Foreword Louise Richardson
Preface Norman H. Reid
Contributors
St Andrews University Library Elizabeth Henderson
Spotlight on the Special Collections Marc Boulay, Rachel Hart, Elizabeth Henderson and
Maia Sheridan
The Treasures
1. Charter of Walter, prior of St Andrews, 1189–95 Robert Bartlett
2. George Allan Little, ‘Boatbuilding at Anstruther’, 1973 Marc Boulay
3. The Original Chronicle of Andrew Wyntoun, c.1550 Michael Brown
4. Genealogical roll of the kings of England, 15th century Margaret Connolly
5. Luca Pacioli, Divina Proportione, 1509 Alex D.D. Craik
6. Library receipt books and borrowing registers, 1737–1925 Robert Crawford
7. Architectural drawing of the university library by Robert Reid, 1827 Robin D.A. Evetts
8. Robert Adamson and David Octavius Hill, ‘Scott Monument, Edinburgh, during construction’, c.1844 Duncan Forbes
9. John Thomson, ‘A Cyprian Maid’, 1878 Luke Gartlan
10. Augustine of Hippo, De trinitate and De civitate Dei cum commento, 1489 Christine Gascoigne
11. Werner Rolevinck, Fasciculus Temporum, 1478 Christopher Given-Wilson
12. Hamish M. Brown, ‘The Quirang Needle’, 1996 Philip Gribbon
13. John Duns Scotus, Quaestiones in quatuor libros Sententiarum and Quodlibeta, 1481 John Haldane
14. Matrix of university seal, 1414–18 Rachel Hart
15. Notebook by Douglas Dunn, 1979–83 Chris Jones
16. Presentation album for Louisa Lumsden, 1900 Ann J. Kettle
17. Three photographs by John Edward Aloysius Steggall, 1895–1906 Antonia Laurence-Allen
18. Selected items from the Andrew Lang Collections of books and papers, 1860s–1910 Sara Lodge
19. Psalter with Sarum use calendar, c.1425–75
Julian Luxford
20. The Catechisme, 1552 John McCallum
21. Statutes of St Leonard’s College, 1544 Christine McGladdery
22. Bustan of Sa’di, late 18th century Moira Mackenzie
23. Sebastian Münster, Cosmographiae universalis lib[ri] VI, 1550 Matthew McLean
24. Portfolio of drawings by Mutio Oddi of Urbino and others, 17th century Alexander Marr
25. Seafaring journal of Alexander Gillespie, 1662–85 Paula Martin
26. Andrew Melville’s copy of George Buchanan, Rerum Scoticarum Historia, 1582 Roger Mason
27. Three manuscripts by Isaac Newton, c.1700 P.G. Maxwell-Stuart
28. Gilbert Franklyn, Observations, occasioned by the attempts made in England to effect the abolition of the slave trade, 1788 Lorna Milne
29. D’Arcy Wentworth Thompson’s annotated copy of On Growth and Form, 1942 Martin Milner
30. Maria Sybilla Merian, Metamorphosis Insectorum Surinamensium, 1705 Robert Mitchell
31. John Adamson, stereographic self-portrait, c.1845 A.D. Morrison-Low
32. Nicolas de Nicolay, La navigation du Roy d’Escosse, 1583 Steve Murdoch
33. Five photographs by James Valentine & Sons, 1878–1958 Tom Normand
34. Johannes de Sacro Bosco, Sphaera Mundi, 1490 Andrew Pettegree
35. Bull of Pope Benedict XIII, 1413 Norman H. Reid
36. Lecture notes on dialectic by John Malcolm, c.1584–6 Steven John Reid
37. Galileo Galilei, Difesa, 1607 Edmund F. Robertson
38. William Hamilton, Campi Phlegraei, 1776 Nicholas Roe
39. Letter from William Fox Talbot to James David Forbes, 1839 Larry J. Schaaf
40. Letter from John Row to his uncle, 1691 Maia Sheridan
41. George M. Cowie, ‘Gas mask fitting, St Andrews’, 1939 Robert Smart
42. Four photographic portraits by John Adamson, 1860s Graham Smith
43. Two photographs by Robert Moyes Adam, 1930 and 1937 T.C. Smout
44. Selected works of Augustine of Hippo, c.1190 Clive R. Sneddon
45. Govard Bidloo, Anatomia Humani Corporis, 1685 Thomas Traill and Kay Redfield Jamison
46. Complutensian Polyglot Bible, 1514–17 Kristin De Troyer
47. Heures de nostre Dame a l’usaige de Chartres, 1558 Malcolm Walsby
48. Timurid Qur’an, AH845/AD1441–2 J. Tia Wheeler
49. Hieronymus Brunschwig, Das Buch zu Distillieren, 1519 Pat Willmer
50. Acta Facultatis Artium, 1413–1588, 1615–1728 Isla Woodman
Index
Treasures by material type and date
