Polish Treasures at The Printed Book in Central Europe Conference
The St Andrews Book Project in the School of History, along with the Center for Austrian Studies at the University of Minnesota, hosted its annual conference this year from 29 […]
Tag: Rare Book Collection
Unaccessioned material: Miss D’Arcy Thompson and works by Charles Bennett
“It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a Special Collections Division in possession of good books, must have a backlog of unaccessioned material”. Okay, so this perhaps doesn’t quite roll […]
Gold Leaf, Chant Music and Bibles for the Blind: More treasures from the Discovering Lost Manuscripts Project
Four weeks on and we have searched through thousands of books (on one particularly caffeinated day we managed to look through 561 books) and found over 500 fragments in total. […]
Illustrating Austen at 200
To mark the 200th anniversary of the death of Jane Austen on 18 July 1817, we have a blog from a member of teaching staff in English who frequently brings […]
Where can you find a 400 year old laundry list, a rhyming love note and a fragment from the King James Bible?
What sounds like the beginning of a bad joke in fact describes just some of our favourite finds from the first few days working on the Discovering Lost Manuscripts Project […]
Celebrating 330 years of Isaac Newton’s Principia
Today marks the 330th anniversary of the publication of Sir Isaac Newton’s Philosophiæ Naturalis Principia Mathematica (often referred to simply as the Principia). First published on July 5th 1687, the […]
David Mitchell Conference 2017 visits Special Collections
On Saturday 3rd June, fifty attendees came together from across the globe to take part in the international David Mitchell Conference 2017 at the University of St Andrews. This one-day […]
Copyright ABCs – “The Clock Struck Four!!!”: Ashford v Thornton, Trial by Combat, and Nineteenth-Century Melodrama
We return to the Copyright Deposit ABC’s, as the cataloguing of this massive collection continues apace. For this instalment we are skipping past G (Geography, Anthropology, and Recreation) and H […]
Prelude to Chemistry: Images from the Alchemy Collection
In order to write four influential books on the history of chemistry, St Andrews’ Professor John Read (1884-1963) assembled a remarkable collection of primary sources. Read, a brilliant organic chemist […]
‘To all lovers and investigators of nature’: Maria Sibylla Merian, 1647-1717
2017 marks the 300th anniversary of the death of the German artist and entomologist Maria Sibylla Merian, one of the most celebrated natural scientists of her time. From an early […]