On 23 April 1712, a young Mark Catesby landed on the shores of Virginia seeking out new animals and plants that were not native to England and there he remained for seven years. Catesby sent back a few specimens and…
Last year I was working on this item from our Typograhpical Collection and stumbled upon the present conundrum. Featured above is the title page to a supposed 1786 Edinburgh printing of James Hutton’s “Theory of the…
In January 2012, we posted a plea for help in identifying a motif found in one of our medieval manuscripts: msBR65.A9S2 – a Pseudo-Augustinian Sermones ad fratres eremo. This manuscript had been catalogued, and thought…
This albumen print is from an album (ms29951/1) of Italian photos collected by Professor James Donaldson (1813-1915), a classicist and theologian who served as Principal of the United College of St Andrews University…
***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),…
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…