Continuing the series of blog posts on the recent RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) workshop, Phoebe MacIndoe looks at the fragments of ‘The Romances of Kyng Alisander’. The advantages to using digitised…
The Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) technique opens up new horizons for the close study of the materiality of palpable objects like manuscripts. It reveals things we cannot easily observe with our very eyes,…
At a workshop back in April I applied RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) to the processing of images of a twelfth-century parchment leaf and found some details that were difficult to observe with the naked eye.…
As light glimmers over the fifteenth-century illuminated initial, the calm and focused expression on the face of our university’s eponym St Andrew remains unchanged. He seems to look directly at the shadow of a…
Queen Elizabeth II is the first British Monarch to celebrate 70 years of service. Her reign is already longer than the reigns of her four predecessors put together. To mark the Platinum Jubilee weekend, we thought we…
On the weekend of 6-8 May the University hosted a Folger Symposium on ‘Reading Scotland before 1707’. This was the culmination of four years of preparation by Professor Margaret Connolly and Professor Rhiannon Purdie,…
This is the second part of a blog series about Special Collections’ remote enquiry service, and the types of questions we answer using collections material. Enquiries about historical alumni are one of the most popular…
With the completion of a 26-month project, the Franki Raffles Photography Collection has now been fully catalogued. The online catalogue of the photographs in this collection is now available on the Special Collections…
Heather Curtis, a first-year PhD student at the University of St Andrews, has won the Scottish Records Association’s Tunnock Prize – an award for an essay utilising archival research to expand our knowledge of Scottish…
In the next part of our series highlighting the Marseille Middleton Holloway autograph albums, gifted to the University Library a few years ago, we take a look at the letter from Horace Walpole to John Pinkerton, 1794.…