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Treasures of St Andrews University Library

Author : Norman H. Reid
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781906507152
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Treasures of St Andrews University Library written by Norman H. Reid and published by . This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Copies of the book, priced �15.00 (plus p&p) are available direct from��St Andrews University Library The collections which have gathered within St Andrews University Library are outstanding. Books from the dawn of European printing to contemporary fine imprints, including the fruits of over a century's status as a Copyright Deposit Library; manuscripts representing the breadth of human activity from the dawn of Christendom to modern times; an astonishing photographic archive, based on the position of St Andrews as one of the crucibles of early photographic development, which now contains almost 750,000 images taken in Scotland and across the globe between 1840 and the present day; and the university's own institutional archive, a living collection which documents the rich life of the institution from its foundation. This volume presents 50 selected items from across the collections, each accompanied by a short explanatory essay by an expert in the field. It also features an introductory essay outlining the history of St Andrews University Library from its beginnings in a few mediaeval cathedral book presses to the modern hub of learning within an institution of international academic reputation. "Scholars, staff and students at the University of St Andrews are extraordinarily privileged to have such precious resources to draw on as we make our own contributions to our academic community here in Scotland and beyond. I hope that this book will, in its turn, prove a source of inspiration and delight to its readers." (Louise Richardson, Principal and Vice-Chancellor) Edited by Norman H. Reid with Marc Boulay, Rachel Hart, Elizabeth Henderson, Moira Mackenzie and Maia Sheridan Specifications: hardback/softback, 250 x 210 mm, 160 pages, ISBN:��978 1 906507 15 2, publication: November 2010 ��

600 Years in the Making

Author : Helen Rawson
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1784421626
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (844 download)

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Download or read book 600 Years in the Making written by Helen Rawson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-06-16 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This guidebook presents stunning highlights from the treasures of the University of St Andrews collection, revealing objects from around the world and from ancient times to the present day. Featuring specially commissioned photography and articles on each object by the museum's co-director, this book brings the stories of these fascinating objects to a wider audience for the first time.

On Growth and Form

Author : D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015430990
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book On Growth and Form written by D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages

Author : Emily N. Savage
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 100385236X
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book New Approaches to the Archive in the Middle Ages written by Emily N. Savage and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2024-03-25 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume brings together scholars of history, manuscript studies, and art and architectural history to examine in conversation the varieties of medieval archival acts, the heterogeneity of collections, and the motivations of collectors. It is united by the historically flexible concept of the archive, and contributors examine material from Seville to Prague, from the early Christian period through the Reformation. Premodern collections and archival practices are increasingly becoming the subject of academic inquiry. Chapter authors investigate how institutional, communal, and familial identity accrued to material culture, including illuminated manuscripts, ecclesiastic vestments, ancient sarcophagi, and reliquaries. Others examine the social impulses behind the documentation of such collections, namely through the creation of inventories, but also in the production, management, and use of parchment records, including cartularies, estate records, and legal documents. Finally, contributors question how medieval people evaluated historical age and outmoded artistic styles; shaped and promoted collective memory through preservation, display, and ritual; and attached value, both monetary and symbolic, to their collections. The volume is cross-disciplinary and will appeal to a variety of readers, both in and out of academia. Curators, librarians, and archivists working with medieval collections will find it valuable, as will heritage professionals and charities involved in the care of properties which presently or formerly contained medieval treasuries, libraries, and archives.

Treasures of the University

Author : Helen C. Rawson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 380 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (66 download)

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Download or read book Treasures of the University written by Helen C. Rawson and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 380 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medieval St Andrews

Author : Michael Brown
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 178327168X
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (832 download)

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Download or read book Medieval St Andrews written by Michael Brown and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First extended treatment of the city of St Andrews during the middle ages. St Andrews was of tremendous significance in medieval Scotland. Its importance remains readily apparent in the buildings which cluster the rocky promontory jutting out into the North Sea: the towers and walls of cathedral, castleand university provide reminders of the status and wealth of the city in the Middle Ages. As a centre of earthly and spiritual government, as the place of veneration for Scotland's patron saint and as an ancient seat of learning, St Andrews was the ecclesiastical capital of Scotland. This volume provides the first full study of this special and multi-faceted centre throughout its golden age. The fourteen chapters use St Andrews as a focus for the discussion of multiple aspects of medieval life in Scotland. They examine church, spirituality, urban society and learning in a specific context from the seventh to the sixteenth century, allowing for the consideration of St Andrews alongside other great religious and political centres of medieval Europe. Michael Brown is Professor of Medieval Scottish History, University of St Andrews; Katie Stevenson is Keeper of Scottish History and Archaeology, National Museums Scotland and Senior Lecturer in Late Medieval History, University of St Andrews. Contributors: Michael Brown, Ian Campbell, David Ditchburn, Elizabeth Ewan, Richard Fawcett, Derek Hall, Matthew Hammond, Julian Luxford, Roger Mason, Norman Reid, Bess Rhodes, Catherine Smith, Katie Stevenson, Simon Taylor, Tom Turpie.

Treasures of Britain

Author : John Julius Norwich
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393057409
Total Pages : 766 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (574 download)

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Download or read book Treasures of Britain written by John Julius Norwich and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2002 with total page 766 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Offers alphabetical listings of more than two thousand locations, including gardens, historic houses, museums, and natural sites.

