{"id":2390,"date":"2016-01-05T10:10:41","date_gmt":"2016-01-05T10:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/?p=2390"},"modified":"2016-01-05T10:10:41","modified_gmt":"2016-01-05T10:10:41","slug":"keeping-in-with-the-old","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2016\/01\/05\/keeping-in-with-the-old\/","title":{"rendered":"Keeping in with the old"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One of the delights of the New College Library archives is that it contains information on an array of subjects not just theological or religious topics. This is thanks in part to the original composition of New College Library from donations of libraries, which were given more often than not without worrying too much about content.<\/p>\n<p>There are several places where records relating to the study and understanding of languages other than English can be found.\u00a0This image is from a volume of polyglot vocabulary (ref.BIN5) written by Robert Blair Munro Binning (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk\/docs\/lib-archive\/bgallery\/Gallery\/records\/eighteen\/binning.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/www.docs.is.ed.ac.uk\/docs\/lib-archive\/bgallery\/Gallery\/records\/eighteen\/binning.html<\/a>). According to the catalogue the languages represented are English, Arabic, French, Hebrew, Persian, Greek, Sanskrit, Latin, Turkish, Telugu, Gaelic and Hindi.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/MSS-BIN5-year.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2391\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/MSS-BIN5-year.jpg\" alt=\"Page from Polyglot Vocabulary by Robert Blair Munro Binning ref. MSS BIN5\" width=\"650\" height=\"825\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/MSS-BIN5-year.jpg 650w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/MSS-BIN5-year-236x300.jpg 236w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aside from being a useful tome, I thought that the mix of scripts gave it a certain beauty. The page I have chosen, struck me as appropriate for this time of year, containing as it does the words \u2018year\u2019 and \u2018yawn\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>Happy New Year! Bliadhna Mhath \u00d9r! A Guid New Year! Bonne Ann\u00e9e! etc etc\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Kirsty M Stewart, New College Collections Curator<br \/>\nFurther information: catalogue of items in the Binning collection.<a href=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/NCL-catalogue-entry-for-MSS-BIN.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2392\" src=\"http:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/NCL-catalogue-entry-for-MSS-BIN.png\" alt=\"Catalogue entry for MSS BIN , records created by or belonging to Robert Blair Munro Binning\" width=\"2292\" height=\"1610\" srcset=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/NCL-catalogue-entry-for-MSS-BIN.png 2292w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/NCL-catalogue-entry-for-MSS-BIN-300x211.png 300w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/NCL-catalogue-entry-for-MSS-BIN-1024x719.png 1024w, https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/files\/2015\/12\/NCL-catalogue-entry-for-MSS-BIN-427x300.png 427w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2292px) 100vw, 2292px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One of the delights of the New College Library archives is that it contains information on an array of subjects not just theological or religious topics. This is thanks in part to the original composition of New College Library from &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/2016\/01\/05\/keeping-in-with-the-old\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p42UaT-Cy","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390"}],"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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2390"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2395,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2390\/revisions\/2395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk\/newcollegelibrarian\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}