Special Collections gets social with its new Facebook page!
The Special Collections Department of the University of St Andrews Library went live with its new Facebook page last night here:…
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Highlight: The legacy of the William Guild bequest
Following on from our previous Highlight posts, Christine Gascoigne details the history of a very important 17th century Scottish book collector, William Guild. If you would like to write a Highlights post for us, get…
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 24
Thorlak’s Bible, the second edition of the Bible in Icelandic, bound in contemporary leather with beautiful clasps and endpapers I stumbled across this fascinating book while I was photographing the library’s copy of…
Happy Thanksgiving, or, When worlds collide …
Theodor de Bry’s wonderfully illustrated Grand Voyages Being an American living abroad, one of the holidays from home that I miss the most is Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is a holiday that isn’t tethered to any religious…
Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana – 25 November 2011
Cantos 28-31 of Inferno to be read and discussed The Lectura Dantis Andreapolitana is organised by Robert Wilson and Claudia Rossignoli of the Italian Department of the University’s School of Modern Languages. On…
Rare Books Librarian to give open lecture on the King James Bible (23 November 2011, 5:15 pm)
Learn about the history of the Bible in English and see the University’s first edition of the King James Bible To mark the 400th anniversary of the first publication of the King James Bible, Elizabeth Henderson, Rare…
Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) to Launch on Tuesday, 22 November 2011
A new database promising to provide access to all books published before 1601, in all languages, will be launched on 22 November 2011. The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) will contain a total of some 350,000…
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 23
Large 17th centry Saints’ Lives bound in blind rolled pigskin with a Monastic inscription This week’s binding gem comes from one of the greatest untapped collections in the Department of Special Collections: the r17…
Full cataloguing of the British portion of the Typographical Collection complete!
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 to me was to catalogue the British portion of the Typographical Collection in full DCRM(B)…
52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings: Week 22
A 16th century German book bound in 19th century British Paisley cloth This one is a bit of a mystery. As I was re-shelving some books last week, the pattern of the fabric used to cover this book caught my eye. Image…