The Hammond Organ in history TAGS: Funk | Hymnology | music | New College Library | Special Collections | twentieth-century Today, 11 January, is the anniversary of the birth of Laurens Hammond, inventor of the Hammond organ. New College Library holds this pamphlet, The Hammond Organ, published in the 1930s,  in …Continue reading →

The wood-walls of Scotland : a Christmas Carol TAGS: Christmas | Church of Scotland | Disruption | Free Church of Scotland | Hymn | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Pamphlets | Scotland | Special Collections New College Christmas Carol Service is taking place today at 5pm in the Martin Hall, led by members of the New College community and with singing from the New College Choir. Here’s a …Continue reading →

Remembering the life of Guru Nanak TAGS: Funk | India | New College Library | nineteenth-century | Pakistan | Pamphlets | sikhism | Special Collections Sikhs around the world will celebrate the birthday of Guru Nanak on Wednesday 28 November. Guru Nanak (1469-1539) was the founder of the Sikh religion. The life of Baba Nanuk, …Continue reading →

New College Library image collections online TAGS: Funk | images | New College Library | online | Special Collections | University of Edinburgh I’m very pleased to be able to tell you that over 200 images from New College Library’s collections are now available online through the University of Edinburgh Image Collections database. …Continue reading →

Gaelic hymns from the Highlands TAGS: Gaelic | hymnbooks | hymns | New College Library | nineteenth-century | rare books | Scotland | Special Collections New College Library’s recently catalogued Gaelic Collections contain several editions of  “Dain spioradail ” by the celebrated hymn writer Peter Grant. This edition at Gaelic Coll. 250  is the fifth …Continue reading →

To Africa with Love TAGS: Africa | Archives | missions | New College Library | research | Scotland | Special Collections | World Christianity | Z Collection Today’s Centre for the Study of World Christianity Research Seminar is presented by Dr Jack Thompson, ‘African mission photography: Light on Darkness’. This item, Reports of the Glasgow Missionary Society, from …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 →

Medieval Jewish Biblical Scholarship at New College Library TAGS: Bible | Biblical Studies | Dalman-Christie | Divinity | Funk | Hebrew | Jerusalem | Jewish | Judaism | Latin | medieval | New College Library | Old Testament | rare books | seventeenth-century | Special Collections This item from New College Library’s Special Collections is a biblical commentary on the Old Testament prophets by the Portuguese Jewish scholar Isaac Abravanel (1437-1508).   Abravanel was employed by King …Continue reading →

A Study in Syriac TAGS: Biblical Studies | Divinity | donations | Funk | Hebrew | Latin | New College Library | rare books | seventeenth-century | Special Collections | Syriac | University of Edinburgh Syriac has been taught at New College, Edinburgh, since its earliest days, as part of the family of ancient languages studied here. Today, for University of Edinburgh Students in years …Continue reading →

Historic record of Jewish festivals at New College Library TAGS: Church of Scotland | Dalman-Christie | Funk | Hebrew | Jerusalem | Jewish | Judaism | New College Library | rare books | Religious Studies | seventeenth-century | Special Collections It’s September 16 and the beginning of Rosh Hashanah,  the Jewish New Year festival. Rosh Hashanah customs include sounding the shofar, or ram’s horn trumpet, and eating apples dipped in …Continue reading →