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 →

Missionary to the North – The Paterson Bible Collection TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Funk | missions | New College Library | rare books | russia | World Christianity In early 2014 we began work to catalogue the Paterson Bible Collection, as part of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library. This collection of over 300 Bibles in …Continue reading →

Dumfries Presbytery Library Project at New College Library now complete TAGS: Divinity | Funk | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century We’re pleased to announce that the Dumfries Presbytery Library Cataloguing Project is now complete. This project is one of the Funk Cataloguing Projects at New College Library.   This is a collection …Continue reading →

The ‘Z’ Factor New College Special Collections Project now complete TAGS: Divinity | Funk | New College Library | rare books                 We’re pleased to announce that the Z Collection at New College Library, which numbers almost 5,000 Special Collections items, has now been completely catalogued online as …Continue reading →

In the beginning was the word : Bibles at New College Library TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Divinity | Funk | New College Library | rare books | Reformation | sixteenth-century Yesterday we were pleased to welcome staff and students on exchange from Dartmouth College, USA to a classroom session viewing items from New College Library’s historic Bibles collection. Examples included a …Continue reading →

Looking at the Acta Sanctorum – Life of St Cuthbert TAGS: church history | Funk | Latin | medieval | New College Library | online | rare books | saints | seventeenth-century | University of Edinburgh We welcomed University of Edinburgh MSc Medieval History students today for a tour of New College Library and the chance to see one of the texts they were studying, the …Continue reading →

New College Library Rare Books feature in Divinity Inaugural Lecture TAGS: Divinity | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | University of Edinburgh Today Professor Susan Hardman Moore, Professor of Early Modern Religion, will deliver her inaugural lecture entitled ‘Time’ at 2pm. Professor Hardman-Moore’s lecture features a number of seventeenth century rare books from …Continue reading →

Piping treasure on display in ‘The Piper’s Whim’ Exhibition TAGS: bagpipes | Gaelic | music | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Scotland Currently on display at St Cecilia’s Hall, Cowgate, Edinburgh is an instruction book on the bagpipe  (in Gaelic Pibroch, or, Ceol mor, or, literally, Big music) from New College Library’s Gaelic Collection. …Continue reading →

From slave trader to ‘Amazing Grace’ – John Newton TAGS: Church of England | Divinity | eighteenth-century | Hymn | hymns | New College Library | rare books | revival | slavery | Special Collections | Z Collection Today marks the anniversary of the birth of John Newton, Anglican clergyman and hymn writer. This volume from New College Library’s Special Collections tells his remarkable story. The Authentic narrative …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 →