The Library and Archive Collections of the University of Aberdeen : an introduction and description / edited by Iain Beavan, Peter Davidson and Jane Stevenson

Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dust-wrapper. Particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 384 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), facsimiles ; 32 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 364-373) and index. Contents; I. The First Century -- II. The Second Century -- III. The Years from 1688-1790 -- IV. The College Libraries, 1790-1860 -- V. The Library since 1860 -- Essays -- 1. Papyri and Ostraca -- 2. MS 106: the Oldest Western Manuscript -- 3. The Aberdeen Bestiary / Jane Geddes -- 4. Ranulf Higden's Polychronicon: Manuscript 21 -- 5. Georgius de Sclavonia: De virginitate tuenda -- 6. The ?Burnet Psalter' -- 7. A commonplace manuscript with Chaucer's Treatise on the Astrolabe: Manuscript 123 -- 8. The St Paul's Manuscripts -- 9. Books of Devotion -- 10. Print and Piety -- 11. Illuminations -- 12. Renaissance Calligraphy -- 13. Janus Parrhasius: Annotations in Incunable 165 -- 14. Renaissance Texts of Euclid and Archimedes -- 15. The Hortus sanitatis and an English Manuscript Leechbook -- 16. The Aberdeen Codex of the Hebrew Bible / Evelyn Cohen -- 17. Paris Printing for the Scots market -- 18. Foundation Documents of the University Colleges of Aberdeen / Jennifer Carter -- 19. John Vaus and Early-Modern Scottish Book Culture / Kylie Murray -- 20. The Breviary of Aberdeen -- 21. Bishop Dunbar's Epistolare -- 22. Albrecht Durer's Unterweysung der Messung and Clarissimi pictoris et geometrae de symmetrica partium humanorum corporum / Tom Nichols -- 23. Humanism -- 24. A Copy of Arcadelt's Madrigals with Manuscript Additions / Roger Williams -- 25. Civitates orbis terrarum -- 26. Early Cartographic Holdings / Jeffrey Stone -- 27. The Yongle Dadian / David Helliwell -- 28. The New World -- 29. Herbals and Cognate Texts -- 30. Secretum secretorum: MS 944 and other works on Renaissance Magic / Bill Naphy -- 31. Early Modern Medicine -- 32. Bibles printed before 1700 / Henry R. Sefton -- 33. Duncan Liddel, Copernicus and Tycho Brahe -- 34. Early-Modern Aberdeen / Mary Pryor -- 35. Books of the Law -- 36. Early Bindings of Printed Books / Jane Pirie -- 37. Renaissance Architecture -- 38. James Fraser's Triennial Travels / Carol Morley -- 39. Andrew Marvell as Latinist: the Melvin Collection -- 40. Circumpolar Collections I -- 41. Paper Museums: Ole Worm and Athanasius Kircher -- 42. Description of Charleston, Carolina, 1692 -- 43. Jacobitism and Stuart Loyalism / Mary Pryor -- 44. Regenfuss's Book of Shells / Martyn Gorman -- 45. The Grand Tour / John Gash -- 46. The Papers of Thomas Reid / Paul Wood -- 47. The Gregory Family and their Collections -- 48. Early Scientific Journals / Nick Fisher -- 49. Science in the Enlightenment -- 50. Encyclopaedias and Encyclopaedists / Nick Fisher -- 51. The travels of a French Aristocrat in Britain, MS 2464 -- 52. Dr Jonathan Troup: Slavery and Emancipation in the West Indies / Roderick Macdonald -- 53. Estate archives: Buthlaw and Cairness -- 54. The Description of Egypt -- 55. Northern Scotland after the Risings / Mary Pryor -- 56. Chapbooks -- 57. Books on India: Subcontinental Printing -- 58. The Wonders of Creation / Yuka Kadoi -- 59. Literature of the Romantic Period / Keith O'Sullivan -- 60. The Bernard C. Lloyd Walter Scott Collection / Alison Lumsden -- 61. The Scots in India -- 62. Illustrated books -- 63. Audubon and The Birds of America / Alan Knox -- 64. William MacGillivray and Audubon / Alan Knox -- 65. John Gould / Jane Pirie -- 66. Persian Manuscripts / Yuka Kadoi -- 67. Scottish Music / Roger Williams -- 68. Aberdeen and the Gaelic World / Colm O. Baoill -- 69. Diaries and Journals / Colin Maclaren -- 70. William Blake and Samuel Palmer -- 71. Robert Wilson / Neil Curtis -- 72. Travels in Canada / Jackson W. Armstrong -- 73. Views of Australia / Andrew Dilley -- 74. Circumpolar Collections II -- 75. Charles Dickens / Paul Schlicke -- 76. Two Japanese Manuscripts / Yuka Kadoi -- 77. The Bies.