Student interns in Stack III this summer TAGS: New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century | students Over this summer, our three student interns, Thomas, Holly and Mila have been hard at work behind the scenes in New College Library’s Stack III. Their task was to work with …Continue reading →

Jewish Studies Collections at New College library : early books TAGS: Biblical Studies | Hebrew | Jewish | Judaism | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century This week New College welcomes the British Association for Jewish Studies Conference to Edinburgh. Delegates are welcome to visit New College Library where they’ll find a display of Jewish Studies …Continue reading →

Psalm singing and the Reformation TAGS: Church of Scotland | Psalms | Reformation | Scotland | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century New College Library welcomes delegates to The Cultures of the Reformation: A Colloquium in Honour of Professor Jane Dawson on Thursday 1 June 2017. We have updated our current display …Continue reading →

Psalms in public and private TAGS: embroidery | Psalms | Reformation | Scotland | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century New College Library welcomes the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland this week with a display of early psalm books. During the period 1564-1644, around 70 editions of the …Continue reading →

‘Scotland’s last martyr’ : remembering James Renwick TAGS: Covenanters | seventeenth-century February was a suitable month to remember James Renwick  (15 February 1662 – 17 February 1688). Renwick was a graduate of Edinburgh University who accepted a call to the ministry within the independent Presbyterian …Continue reading →

Ministry and medicine TAGS: Divinity | Dumfries Presbytery Library | Funk | Incunabula | New College Library | seventeenth-century Today we’re welcoming a group from the EAHIL + ICAHIS + ICLC 2015 Workshop to New College Library. The Workshop is a collaboration between the European Association for Health Information …Continue reading →

Rare Mass for the Dead from the MH Collection TAGS: Catholic | Funk | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century A guest post from Paul Nicholas, Funk Projects Cataloguer We were delighted this week to discover a rare Mass for the Dead in the MH Collection at New College Library. …Continue reading →

New digital resources for Puritan thought TAGS: Divinity | history | online | seventeenth-century I’m pleased to report that we now have access to digital collections from Oxford Scholarly Editions, including the seventeenth-century prose collection. This contains several titles of interest to researchers in Puritan …Continue reading →

Jewish scholarship on display at New College Library TAGS: Dalman-Christie | Divinity | eighteenth-century | Funk | Hebrew | Jewish | Longforgan | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | sixteenth-century In celebration of the public lecture on The Bible and the Mishnah by Professor Shaye J D Cohen, Harvard University on Tuesday 5 May, we currently have Jewish texts from our …Continue reading →

Easter Greetings from New College Library TAGS: Church of Scotland | Easter | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century New College Library is open as usual for semester time over the Easter period, see Library Opening hours for more detail. When visiting, take a moment to look at our Special Collections …Continue reading →