge response and helped us to narrow down exactly which book it… Read More »Cataloguer’s conundrum: Can anyone tell us what church this is? Is it still extant?
A year’s work, on the shelf When I took up the position of Rare Books Cataloguer in July 2010, the first task that was given… Read More »Full cataloguing of the British portion of the Typographical Collection complete!
Robert Tullis (1775-1831) moved to Cupar in 1797 and founded the company of R. Tullis & Company, initially as a bookshop and bindery. In 1803… Read More »The Tullis Press: 19th century printing in Fife
Original post from 29 June 2011 We were contacted by members of the Scottish media shortly following an early post on this blog on a… Read More »Update: Rare 17th century heraldic playing cards from Edinburgh
Two of the earliest St Andrews bindings: The St. Leonard’s Chained Bible and a 1501 copy of Jacques Lefèvre d’Etaples’ commentary on Aristotle This week’s… Read More »52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 6
This week’s posts are both focused on the historical collections of St. Andrews, look for the new bindings post on Friday! Many of the books… Read More »A Library from libraries
Echoes from the Vault is stretching its social media legs! We can now be found on Facebook and Twitter, through the University Library’s pages. Follow… Read More »Echoes is now on Facebook and Twitter!
**re-posted from the Special Collections Department home page** Special Collections is pleased to announce the resumption of services from 27th June, after our move to… Read More »Re-opening of Special Collections from 27th June 2011
Special Collections have produced a book featuring 50 of the most important and intriguing items from the varied collections that we hold, including rare books, illuminated manuscripts,… Read More »Treasures of St Andrews University Library book now available
Bound-with volumes, or analytical volumes, are often the bane of a cataloguer’s existence and are sometimes the last items to come off of a shelf… Read More »Edinburgensia: A collection of over 60 17th-19th century items in one volume
The anonymous “Cloud of witnesses” (St Andrews item TypBE.D14XX) came up recently while working through the Edinburgh section of the Typographical Collection. This is the… Read More »Rare edition of “A cloud of witnesses” with eerie frontispiece