Treasures of Scottish Libraries

Author : National Library of Scotland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Treasures of Scottish Libraries written by National Library of Scotland and published by . This book was released on 1961 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain

Author : David Kemp
Publisher : Dundurn
ISBN 13 : 1550021591
Total Pages : 441 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain written by David Kemp and published by Dundurn. This book was released on 1992-01-12 with total page 441 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is a famous queen of Britain really bured beneath platform 10 at King's Cross station in London? What is the telephone number of the National Theatre? what is the best place to eat in Worcester? Where is the National Bagpipe Museum? (Hint: not in Scotland) Was Pointius Pilate born in Pitlochry? The answers to these questions and literally thousands more are to be found in David Kemp's fascinating guidebook, The Pleasures and Treasures of Britain. Nowhere else will the discerning traveller find so much diverse and essential information about British culture gathered together in one volume. With the author as your witty and knowledgeable guide, take a tour through nearly fifty cities, from Penzance to Perth, from London to Cardiff and Belfast. Each city section begins with a concise, readable history and a guided walk around the town, planned to take in as many of the significant local sights as can comfortably be included. Next are exhaustive listings, including telephone numbers and addresses, of everything a culturally curious visitor might want to seek out: theatre, art galleries, museums, antique markets, antiquarian and other bookstores, restaurants, lcoal fairs and festivals and more. Finally, under the headings of Artistic Associations and Ephemera, each section concludes with an entertaining collection of local lore, gossip, legend and anecdote.

Through Cyprus with the Camera, in the Autumn of 1878

Author : John Thomson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 59 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book Through Cyprus with the Camera, in the Autumn of 1878 written by John Thomson and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland

Author : Karen Attar
Publisher : Facet Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1783300167
Total Pages : 609 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (833 download)

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Download or read book Directory of Rare Book and Special Collections in the UK and Republic of Ireland written by Karen Attar and published by Facet Publishing. This book was released on 2016-05-31 with total page 609 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This directory is a handy on-volume discovery tool that will allow readers to locate rare book and special collections in the British Isles. Fully updated since the second edition was published in 1997. this comprehensive and up-to-date guide encompasses collections held in libraries, archives, museums and private hands. The Directory: Provides a national overview of rare book and special collections for those interested in seeing quickly and easily what a library holds Directs researchers to the libraries most relevant for their research Assists libraries considering acquiring new special collections to assess the value of such collections beyond the institution,showing how they fit into a ‘unique and distinctive’ model. Each entry in the Directory provides background information on the library and its purpose, full contact details, the quantity of early printed books, information about particular subject and language strengths, information about unique works and important acquisitions, descriptions of named special collections and deposited collections. Readership: Researchers, academic liaison librarians and library managers.

The Beginning and the End of the World

Author : Robert Crawford
Publisher : Birlinn
ISBN 13 : 0857900587
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (579 download)

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Download or read book The Beginning and the End of the World written by Robert Crawford and published by Birlinn. This book was released on 2011-06-14 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a work of spectacular imagination and remarkable synthesis, poet Robert Crawford celebrates St Andrews, the first town in the world to have its people, buildings and natural environment thoroughly documented through photography. The Beginning and the End of the World tells the stories of several pioneering Scottish photographers, linking their work to one of the nineteenth century's most scandalous and hotly debated publications. Here is the extraordinary intellectual life of an eccentric society rich in apocalyptically-minded Victorian inventors and authors whose work has had an international impact. The protagonists include a very quarrelsome professor, a cello-playing ex-military golfer, a notorious scientist, a married couple coping with mental breakdown and a physician obsessed with sewage. In paying full attention to these people's inter-relationship, implicitly and explicitly this book suggests that their lasting legacies may have a bearing on our own arguments about environmental sustainability and the possibility of largescale extinction.

Iran and the Deccan

Author : Keelan Overton
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 025304894X
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Iran and the Deccan written by Keelan Overton and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-02 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early 1400s, Iranian elites began migrating to the Deccan plateau of southern India. Lured to the region for many reasons, these poets, traders, statesmen, and artists of all kinds left an indelible mark on the Islamic sultanates that ruled the Deccan until the late seventeenth century. The result was the creation of a robust transregional Persianate network linking such distant cities as Bidar and Shiraz, Bijapur and Isfahan, and Golconda and Mashhad. Iran and the Deccan explores the circulation of art, culture, and talent between Iran and the Deccan over a three-hundred-year period. Its interdisciplinary contributions consider the factors that prompted migration, the physical and intellectual poles of connectivity between the two regions, and processes of adaptation and response. Placing the Deccan at the center of Indo-Persian and early modern global history, Iran and the Deccan reveals how mobility, liminality, and cultural translation nuance the traditional methods and boundaries of the humanities.

Library Bulletin of the University of Saint Andrews

Author : University of St. Andrews. Library
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 602 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Library Bulletin of the University of Saint Andrews written by University of St. Andrews. Library and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 602 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Library Bulletin of the University of St. Andrews

Author : University of St. Andrews
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 580 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (891 download)

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Download or read book Library Bulletin of the University of St. Andrews written by University of St. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 580 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

British librarianship and information work 2006-2010

Author : J. H. Bowman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1471683524
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book British librarianship and information work 2006-2010 written by J. H. Bowman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2012-04-01 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the latest in an important series of reviews going back to 1928. The book contains 26 chapters, written by experts in their field, and reviews developments in the principal aspects of British librarianship and information work in the years 2006-2010.

British librarianship and information work 2011-2015

Author : J. H. Bowman
Publisher : Lulu.com
ISBN 13 : 1326820478
Total Pages : 563 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (268 download)

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Download or read book British librarianship and information work 2011-2015 written by J. H. Bowman and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on 2017-01-24 with total page 563 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the latest in an important series of reviews going back to 1928. The book contains 28 chapters, written by experts in their field, and reviews developments in the principal aspects of British librarianship and information work in the years 2011-2015.