{"id":2115,"date":"2015-03-25T16:09:03","date_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:09:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=2115"},"modified":"2015-03-25T16:09:03","modified_gmt":"2015-03-25T16:09:03","slug":"unwrapping-the-martin-hall-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2015\/03\/25\/unwrapping-the-martin-hall-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Unwrapping the Martin Hall Collection"},"content":{"rendered":"

This January we began cataloguing work on the MR Collection from New College Library’s Special Collections. This sequence contains much early and rare material, and\u00a0carries the shelfmark MR because at one time these books were housed in the Martin Hall in New College.<\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of Paul Nicholas<\/p><\/div>\n

We were really excited to find this lovely item,\u00a0Historia apostolica illustrata : ex actis apostolorum et epistolis Paulinis<\/em><\/a>. Published in seventeenth century Geneva, the author Louise Cappel writes about the works of the apostles, and Paul in particular. What’s immediately striking about it is that it is covered with a vellum wrapper (waste parchment) with beautiful manuscript lettering.<\/span><\/p>\n

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Image courtesy of Paul Nicholas<\/p><\/div>\n

While further research is required on the wrapper, it appears to be a medieval liturgical text.\u00a0The back cover (pictured) is\u00a0in honour of St. Nicholas, with his name appearing in the line with the musical notation.<\/p>\n

Christine Love-Rodgers – Academic Support Librarian, Divinity<\/em><\/p>\n

Paul Nicholas – Funk Cataloguer <\/em><\/p>\n

Elizabeth Lawrence – Rare Books Librarian<\/em><\/p>\n

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