{"id":1940,"date":"2014-08-01T10:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-08-01T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=1940"},"modified":"2014-07-24T09:28:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-24T09:28:42","slug":"treasures-of-new-college-library-andrew-melvilles-bible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2014\/08\/01\/treasures-of-new-college-library-andrew-melvilles-bible\/","title":{"rendered":"Treasures of New College Library – Andrew Melville’s Bible"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Knox<\/a>

Biblia sacra utriusque Testamenti … [1529]. New Collegel Library, Knox 3.<\/p><\/div>One of the pleasures of being a librarian is\u00a0the serendipity of\u00a0discovering something special on the shelves whilst engaged in\u00a0looking for something completely different. Whilst looking at materials about the Congregational Church in New College Library’s Special Collections recently, I came across this\u00a0sixteenth-century Bible<\/a>\u00a0on an adjacent shelf. Manuscript notes attribute it to be ‘Andrew Melville’s Bible’, and the title page is certainly signed “A. Melville.”<\/p>\n

\"John<\/a><\/p>\n

This item is part of a small collection which at one time was housed at John Knox House in Edinburgh,\u00a0although our provenance documentation records the ownership as being Church of\u00a0Scotland.<\/p>\n

Born on 1 August 1545 Andrew Melville<\/span>\u00a0<\/a>(1545\u20131622), theologian, Biblical scholar\u00a0and Presbyterian leader,\u00a0had a scholarly career as Principal of Glasgow Unviersity and Principal of St Mary’s College, St Andrews University. He f<\/span>ollowed in the footsteps of John Knox as a defender of Reformation and Presbyterian principles, which at times\u00a0set him in opposition with King James I of England and VI of Scotland.<\/p>\n

James Kirk, \u2018Melville, Andrew<\/span>\u00a0 (1545\u20131622)<\/span>\u2019, O<\/i><\/span>xford Dictionary of National Biography<\/i>, Oxford University Press, 2004 [http:\/\/www.oxforddnb.com\/view\/article\/18543, accessed 24 July 2014]<\/p>\n

Christine Love-Rodgers, Academic Support Librarian – Divinity<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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