The Most Ancient and Famous History of the Renowned Prince Arthur King of Britaine was the last seventeenth-century edition of Thomas Malory’s great medieval prose romance, the Morte Darthur. After it, no new edition…
Earlier this year the rare books team acquired a significant, and rather pretty, addition to its developing Bible Collection. This Bible, a 1589 folio production of Luther’s edition, was acquired with generous…
This past Monday morning was a sad morning. It was the last Monday morning in a series of Monday mornings that I’ve been spending inside the headspace of Martin Parr. Starting the week by spending some quality time…
A very recent generous gift from Bruce and Suzie Kovner to the Special Collections Division of the University Library is on display in the King James Library this weekend. The Pennyroyal Caxton Bible was designed and…
Francis Pringle’s copy of Poetae minores Graeci (1635) and Robert Balfour’s copy of Juvenal’s Satires (1552) The University Library Department of Special Collections has recently acquired two books from the working…
Regular users of Special Collections will know that over the last 5 years or so we have been promising that our new Archive Catalogue was in preparation and would be online ‘soon’. That ‘soon’ wasn’t quite as soon as…
If you’ve been keeping your eye on the catalogue, you might have noticed that the new Photographic Books Collection is starting to grow. Most of this is due to the efforts of our summer intern, Krista Keller, who has…
This past June the Rare Books Collection acquired a complete set of the Fine Press Book Association’s (FPBA) bi-annual journal Parenthesis. The FPBA has been around since the mid-1990s, and is made up of printers,…
The summer is a busy time of year for new acquisitions here at St Andrews. As our fiscal year winds down and extra money is found and needed to be spent, some items on our wish-lists can be ticked off. We’ll be…