{"id":138,"date":"2012-06-18T08:43:54","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T08:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=138"},"modified":"2012-06-18T08:43:54","modified_gmt":"2012-06-18T08:43:54","slug":"treasures-of-new-college-library-the-dumfries-presbytery-library","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/06\/18\/treasures-of-new-college-library-the-dumfries-presbytery-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasures of New College Library : The Dumfries Presbytery Library"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Dumfries Presbytery Library is<strong> <\/strong>a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books\u00a0that was\u00a0first\u00a0documented in 1710, with the acceptance of a substantial donation of books from Dr John Hutton. It was used\u00a0as a lending library, for the ministers of Dumfries, for which records survive in a ledger in Dumfries&#8217;s <a title=\"Ewart Library, Dumfries\" href=\"http:\/\/www.dumgal.gov.uk\/index.aspx?articleid=3780\">Ewart Library<\/a>. Titles are marked : \u201cEx libris bibliothecae presbyterii Dumfriesiensis\u201d<a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/06\/dumfries1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-139\" title=\"Volumes from the Dumfries Presbytery Library\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/06\/dumfries1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/06\/dumfries1.jpg 800w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2012\/06\/dumfries1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In 1884, the decision was made to transfer the collection to the General Assembly Library in Edinburgh,\u00a0following a gale that damaged the roof of the presbytery house\u00a0letting in\u00a0rain that soaked the books.\u00a0With this transfer, at least some of the books were marked by the ownership stamp of the Library of the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland : the symbol of the burning bush surrounded by the words \u201cBibliotheca Ecclesiae Scoticanae\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In 1958 the General Assembly Library was transferred to New College Library, and the books of the Dumfries Presbytery Library were dispersed by subject as part of the New College Library collection. In 1962, New College Library came under the governance of Edinburgh University Library,\u00a0 and in 1965 John Howard took over as New College Librarian. He\u00a0took a particular interest in the Dumfries Presbytery Library and he reassembled c. 1500 volumes from the collection in their original pressmark order as a Special Collection.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2012, a project has begun to catalogue the Dumfries Presbytery Library online in its entirety. This project is one of the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/services\/library-museum-gallery\/finding-resources\/subject-guides\/divinity\/news\">\u00a0Funk Cataloguing Projects<\/a>\u00a0at <a title=\"New College Library\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/information-services\/services\/library-museum-gallery\/using-library\/lib-locate\/newcoll-lib\">New College Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Dumfries Presbytery Library is a collection of sixteenth and seventeenth century books\u00a0that was\u00a0first\u00a0documented in 1710, with the acceptance of a substantial donation of books from Dr John Hutton. It was used\u00a0as a lending library, for the ministers of Dumfries, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2012\/06\/18\/treasures-of-new-college-library-the-dumfries-presbytery-library\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[12,8],"tags":[35,46,59,78,108,131,154,159,171],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-2e","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/34"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/138\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}