Psalms for St Cecilia’s Day TAGS: eighteenth-century | Funk | Hymnology | music | New College Library | Psalms | rare books | saints | Scotland The feast of St Cecilia’s Day is traditionally celebrated on November 22nd.  A 3rd century martyr, St Cecilia is known as the patron saint of musicians. Her legend relates that, as …Continue reading →

Israel, the Assyrians and a shoemaker’s gift TAGS: Biblical Studies | Disruption | Divinity | donations | eighteenth-century | history | Israel | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Presbyterian | rare books | Special Collections | U.S.A. | Z Collection At todays’ opening seminar in the Divinity Biblical Studies Research Seminar series, the speaker is Dr Carly Crouch, Lecturer in Hebrew Bible, University of Nottingham, on “Israel and the Assyrians”. On …Continue reading →

New College Library record of Jacobite Edinburgh TAGS: Bonnie Prince Charlie | David Hume | Edinburgh | eighteenth-century | Funk | Jacobites | Pamphlets | rare books | Scotland | Special Collections On 15 September 1745 a Jacobite army was at the gates of Edinburgh. Charles Edward Stuart had arrived to attempt to regain the Scottish throne for the exiled House of …Continue reading →

Science and religion : a natural history TAGS: Divinity | eighteenth-century | natural history | New College Library | rare books | religion | science | Special Collections | University of Edinburgh Today’s Opening Lecture for the 2012-13 academic session at the School of Divinity will be given by Professor Wentzel van Huyssteen of Princeton Theological Seminary, and will launch the new …Continue reading →