The ghosts on the shelves TAGS: ghosts | New College Library | rare books | supernatural It’s difficult to walk around Stack III, the rare books stack of New College Library, without feeling the weight of history. On these shelves Tyndale rubs shoulders with Calvin, and …Continue reading →

From Greek to Gaelic TAGS: Gaelic | greek | Latin | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Scotland Just over 400 items which together form the Gaelic Collections at New College Library have now been catalogued online and their details can now be browsed online using the shelfmark “Gaelic …Continue reading →

Gaelic hymns from the Highlands TAGS: Gaelic | hymnbooks | hymns | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Scotland | Special Collections New College Library’s recently catalogued Gaelic Collections contain several editions of  “Dain spioradail ” by the celebrated hymn writer Peter Grant. This edition at Gaelic Coll. 250  is the fifth …Continue reading →

Bagpipe music of the Isles TAGS: bagpipes | Gaelic | music | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Scotland I’m delighted to announce that just over 400 items which together form the Gaelic Collections at New College Library have now been catalogued online and their details can now be browsed …Continue reading →

Seventeenth century botanical illustrations discovered at New College Library TAGS: Botany | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | New College Library | rare books | science | seventeenth-century Recently catalogued online and now on display in New College Library’s entrance hall is this seventeeth century botanical work, Exoticarum aliarumque minus cognitarium plantarum centuria prima. Written by Jakob Breyne, it …Continue reading →

Israel, the Assyrians and a shoemaker’s gift TAGS: Biblical Studies | Disruption | Divinity | donations | eighteenth-century | history | Israel | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Presbyterian | rare books | Special Collections | U.S.A. | Z Collection At todays’ opening seminar in the Divinity Biblical Studies Research Seminar series, the speaker is Dr Carly Crouch, Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, University of Nottingham, on “Israel and the Assyrians”. On …Continue reading →

Medieval Jewish Biblical Scholarship at New College Library TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Dalman-Christie | Divinity | Funk | Hebrew | Jerusalem | Jewish | Judaism | Latin | medieval | New College Library | Old Testament | rare books | seventeenth-century | Special Collections This item from New College Library’s Special Collections is a biblical commentary on the Old Testament prophets by the Portuguese Jewish scholar Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508).   Abravanel was employed by King …Continue reading →

A Study in Syriac TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | donations | Funk | Hebrew | Latin | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | Special Collections | Syriac | University of Edinburgh Syriac has been taught at New College, Edinburgh, since its earliest days, as part of the family of ancient languages studied here. Today, for University of Edinburgh Students in years …Continue reading →

Science and religion : a natural history TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | natural history | New College Library | rare books | religion | science | Special Collections | University of Edinburgh Today’s Opening Lecture for the 2012-13 academic session at the School of Divinity will be given by Professor Wentzel van Huyssteen of Princeton Theological Seminary, and will launch the new …Continue reading →

Treasures of New College Library : The Dumfries Presbytery Library TAGS: cataloguing | Church of Scotland | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | John Howard | New College Library | rare books | research | Special Collections The Dumfries Presbytery Library is a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books that was first documented in 1710, with the acceptance of a substantial donation of books from Dr John Hutton. It …Continue reading →