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 the University Library and Echoes on Twitter @StAndrewsUniLib and…
Bib BS2085.C27– An early 17th century dos-à-dos embroidered New Testament and Psalter This week’s fantastic binding comes from the Bible collection, and has been in our collection for almost 50 years. Bib BS2085.C27 is…
Finding marginalia and other inscriptions in our early collections is so common that we often take it for granted. However, sometimes something really spectacular pops up that demands our attention. Such was the case…
**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 temporary accommodation on the North Haugh. We…
Having been inspired by a recent conference in Oxford (9 June 2011) entitled “The place of bindings in book history and bibliography: resources and research” (sponsored by the Bodleian Libraries and Ligatus), we have…
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, photographs and maps. Each item…
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 for work. Stories have been circulated about bound-with volumes of…
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 first edition of this work on Scottish martyrs,…
The Department of Special Collections has been closed since February 2011 to move the collections to a new facility so that refurbishment work can be completed on the Main Library. This facility is located in the…
Hello from St Andrews! This is our first post on our new blog, Echoes from the Vault, and we are very excited to see where it will take us. We are hoping to use this blog as a platform to share some of the unique items…