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Reading the Collections, Week 25: Shining Jewels of the East | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 25: Shining Jewels of the East. By St Andrews Special Collections. Delving into the background of these leaves with the help of a couple of very useful websites, it would seem that we have a number of different sets of Kammavaca leaves, almost all incomplete, and from various times and places. The Kammavaca is a rel...
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Reading the Collections, Week 20: Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 20: Dame Wiggins of Lee, and her seven wonderful cats. By St Andrews Special Collections. In Rare Book Collection. Those who know of John Ruskin (1819-1900) as Victorian Britain’s preeminent art critic and author of titles such as. The Stones of Venice. The Seven Lamps of Architecture. It tells of the adventures of ...
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. To preserve and develop the collections in our care. To make the collections accessible to both academic and public audiences. To market the Division’s services and resources. To support the Library’s strategic mission, and the University’s aims of excellence in teaching, learning and research. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here.
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Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 21: The Floppy Disks of the Holy Collection. By St Andrews Special Collections. Back in April, we received an addition to the Ladislav Holy. Collection – Ladislav Holy. Ladislav Holy with the Berti Tribe, Sudan. From the Ladislav Holy Social Anthropology Photographs of Africa Collection. Digital preservation is not ...
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Reading the Collections, Week 22: Agatha Christie’s favourite detective novel | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 22: Agatha Christie’s favourite detective novel. By St Andrews Special Collections. In Rare Book Collection. My Brother’s Killer. From the Crime Classic Series. When looking for material to read for this blog series, I decided to look at the modern fiction within the St Andrews Collection. Mr Brother’s Killer. Had a...
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Reading the Collections, Week 19: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 19: Wilkie Collins, The Moonstone. By St Andrews Special Collections. In Rare Book Collection. Front cover of the 1894 edition of Wilkie Collins’. Har PR4494.M7 1894. Despite being a keen detective fiction fan, until recently I had never read any of the works of Wilkie Collins. Published in the weekly serial. The no...
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Reading the Collections, Week 27: University Calendars and the office of Bedellus | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Reading the Collections, Week 27: University Calendars and the office of Bedellus. By St Andrews Special Collections. At the end of July, John Jardine, University Bedellus. For this week’s Reading the Collections post, I turned to the. But elements are no longer publicly accessible and searching the website back to 2003 is always challenging.
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52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 40: The Photographic Postcard | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. 52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 40: The Photographic Postcard. By St Andrews Special Collections. Scottish National Exhibition, Edinburgh, 1908. J. Valentine and Co. Medium: Real Photo (Gelatin Silver Print). St Andrews copy at JV-Exhib-ScoNat-Un-16. Are putting on an exhibition. Central Promenade, Blackpool, 1919. J. Valentine...Mediu...
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St Andrews Special Collections | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Author Archives: St Andrews Special Collections. Victorian cloth bindings, week 2: grains. By St Andrews Special Collections. The idea of using cotton cloth as a covering for books probably originated with the London publisher William Pickering, whilst the binder Archibald Leighton solved the earliest technical problems of […]. Treasures of St A...
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Lighting the Past completes the Shewan Collection | Echoes from the Vault
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Echoes from the Vault. A blog from the Special Collections of the University of St Andrews. About the Photographic Collections. About the Rare Books Collections. Lighting the Past completes the Shewan Collection. By St Andrews Special Collections. In Rare Book Collection. One of the many busts of Homer. Consists of works bound into 250 volumes, all dealing with Homeric scholarship. Of all the collections to be catalogued by the Phase 1 team, the Shewan Collection. A depiction of the shield of Achilles.
