Given in Good Faith : Worship TAGS: Divinity | Funk | Hymnology | New College Library | rare books Currently open on the sixth floor of the Main Library at the University of Edinburgh, the  Given in Good Faith exhibition explores themes of church history, worship, scripture and science through …Continue reading →

Given in Good Faith : Making Presbyterian History TAGS: Church of Scotland | Ecclesiastical History | Funk | New College Library | rare books | Special Collections If you visit the Given in Good Faith exhibition, currently open at the Centre for Research Collections, you’ll be able to see some of New College Library’s treasures set in the …Continue reading →

Trees, torture and the TR Collection TAGS: Funk | New College Library | rare books | TR At New College Library we’ve been busy cataloguing the TR Collection, one of the Funk Donation funded projects, and over 1500 items have been catalogued so far. Believed to have …Continue reading →

‘Given in Good Faith’ exhibition opening next week TAGS: Funk | New College Library | Special Collections We’re very excited about our forthcoming exhibition, Given in Good Faith, which uses some of New College Library’s treasures to explore themes of church history, worship, science and scripture. From its earliest beginnings in …Continue reading →

Thinking of donating books to New College Library? TAGS: alumni | Books | Divinity | donations | New College Library | students New College Library welcomes donations of recent publications that support the current teaching and research of the School of Divinity. And donations of books which record the intellectual output of the …Continue reading →

Women’s voices at New College Library TAGS: Church of Scotland | missionary | New College Library | Theology & Ethics | World Christianity After my last blog post which focused on the women who gave their books to support the foundation of New College Library, I’ve been thinking about some of the collections we have which …Continue reading →

The women behind New College Library TAGS: Archives | New College Library | nineteenth-century If you visit New College Library today, International Women’s Day, women might seem  hard to find amongst the portraits and busts of Thomas Chalmers and John Knox, and the shelves filled with …Continue reading →

Look, there’s a libretto in the library! TAGS: DiscoverEd | Funk | music | New College Library | Pamphlets | rare books It’s not every day that you find a rare edition of Handel’s Messiah in your library but I’m delighted to say that we have one at New College Library! This recently catalogued pamphlet …Continue reading →

Keeping it in the family TAGS: Bible | Free Church of Scotland | Funk | New College Library | rare books At New College Library we often receive enquiries from individuals interested in researching their family bibles, who have identified that we hold the same or similar edition at New College …Continue reading →

The joy of cataloguing TAGS: Funk | Hymnology | New College Library | rare books One of our Funk Project cataloguers showed me this item The Fullness of Joy by Frances Ridley Havergal (Hymn 3926) this morning. After a humdrum week of working through variant editions …Continue reading →