New books at New College Library – June TAGS: Books | Divinity | library catalogue | New College Library | Patristics | science | 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 this month –  …Continue reading →

The Case of Mr. Ebenezer Erskine, founder of the Secession church in Scotland TAGS: Archives | church history | Church of Scotland | eighteenth-century | Funk | New College Library | Pamphlets | rare books | Scotland Ebenezer Erskine (1680–1754), a founder of the Secession church, died in Stirling on 2 June 1754. A celebrated preacher,  his opposition to patronage, when a local landowner could choose the  …Continue reading →

J.H. Oldham (1874-1969) : Missionary and Ecumenical Pioneer TAGS: Archives | Christianity | Church of Scotland | ecumenism | missions | New College Library | Theology & Ethics | twentieth-century | World Christianity Today, 16 May, is the anniversary of the death of J.H. Oldham. Joseph Houldsworth Oldham (1874-1969) was a missionary and pioneer of ecumenism. The organising secretary for the 1910 World …Continue reading →

New books at New College Library – May TAGS: Books | Divinity | Judaism | library catalogue | New College Library | Religious Studies | University of Edinburgh | World Christianity 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 this month  is Religion …Continue reading →

Happy Birthday NewCollegeLibrarian TAGS: New College Library | poll | University of Edinburgh This blog is one year old now and has had over 5,000 hits – thank you! I’d love to know a bit more about who out there is reading my blog, …Continue reading →

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 →

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 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 →