An Uncommon Smile
In this post Eddie Martin from our Photo team describes an unusual early portrait photograph in our collections which has caught his eye recently. Born in 1819, Cornelius Jabez Hughes followed his father into the…
In this post Eddie Martin from our Photo team describes an unusual early portrait photograph in our collections which has caught his eye recently. Born in 1819, Cornelius Jabez Hughes followed his father into the…
Thanks to a most generous grant from the Friends of the National Libraries’ B. H. Breslauer Fund, the Library has recently been able to acquire a beautiful copy of one of the most famous nineteenth-century…
Joining the Library’s Special Collections Division last September, Weitian Liu is the Enlight Foundation scholar. Weitian is currently pursuing an MPhil in History of Photography and working with the photo team in…
This week we present a manuscript of the sonnet ‘Fancy in Nubibus. Or The Poet in the Clouds’ by the poet, critic and philosopher Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834). The document is one of the highlights of the…
In 2017 the University of St Andrews Library was privileged to be entrusted with two albums containing letters and autographs from some of the most illustrious names in history, art and literature. As an important new…
This blog has been temporarily removed to allow the letter from Queen Elizabeth I to be set as a palaeography assignment for our students.
A wife’s head is immaterial, compared with her heart” Robert Burns This year we are able to present an exciting addition to the Burnsiana in our collections – a letter from Robert Burns to a friend and mentor, dated…
A copy of The Whole Booke of Psalmes in Prose and Meeter, printed in Edinburgh by Andro Hart in 1617 was presented to Special Collections by Roger and Frances Stewart in May 2017; to mark both the 400th anniversary of…
A special event to mark the gift of the Marseille Middleton Holloway Collection was held on 24th October 2017. We were thrilled to be able to welcome 13 of Holloway’s descendants to the University Library’s Napier…
In this week’s blog Mary McClure, a final year Art History and Medieval History student, discusses the Book of Hours that formed the basis of her Art History dissertation, entitled ‘MS38988: a Life History’. This late…