This final rare book entry for our Inspiring Illustrations thread has inspired generations of artists, merchants, craftsmen and businessmen. We have chosen the 11 volumes of plates which accompany Denis […]
We have always referred to this manuscript (St Andrews ms32(o)) as the ‘book of wonders’ and indeed wondered what it was all about as it is lavishly and confusingly illustrated, packed […]
Get the most out of some of the Library's Oxford University Press database subscriptions by joining an online training session on Friday 5 July at 11:00: Oxford Bibliographies - we have Classics and Philosophy, with…
BFI InView: British history through the lens offers over 2,000 non-fiction film and television titles from the 20th to the early 21st Century, from the British Film Institute. It offers the following film…
The World Scholar: Latin American and Caribbean Digital Archive is a recent permanent-access database purchase, made by the Library.It is an important archive of digitised primary source documents which focus on the…
The Library is very pleased to announce the permanent-access purchase of Nineteenth Century Collections Online (NCCO),…
SpringerProtocols, the world's largest databases of peer-reviewed health and life sciences protocols, has been made freely available to UK Higher Education, by JISC Collections.We have access to the Protocols…
SEEKER allows you to do a single search across most of the Library's e-resources.It's also easy to limit your search results in various ways.For example, if you want look for a certain type of material eg e-books,…
JISC Historic Books and JISC Journal Archives will be subject to scheduled maintenance on Tuesday 2 July 2013, between 7.00 - 9.00 am.This essential maintenance is required to look at authentication for the…
Charles Estienne’s De dissectione partium corporis humani libri tres (1545) was the third fully illustrated anatomical work ever to be published. Estienne came from a distinguished printing family: his father, […]