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Five distinguished scholars visiting St Andrews to use Special Collections in Summer 2015

To celebrate the opening of our new Research Library in 2014, the University of St Andrews instituted a new scheme of visiting scholarships. These scholarships are intended to underwrite the costs of a period of work…

Date: 29 April 2015
Category: Manuscript Collection Muniments Collection Rare Book Collection Visiting Scholars

52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 26: A 15th century edition of Josephus bound in near contemporary reverse sheep with a cover title inside a horn window

Sometimes you can tell a book by its cover. This book caught my eye as I was pulling some items from the incunabula section because of the strange look of its covering material. It is the 1486 Venetian printing of…

Date: 7 December 2011
Category: Bindings

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Five distinguished scholars visiting St Andrews to use Special Collections in Summer 2015

52 Weeks of Fantastic Bindings, Week 26: A 15th century edition of Josephus bound in near contemporary reverse sheep with a cover title inside a horn window

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