Early printed works of St Anselm on display at New College Library TAGS: church history | Funk | Incunabula | Latin | medieval | New College Library | rare books | saints | Theology & Ethics New on display in the Funk Reading Room is the Works of St Anselm,  Opuscula beati Anselmi archiepiscopi Ca[n]tuarie[n]sis ordinis Sancti Benedicti, printed in 1497. April 21 is the Feast …Continue reading →

New Divinity digital resources available TAGS: Divinity | online | research | University of Edinburgh New Divinity digital resources are now becoming available.  New Brill resources already added to the A-Z list of databases are Context of Scripture Online, Coptic Gnostic Library, Encyclopedia of Hinduism, …Continue reading →

News: Index of Christian Art Launches new Byzantine resource Freely available addition to the Index of Christian Art, which we subscribe to …

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 →