Caring for the New College Library Torah Scroll TAGS: Hebrew | Judaism | Manuscripts | New College Library | Special Collections A guest post by Valentina Flex, New College Library & Archive Assistant. In order to ensure the safe and successful decant of collections at New College Library, myself and my …Continue reading →

New College Library Project Update by the Library & Archive Assistants TAGS: New College Library | preservation | Special Collections | Thomas Chalmers Post by Jamie Sutherland, New College Library Project Assistant New College Library moved to its temporary home in David Hume Tower in January 2020. This new space will allow continued …Continue reading →

Jewish Studies Collections at New College Library : nineteenth and twentieth centuries TAGS: Holocaust | Israel | Jewish | Judaism | middle east | New College Library | nineteenth-century | twentieth-century The British Association for Jewish Studies Conference to Edinburgh at New College today covers a wide range of topics under its theme of ‘Jews on the Move’ including the theme of …Continue reading →

Psalm singing and the Reformation TAGS: Church of Scotland | Psalms | Reformation | Scotland | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century New College Library welcomes delegates to The Cultures of the Reformation: A Colloquium in Honour of Professor Jane Dawson on Thursday 1 June 2017. We have updated our current display …Continue reading →

Psalms in public and private TAGS: embroidery | Psalms | Reformation | Scotland | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century New College Library welcomes the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland this week with a display of early psalm books. During the period 1564-1644, around 70 editions of the …Continue reading →

Reading the Reformation : John Fisher TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century | Theology & Ethics New College Library’s collections provide a rich resource for and about Reformation theology and its readers. One of these readers was John Fisher  [St John Fisher] (c.1469–1535), bishop of Rochester, cardinal, and martyr …Continue reading →

Reading the Reformation : Luther TAGS: Divinity | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century | Theology & Ethics On 14, 15 and 16 February 2017, the Cunningham Lectures at New College will mark the 500th Luther anniversary, with lectures by Professor Kaufmann covering Europe, Reformation and Luther. New College …Continue reading →

Travel writing from the Holy Land : The William Fulton Jackson Collection TAGS: Biblical Studies | Egypt | Israel | Palestine | twentieth-century A post by guest curator Suzi Higton, School of Divinity The books of intrepid travel writers whose adventures span from Jerusalem to Cairo feature throughout the collections at New College Library …Continue reading →

Cut it out! TAGS: Archives | Covenanters | Gaelic | Manuscripts | Presbyterian I have been making my way through the manuscripts collection in an effort to identify material, see what conservation needs there are and generally acquaint myself with the collections. This …Continue reading →

Preserving the Dumfries Presbytery Library for the future TAGS: conservation | Divinity | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | John Howard | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century A guest post from Finlay West, Funk Projects Cataloguer The recently completed cataloguing of the Dumfries Presbytery Library Collection housed at New College Library, finally allows the volumes to be …Continue reading →