Rare Books – Expect the Unexpected: 2 TAGS: Edinburgh College of Art | Illustration | Jesuits | Notgeld | political cartoons | Robert Parsons | Robert Persons | Satire | Spanish Armada | Trump Satire This is the second in our series of posts based on the current exhibition in the Library Gallery, and the project by Edinburgh College of Art Illustration students, based …Continue reading →

Travelling Images: Venetian Illustrated Books 2 This week our Venetian illustrations turn theatrical, with an illustrated copy of the plays of Plautus, and we welcome as guest blogger, the exhibition curator, Laura Moretti, of the University …Continue reading →

Early Library Records TAGS: catalogues | enlightenment | old library | palaeography | shelf lists Our intern, Nathalie, is reaching the end of the project, working on the earliest of the library records.  She has achieved a great deal in the weeks she has been …Continue reading →

Oh Christmas Tree! TAGS: archive | David Laing | Manuscripts | rare books | Special Collections Christmas has well and truly arrived at the Main Library with the installation of a 12 foot Christmas tree. This year we decided to use images from the CRC collections …Continue reading →

Musical Marginalia in Textus Logices TAGS: marginalia | music | rare books | Special Collections  We are delighted to be sharing a guest blog post by Elizabeth Cary Ford and Vivien Estelle Williams of Glasgow University who have recently been studying the marginalia of item De.8.83 …Continue reading →