52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 2: Mrs Edwards’s cook book
We bought this recipe book at auction recently, and it arrived with no provenance information. However, from the names and places mentioned, I have worked out that it belonged to […]
Category: University Collections
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 1: Special Collections Ghost tour
T’was a dark and stormy night….no, honestly, it really was….when a gallant band of Special Collections and friends set out in full costume, accompanied by an even more gallant, because […]
Introducing this year’s blog theme: 52 weeks of Historical How-To’s.
Over the past couple of years we’ve had themes for weekly blog posts throughout the year, beginning with the very popular 52 weeks of fantastic bindings, and followed by 52 […]
Lighting the Past: The St Andrews Collection
Last week the Lighting the Past team finished cataloguing the non-folio items of the St Andrews Collection. With some 2315 bib records and 3926 item records, this is the largest […]
600 Years of Book Collecting, Issue 3: Language & Literature — Coming Soon!!
The third issue of 600 Years of Book Collecting will be available for sale from the Main Library next Wednesday, the 30th of October. This issue, the last of the […]
600 Years of Book Collecting, Issue 2: The Natural World — Coming Soon!!
The second issue of 600 Years of Book Collecting will be available for sale from the Main Library next Wednesday, the 16th of October. This issue is focused on books […]
Cataloguing Completed: the Hargreaves Collection
The Rare Book team is pleased to announce that the Hargreaves Collection has been fully catalogued on SAULCAT and awaits your reading pleasure. Geoffrey D. Hargreaves studied classics at Pembroke […]
600 Years of Book Collecting, Issue 1: Divinity & Politics — Coming Soon!!
What is 600 Years of Book Collecting? To commemorate the 600th anniversary of the founding of the University of St Andrews, the University Library has developed a six-part publication that […]
Lighting the Past: Next up, the Anderson Collection!
During a grueling (if not long-lived) summer heat wave, the Lighting the Past team has kept nice and cool in Special Collections where we’ve been hard at work cataloguing our […]
400 years of metamorphosis: Theodor de Bry and Natalie Taylor on Jaques le Moyne De Morgues
In November 2011 a post on this blog highlighted Theodor de Bry’s Grand Voyages. This is a hefty and multi-faceted tome, and, as a reprographic technician, I was encouraged to […]