Tag: rare books
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Cataloguing update: investigations in stenography
Read more: Cataloguing update: investigations in stenographyAt first glance this Bible appears relatively unassuming. I started cataloguing as I normally would by first looking at a book’s title page. As I had only paid attention to one part of the title ‘The Holy Bible containing the Old & New Testament’, I thought this would be a pretty straightforward job.
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Rare books at Campion Hall – fifth report
Read more: Rare books at Campion Hall – fifth reportThis is the fifth post in a series for our blog. It shares the reports written by Alison Felstead, Rare Books Cataloguer at Campion Hall, who has since April 2024 done sterling work on creating detailed records for those Heythrop Library rare books which are stored at Campion Hall. Below is the report received from Alison for the Heythrop…
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Appreciating unconventional rare books
Read more: Appreciating unconventional rare booksIt is common to think that the only ‘rare’ books in the Heythrop Library collection are pre-1800 or early print books. While this is partially true, some books are ‘rare’ because of their uniqueness and what they can teach us about scholars’ research. I recently encountered an interesting book from 1911 while cataloguing a group…