***For a full update on this conundrum, see this post from 12 March 2012.*** This is the first folio of a beautiful, mid 14th century manuscript of the Pseudo-Augustinian ‘Sermones ad Fratres in Eremo’ (msBR65.A9S2),…
Whilst recataloguing our copy of a 1473 Augsburg printing of a collection of works in German (including a translation of Pope Gregory I‘s Dialogorum libri quattuor, a German translation of Visio Tnugdali, and four…
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 was. Based on its success, we are now happy to present the first regular post…
This week’s binding post caught my eye as I was reshelving some items. As you can see in the picture above, this book stands out a bit: it’s quite a common to find leaves of manuscripts used as fly-leaves and binding…
The reading room re-opened for the New Year this morning, and is already busy with researchers. If you’d like to book a space to consult material, please get in touch!
As you may have noticed, we’ve changed the layout and style of our blog. We had a great response to the launch of this blog in 2011, and we decided that the opening of the new year was the best time to re-brand Echoes…
Edinburgh auctioneers Lyon & Turnbull will be hosting their latest Rare book, Maps and Manuscripts sale on 11 January 2012. This is a great chance for anyone in the area interested in the special collections world to…
What better way to bring in the New Year than dedicating our last binding post of 2011 to those who take our old stuff and make it new(ish) again: conservators! Like many historic collections, one can spend almost as…
This week’s fantastic binding is hard to miss when your sifting through the stacks of 16th century Italian books. Most of our books in the Italian portion of the Typographical Collection are either contemporarily bound…
As I was working through one of Archbishop William Scheves’ collected volumes of incunabula, I came across one of his wonderful manicula (or fist, or index finger, or pointing hand). This volume is a collection of 15th…