Winter vacation is coming at New College Library TAGS: Books | Christmas | New College Library | University of Edinburgh New College Library will close on Friday 21 December and reopen again on Thursday 3 January. More details on opening hours for all University of Edinburgh Library sites over the …Continue reading →

The wood-walls of Scotland : a Christmas Carol TAGS: Christmas | Church of Scotland | Disruption | Free Church of Scotland | Hymn | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Pamphlets | Scotland | Special Collections New College Christmas Carol Service is taking place today at 5pm in the Martin Hall, led by members of the New College community and with singing from the New College Choir. Here’s a …Continue reading →

Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology Online Archive TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | ejournals | journals | New College Library | online | theology | University of Edinburgh The Scottish Evangelical Theological Society have agreed to allow biblicalstudies.org.uk to host the on-line archive of the Scottish Bulletin of Evangelical Theology (SBET). All issues of the journal, which began …Continue reading →

To fast or feast? Celebrating Christmas in the eighteenth century TAGS: Christianity | Christmas | church history | Church of England | Edinburgh | eighteenth-century | Funk | New College Library | rare books | Theology & Ethics | theology in history | Z Collection Many folk will be going to Christmas lunches and parties this week – including New College Library staff. Outside our office window the Edinburgh Christmas fair is in full (and noisy) swing, celebrating the …Continue reading →

Festival Prayers for Hanukkah TAGS: Dalman-Christie | eighteenth-century | Funk | Hebrew | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library | online | rare books   The Mahzor Ashkenazim  is an example of a mahzor, or festival prayer book, for Ashkenazi usage, published in Venice in the early eighteenth century. Its large size makes it …Continue reading →

New on display – The Nativity in twentieth century art TAGS: art | Bible | Books | Christianity | Christmas | Funk | New College Library | twentieth-century New on display in New College Library’s Funk Special Collections Reading Room, is The Bible in 20th Century art.  It  is opened to show a painting of The Nativity by …Continue reading →

Tips for getting copyright right TAGS: copyright | online | photocopying | research | University of Edinburgh I’ve had some questions about copyright recently so thought I’d share a few tips … 1. All reproduction from published material is subject to copyright law. The UK Copyright Service …Continue reading →

New books at New College Library – December TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | religion | science | University of Edinburgh New on the shelves this month is The lost world of Genesis One : ancient cosmology and the origins debate by John H. Walton. This title was purchased to support …Continue reading →

(SLIDES) Sir John Sinclair, the County Agricultural Surveys and the Collections and Dissemination of Knowledge (1793-1817) Presented by Heather Holmes at the 17 November 2011 meeting of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. Sir John Sinclair, the county surveys and the collection and dissemination of knowledge from EDINA, …Continue reading →

The saint, the saltire and a Scottish legend TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Funk | New College Library | Psalms | saints | Scotland | seventeenth-century | University of Edinburgh Today, November 30, is Saint Andrew’s day,  also celebrated as Scotland’s national day. The Oxford Dictionary of Saints (available online to University of Edinburgh users)  notes that the cult of St …Continue reading →