Treasures of New College Library – Andrew Melville’s Bible TAGS: Bible | Divinity | New College Library | Presbyterian | Reformation | sixteenth-century One of the pleasures of being a librarian is the serendipity of discovering something special on the shelves whilst engaged in looking for something completely different. Whilst looking at materials about the Congregational …Continue reading →

Unique World Christianity Collections coming home to New College, Edinburgh TAGS: Africa | Archives | China | Divinity | India | missions | New College Library | Syria | World Christianity Now we’re in the in the final stages of the Centre for the Studies of World Christianity Library (CSWC) Project, we’re receiving daily deliveries of books to New College Library from the Library …Continue reading →

Congratulations to our Divinity Graduates and Dr Rowan Williams TAGS: Church of England | Divinity | New College Library | students New College Library staff would like to congratulate all the Divinity students who will be graduating today, Friday 4 July, and wish them well for the future. Celebrating with them …Continue reading →

Cataloguing Christ’s Second Coming TAGS: Divinity | Funk | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Special Collections We’re delighted that the cataloguing of nearly 500 items held in the Shaw Collection on the Catholic Apostolic Church at New College Library, is now complete. While further research is …Continue reading →

The New College Library Strong Room revisited TAGS: Divinity | museum | New College Library | preservation A guest post from our Museums Studies student volunteers, Charlotte Johnson and Liz Louis. Back in December we wrote a blog post on the beginning of our journey working with …Continue reading →

Preserving the Dumfries Presbytery Library for the future TAGS: conservation | Divinity | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | John Howard | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century A guest post from Finlay West, Funk Projects Cataloguer The recently completed cataloguing of the Dumfries Presbytery Library Collection housed at New College Library, finally allows the volumes to be …Continue reading →

Imagining Noah’s Ark : Special Collections on display at New College Library TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | New College Library | science Noah’s Ark has been in the news lately with the recent block buster film Noah. Currently on display in the entrance to New College Library is a nineteenth-century imagining of …Continue reading →

Finding love in the Library – new books at New College Library in May TAGS: Books | Divinity | New College Library | Theology & Ethics Love is in the air this month in the new books coming into New College Library. Currently in our new books display is Love online by Jean-Claude Kaufmann ; translated by David Macey …Continue reading →

Scotland’s Religious Past : Unique Special Collections at New College Library, Edinburgh TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | Funk | Hymnology | New College Library | Pamphlets | Psalms | rare books Here at New College Library we’re rediscovering unique Special Collections items which tell the story of Scotland’s radical religious past. This item, The Lord’s trumpet sounding an alarm against Scotland, …Continue reading →

Index Religiosus Online now on trial TAGS: church history | databases | Divinity | online | Religious Studies | Theology & Ethics New on trial for University of Edinburgh users from 10 April to 11 May 2013 is the Index Religiosus Online. The Index Religiosus replaces the bibliography of the Revue d’histoire ecclésiastique …Continue reading →