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The medieval monk who gave his name to Ockham’s Razor TAGS: Eucharist | Funk | Incunabula | medieval | New College Library | Philosophy | rare books | Theology & Ethics New College Library holds this copy of William of Ockham’s  De Sacramento Altaris,  a treatise on the Eucharist, in the Incunabula collection. William of Ockham was born at Ockham, near …Continue reading →

New books at New College Library – April TAGS: Books | Divinity | library catalogue | Theology & Ethics | University of Edinburgh New College Library has a regular display of new books at the far end of the Library Hall, close to the door to the stacks. New in the library is …Continue reading →

Still places available at Searching Research Literature and Managing Bibliographies 27 March TAGS: Bibliographies | Humanities | online | research | students | University of Edinburgh There’s still time to book a place on Searching Research Literature and Managing Bibliographies course run by the Institute for Academic Development for College of Humanities and Social Sciences postgraduate …Continue reading →

New College Library Edinburgh rare books to be added to Early English Books Online #EEBO TAGS: New College Library | online | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century | University of Edinburgh Photographers are occupying my office again today  for digital photography of a number of rare books from New College Library’s collections, to be loaded onto Early English Books Online (EEBO).  …Continue reading →

Divinity Student book recommendations now available TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | students | University of Edinburgh All these books (and more) were recommended by Divinity students and are now available to University of Edinburgh Library users – more details on the library catalogue. 100+ book recommendations …Continue reading →

Historic Papal politics : Platina’s Lives of the Popes TAGS: Catholic | church history | donations | fifteenth century | Funk | Incunabula | medieval | New College Library | Popes | rare books Bartolomeo Platina, (1421-1481) was a writer and member of the College of Abbreviators in Rome, a body of writers in the papal chancery who prepared the Pope’s bulls, briefs and …Continue reading →

Scotland’s last saint : St John Ogilvie TAGS: Catholic | New College Library | Reformation | saints | Scotland | seventeenth-century The 10th of  March is celebrated as the feast day of St John Ogilvie in the Roman Catholic Church. The only post-Reformation saint from Scotland.  John Ogilvie (1578/9–1615) was born …Continue reading →

Treasures of New College Library : The Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library TAGS: cataloguing | Free Church of Scotland | Funk | New College Library | Patristics | rare books | Special Collections The Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library is a collection of handsomely bound volumes, particularly rich in patristic and theological texts. The rare books in the collection include Knox’s Liturgy (1611), the …Continue reading →

Brepols Medieval Bibliographies on trial now TAGS: church history | Divinity | medieval | online | research | University of Edinburgh Brepols Medieval Bibliographies are now available on trial access to University of Edinburgh Users. Access is available on campus and off campus via the VPN. The trial ends on 5 …Continue reading →