Centre For Research Collections, University Of Edinburgh

We are delighted to be offering TWO student internships this summer! We're working with University of Edinburgh Careers Service and their brilliant Employ.Ed scheme to give students 10 weeks work experience with us.
One of the internships is based in our Conservation Studio and will focus on the scientific analysis of collections using a portable XRF and the other is working with Lothian Health Services Archive on the Bioengineering pioneer David Gow's personal archive.
Cl...osing date is 20th February, all the details are available here:
https://www.ed.ac.uk/ŌĆ”/employed-on-camŌ Ć”/2019-liveinternships
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As a part of the Employ.ed programme, the conservation studio is hosting a 10-week internship which will focus on the scientific analysis of collections using a portable XRF.
Follow the link below and find "Scientific Analysis of Heritage Collections Intern" for more information. Deadline 20 February.
https://www.ed.ac.uk/ŌĆ”/employed-on-camŌ Ć”/2019-liveinternships

Fantastic beasts and where to find them. Our copy of Petrus Comestor's Scholastica historia (c.1485), apparently.

We've got a new regular feature in The Student about our collections - read the first article here: http://www.studentnewspaper.org/the-unive rsity-of-edinburgŌĆ”/
All thanks to our fantastic volunteer Lily!

It's Burns Night today - for the occasion, here's a lovely selection of Burns' songs, nicely illustrated by ECA student John Short (ECA/TYP/1/134, 1970s)

Donald Trump meets Latin satire: over on our Rare Books blog. Read about another contribution to the student Notgeld project, satirising current American politics, along with political satire from Elizabethan England. http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/ŌĆ”/rare- books-expect-the-unŌĆ”/

A glimpse of some of the Margaret Morris archive returning to its home at the Fergusson Gallery, Perth, yesterday. Six crates of the pioneering dancer's archive have now been cleaned, rehoused and repaired by our brilliant conservation team as part of the 'Body Language' project!

What initially looks like a normal title page in Iulii Firmici Astronomicorum (Aldus 1499) actually has the woodcut from the title page of Ex recognitione Des Erasmi Roterodami (Froben, 1518) pasted on it!

Louise Gardiner, Philip E. Bennett, and Sarah Carpenter have published a fantastic article on the five Jousting Letters of the Royal Letter Book (MS 183), a medieval manuscript from our collection written in the 1390s-1410s and containing several hundred copy letters of royal correspondence. Jousting letters were a kind of "fantasy letters", in which mythological queens or ladies recommended worthy combatants to the lady presiding over a joust at the English court. A fascinating read! (Medium Aevum is available at the Main Library) http://aevum.space/journal

Even more unexpected... can't get enough of Rare Books? Pop over to the Rare Books blog to see some of the fab student artwork which accompanies the exhibition. http://libraryblogs.is.ed.ac.uk/ŌĆ”/rare- books-expect-the-unŌĆ”/

A new year and a new blog from LHSA: https://lhsa.blogspot.com/2019/01/new-yea r-new-horizons.html

Found this wee dog having a rest between the pages of our copy of Johannes Eschuid's Summa astrologiae iudicialis (1489)