Thinking of donating books to New College Library? TAGS: alumni | Books | Divinity | donations | New College Library | students New College Library welcomes donations of recent publications that support the current teaching and research of the School of Divinity. And donations of books which record the intellectual output of the …Continue reading →

Women’s voices at New College Library TAGS: Church of Scotland | missionary | New College Library | Theology & Ethics | World Christianity After my last blog post which focused on the women who gave their books to support the foundation of New College Library, I’ve been thinking about some of the collections we have which …Continue reading →

The women behind New College Library TAGS: Archives | New College Library | nineteenth-century If you visit New College Library today, International Women’s Day, women might seem  hard to find amongst the portraits and busts of Thomas Chalmers and John Knox, and the shelves filled with …Continue reading →

‘Scotland’s last martyr’ : remembering James Renwick TAGS: Covenanters | seventeenth-century February was a suitable month to remember James Renwick  (15 February 1662 – 17 February 1688). Renwick was a graduate of Edinburgh University who accepted a call to the ministry within the independent Presbyterian …Continue reading →

A Christmas Celebration TAGS: Archives | Free Church of Scotland   New College Collections Curator Kirsty Stewart & I were delighted to find this lovely ‘illuminated manuscript’ certificate, which celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of the ordination of Rev. Walter Chalmers Smith, …Continue reading →

Look, there’s a libretto in the library! TAGS: DiscoverEd | Funk | music | New College Library | Pamphlets | rare books It’s not every day that you find a rare edition of Handel’s Messiah in your library but I’m delighted to say that we have one at New College Library! This recently catalogued pamphlet …Continue reading →

Keeping it in the family TAGS: Bible | Free Church of Scotland | Funk | New College Library | rare books At New College Library we often receive enquiries from individuals interested in researching their family bibles, who have identified that we hold the same or similar edition at New College …Continue reading →

The joy of cataloguing TAGS: Funk | Hymnology | New College Library | rare books One of our Funk Project cataloguers showed me this item The Fullness of Joy by Frances Ridley Havergal (Hymn 3926) this morning. After a humdrum week of working through variant editions …Continue reading →

Divinity Approaches to Research – Resources for Jewish Studies TAGS: Divinity | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library Jewish sacred texts, biblical scholarship and devotional works in Hebrew can be discovered throughout New College Library’s Special Collections.

Divinity Approaches to Research – Top tips for finding Bibles TAGS: Bible | Divinity | New College Library | postgraduate | students   The University of Edinburgh Library holds extensive and rich collections of Bibles. At New College Library, you will find of early Bibles from the Scottish Reformation, Bibles in languages from all over …Continue reading →