New Ways Of Seeing TAGS: Ms 195 A large part of what we do in the Digital Imaging Unit is fulfilling digitisation requests from all over the world from researchers and academics who want access to our …Continue reading →

French Bible Historial Now Available in Book Reader When we started at the DIU at the beginning 2004, a project to digitise a beautiful French Bible known to us as Ms 19 was already half completed, our first …Continue reading →

Volunteering in the DIU I have been volunteering with the Digital Imaging Unit for about a year, during which time I have been researching and adding metadata to their digital collection, as well as …Continue reading →

Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography Conference TAGS: Digital Imaging | DIU The Digital Imaging Unit attended the “Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography” conference for the first time in November at the end of last year. The conference was hosted …Continue reading →

Happy New Year! Have you been doing too much of this recently? And started the year with a splitting headache… Or maybe you got stranded by the winter storms…. And had to be …Continue reading →

Photographing The Apocalypse Circa 1483 TAGS: Albrecht Durer | Anton Koberger | Library Recently the Digital Imaging Unit were asked to photograph all 8 illustrations from the book of the Apocalypse in Anton Koberger’s German Bible of 1483.  Shelf-mark Inc.45.2.  I have selected …Continue reading →

CENSORED! Last week I was sent a wonderful book, Deletrix – a collaboration between the artist Joan Fontcuberta, Catalan PEN and Arts Santa Mònica and it explores censorship and violence done …Continue reading →

Library and University 2014 calendar TAGS: Calendar The new Library and University 2014 calendar is now on sale. This year’s theme is Bygone Edinburgh, with all images coming from the mid-19th to early 20th centuries. Highlights include …Continue reading →

Marking the Millennium? TAGS: Edinburgh This week’s images all come from a lovely photograph album commissioned by the University in 1900 (Shelfmark EUA CA1/2). We don’t have much information about this volume but we think …Continue reading →

Gems from the ECA Rare Books Collection The CRC Assistant Rare Books Librarian has been busy cataloguing books from the Edinburgh College of Art Collection again, and has sent a few our way to photograph for upcoming …Continue reading →