Thread by @ilikeoldbooks, since I only got the briefest of introductions to the wonders of [...]

since I only got the briefest of introductions to the wonders of the @CRC_EdUni, I& #39;m taking 15 minutes out of every day to explore them digitally on https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/

join">https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/">... me on this #Quarantine -long digital deep-dive into the collections 1/x
#crisislibrarianship

no surprise that this is first on my list - taking a look at #DavidLaing & his collection of charters (immense). Here& #39;s La.V/12 - Alexander III confirming a gift of land between the Monteforti brothers of East Lothian, with fragmentary seal of Margaret http://lac-archives-live.is.ed.ac.uk:8081/repositories/2/archival_objects/11564"> http://lac-archives-live.is.ed.ac.uk:8081/repositories/2/archival_objects/11564

day 2 of my @CRC_EdUni digital collections deep-dive:
early portraiture is on my mind today, and love this calotype of Rev John Jaffray and Dhanjibhai Nauroji, a Parsi convert who came to @SchoolofDiv in 1843. (Coll-1073, f. 142) #crisislibrarianship https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/UoEcar~4~4~46966~102439:Calotypes-and-Portraits,-vol-II,-f-?sort=work_creator_name%2Cwork_shelfmark%2Cwork_source_page_no%2Cwork_title&qvq=w4s:/who%2FNauroji%25252C%2BDhanjiobai;sort:work_creator_name%2Cwork_shelfmark%2Cwork_source_page_no%2Cwork_title;lc:UoEcar~4~4&mi=2&trs=3#">https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/serv...

day 3, deep-diving into the @CRC_EdUni collections: here& #39;s 9 gastropods collected by #Darwin on St Helena in 1836 on the return home aboard HMS Beagle, later presented to #CharlesLyell (EUCM.0180.2013) #crisislibrarianship #geosciences https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/UoEsha~5~5~84788~103461:9-gastropods-in-a-square-box-inscri?sort=work_title%2Csequence%2Cwork_creator_details%2Cwork_shelfmark#">https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/serv...

day 4, finishing this week& #39;s deep-dive into the @CRC_EdUni collections: a welcome blast of colour from these brocade papers wrapping Edinburgh legal theses from the second half of the 18th cent, all bound together at CRC Bdg.s.3-4. #endpapers
https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/UoEgal~5~5~55144~105126:Edinburgh-Legal-Theses?sort=work_shelfmark%2Csequence%2Cwork_source_page_no%2Cwork_record_id#">https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/serv...

day 5 of my quarantine deep-dive into @CRC_EdUni collections: really feeling the need for escape today and loved coming across this 15th cent copy of Peter of Eboli& #39;s verses on the thermal baths in #Campania (MS 176) #medievaltwitter #bathtime
https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/160996">https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositor...

day 6 of my quarantine deep-dive into @CRC_EdUni collections, I& #39;m taking a virtual tour of @StCeciliasHall - LOOK at the detail on this 1586 virginal by Allessandro Bertoloti and LISTEN to its gorgeous sound here: https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/record/17163?highlight">https://collections.ed.ac.uk/mimed/rec...
#earlymodern #instruments

day 7 of my quarantine deep-dive: no collections today - I& #39;m missing this place and these people sorely. wishing we could be together @CRC_EdUni @StCeciliasHall @EdUniMainLib @EdUniLibraries @lhsaeul @EU_SSSA @TeviotPlace <3

day 8 of my quarantine deep-dive into the @CRC_EdUni collections: time to get back to my first biblio-true-love - #bindings both elaborate and scruffy. This 17th cent German album amicorum from the Laing collection caught my eye for ALL the reasons
https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/search?q==%22La.III.526%22&sort=work_creator_name,work_shelfmark,work_source_page_no,work_title">https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/serv...

day 9 quarantine deep-dive into @CRC_EdUni: this week I still have #bindings on the brain and came across this beautiful detail shot of this 19th cent Scottish clasp work/binding by John Leighton ( @SchoolofDiv B.r.302a-b) 1862/3 Frith illustr. Bible
https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/search?q=work_shelfmark=%22tfCB%2092%201863%22">https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/serv...

day 10 of my quarantine deep-dive into @CRC_EdUni and I& #39;m sticking to bindings: this chonk of a breviary (MS 26, 14th cent Sarum use https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/archival_objects/147432)">https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositor... comes from the John Reid - its late 18th century binding still fits snugly in the hand, but a bit tight in the openings!

day 11 of my quarantine deep-dive into @CRC_EdUni - an interesting combination of cultures in Or. MS 681, a collection of 33 tracts (18th century) in a typical eastern #binding structure but decorated with western-style marbled papers https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/view/search?q=work_shelfmark=%22Or.Ms%20681%22">https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/serv...

day 12 of my quarantine deep-dive into @CRC_EdUni - look at the detail on this lovely 16th century brass clasp and hasp, used to hold the wallet binding together on this 1543 Wittenberg catechism ( @SchoolofDiv tGT 2 1543 C/1) #binding #furniture
https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/servlet/detail/UoEsha~3~3~82501~197580:Greater-Catechism,-Front-cover?qvq=q:work_shelfmark%3D%22tGT2%201543%20C%22&mi=0&trs=1">https://images.is.ed.ac.uk/luna/serv...

day 13 of my @CRC_EdUni deep-dive and I& #39;m off bindings today so that I can show off one of the jaw-droppers of the collection.

Coll-1698 is the last surviving copy of the "Bohemian Protest" against the execution of Jan Hus (1415)

see more detail here: https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositories/2/resources/85819">https://archives.collections.ed.ac.uk/repositor...

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