{"id":1659,"date":"2013-09-25T14:00:49","date_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/?p=1659"},"modified":"2013-09-25T14:00:49","modified_gmt":"2013-09-25T13:00:49","slug":"looking-at-the-acta-sanctorum-life-of-st-cuthbert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/09\/25\/looking-at-the-acta-sanctorum-life-of-st-cuthbert\/","title":{"rendered":"Looking at the Acta Sanctorum &#8211; Life of St Cuthbert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1660\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/09\/acta-sanctorum-x4a6.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1660\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1660\" alt=\"Acta Sanctorum Martii, vol. iii, (Antwerp, 1668), pp. 117\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/09\/acta-sanctorum-x4a6.jpg?w=300\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/09\/acta-sanctorum-x4a6.jpg 4608w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/09\/acta-sanctorum-x4a6-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2013\/09\/acta-sanctorum-x4a6-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1660\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Acta Sanctorum Martii, vol. iii, (Antwerp, 1668), pp. 117<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We welcomed University of Edinburgh <a title=\"MSc in Medieval History\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ed.ac.uk\/schools-departments\/history-classics-archaeology\/graduate-school\/programmes\/history\/taught-msc-medieval-history\/overview\" target=\"_blank\">MSc Medieval History<\/a> students today for a tour of New College Library and the chance to see one of the texts they were studying, the <b>Life of St Cuthbert<\/b>, in New College Library&#8217;s <a title=\"Treasures of New College Library : the Acta Sanctorum\" href=\"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/10\/treasures-of-new-college-library-the-acta-sanctorum\/\" target=\"_blank\">first edition of the <\/a><em><a title=\"Treasures of New College Library : the Acta Sanctorum\" href=\"http:\/\/newcollegelibrarian.wordpress.com\/2012\/05\/10\/treasures-of-new-college-library-the-acta-sanctorum\/\" target=\"_blank\">Acta Sanctorum,<\/a><\/em>\u00a0 which was on display in the Funk Reading Room. Published in the seventeenth century, the Acta Sanctorum, which contains the first printed edition of this work<em>, <\/em> is a huge Latin work in sixty-eight volumes examines the lives of saints, organised according to each saint\u2019s feast day in the calendar year. This image shows the large folio volume, still in its original leather binding with metal clasps, open at the Life of St Cuthbert. The Acta Sanctorum is also available online to University of Edinburgh users.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 Life of St Cuthbert, in New College Library&#8217;s first edition &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2013\/09\/25\/looking-at-the-acta-sanctorum-life-of-st-cuthbert\/\">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],"tags":[44,78,114,120,131,138,154,161,167,187],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-qL","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659"}],"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=1659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1659\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}