Divinity Approaches to Research – Library Resources for Islam TAGS: Divinity | islam | New College Library | postgraduate | students View of pages from the Qur’an of Tipu Sultan. Shows text in the centre, surrounded by gold and blue illumination. Tipu Sultan was the Muslim ruler of Southern India’s Mysore …Continue reading →

Welcome to arriving students at New College Library! TAGS: New College Library | students A big welcome to all our new students arriving today. New College Library holds over 250,000 volumes, including rich and unique Special Collections, making it one of the leading theological libraries in …Continue reading →

New Testaments from history TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | New College Library | New Testament | sixteenth-century At the beginning of next month, the University of Edinburgh welcomes the Annual Meeting of the British New Testament Society, which will take place on 3- 5 Sept 2015. Currently on display in …Continue reading →

New Bloomsbury eBook Collections available for Divinity TAGS: Biblical Studies | Books | Divinity | online | Religious Studies | Theology & Ethics New Bloomsbury eBook Collections are now available for Divinity. Bloomsbury eBook Collections deliver instant access to Bloomsbury’s research publications with unlimited user access and the facility to download and print …Continue reading →

New Books at New College Library – August (recommended by students) TAGS: Books | Divinity | students | Theology & Ethics Student recommendations are in at New College Library! The recently purchased Oxford Handbook of the Psalms, edited by William Brown, is available as an ebook via  DiscoverEd.   Other student recommendations in the library include is Speaking …Continue reading →

Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library now catalogued online TAGS: Church of Scotland | Free Church of Scotland | New College Library I’m pleased to report that the Longforgan Free Church Ministers Library has now been catalogued online. A big thank you to the two project cataloguers who have tackled this collection, Finlay …Continue reading →

Ministry and medicine TAGS: Divinity | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | Incunabula | New College Library | seventeenth-century Today we’re welcoming a group from the EAHIL + ICAHIS + ICLC 2015 Workshop to New College Library. The Workshop is a collaboration between the European Association for Health Information …Continue reading →

Christ or Confucius, Which? TAGS: China | Divinity | New College Library | World Christianity Christ or Confucius, Which? is just one of the book titles now on display in New College Library, in honour of the conference being held on James Legge and Scottish …Continue reading →

Rare Mass for the Dead from the MH Collection TAGS: Catholic | Funk | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century A guest post from Paul Nicholas, Funk Projects Cataloguer We were delighted this week to discover a rare Mass for the Dead in the MH Collection at New College Library. …Continue reading →

New digital resources for Puritan thought TAGS: Divinity | history | online | seventeenth-century I’m pleased to report that we now have access to digital collections from Oxford Scholarly Editions, including the seventeenth-century prose collection. This contains several titles of interest to researchers in Puritan …Continue reading →