Echoes from the Vault » USTC

Dr Sandra Toffolo, Postdoctoral Research Assistant in the School of History, takes a look at John Lesley’s De illustrium foeminarum in republica administranda, ac ferendis legibus authoritate l...

https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2018/02/28/a-treatise-on-famous-female-rulers/

Postdoctoral Research Assistant (and former Lighting the Past Cataloguer), Drew Thomas, highlights the St Andrews University Library’s 1529 edition of Luther’s preface to the Psalter, Praefat...

https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2018/02/16/a-new-edition-by-martin-luther/

Material culture can prove beneficial, if not essential, to help us understand historical events, literature, science and art. Throughout the history of mankind, the materiality of day-to-day lif...

https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2014/11/10/seeing-the-light-in-a-dark-room-paper-as-evidence-workshop-hosted-by-school-of-history-and-special-collections/

On the 15th of May, Hermine Lefebvre, USTC/ENSSIB intern for 2014, completed a wonderful cataloguing project which has seen all of St Andrews’ 17th century editions of Athanasius Kircher added ...

https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2014/06/03/cataloguing-of-all-17th-century-books-by-athanasius-kircher-complete/

I’ve been keeping my eye on this summer’s calendar of events, and it’s looking like St Andrews is the place to be this summer if you are a lover of books or a book historian. There are four...

https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2013/02/14/st-andrews-this-summer-is-the-place-to-be-for-historians-and-lovers-of-the-book/

A new database promising to provide access to all books published before 1601, in all languages, will be launched on 22 November 2011. The Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC) will contain a to...

https://special-collections.wp.st-andrews.ac.uk/2011/11/19/universal-short-title-catalogue-ustc-to-launch-on-tuesday-22-november-2011/