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| Name of Library: |
Queen Mother Library, University of Aberdeen |
| Address: |
Meston Walk, Old Aberdeen, AB24 3UE |
| Faculty Information Consultant |
| Purpose and main user community of the library |
| Apply for access at the door on the day. Proof of identity and address required. |
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M -Th 09.00-22.00. Fr
09.00-20.00. Sa 09.00-22.00. Su 13.00-22.00 |
| Full disabled facilities and access |
| Personal non-member loans on request in writing to the librarian, paying postage both ways |
| Periodicals - Back Issues |
| Hebrew, world religions, New Testament, church history, practical theology, systematic |
| theology, historical texts of Christian theology and biblical texts and commentaries, from 15th |
| Bibliotheck of Kirkwall: established 1684 as one of the earliest public libraries in Scotland, now |
| c. 500 items, C16-19, ranging through Patristics, the Reformers and Covenanting pamphlets. |
| Biesenthal Collection: rabbinics, ca. 2,000 vols. Of which c. 700 in Hebrew., representing a |
| comprehensive selection of all that was published in Hebrew practically from the time of the |
| invention of printing to c. 1870. |
| Diocesan Library: Scottish Episcopal Church Diocese of Aberdeen and Orkney older library |
| deposited in 1926; mainly C18-19 theological material, strong in liturgical and other material |
| relating to the Scottish Episcopal Church. |
| London Missionary Society, Edinburgh Branch Library: missiology and publications for, by and |
| about missionaries world-wide. |
| MacBean Collection of Jacobite material: including related late C17th to mid C18th sermons. |
| Society of Friends Aberdeen Meeting Library. |
| Society of Friends Kinmuck (Aberdeenshire) Meeting Library: mainly Quaker literature C18-19. |
| Taylor Psalmody Collection: c. 1,200 vols., complete versions of the Psalms, partial versions |
| and books relating to metrical versions of the Psalms or to hymnology generally. |
| Theological Library: c. 3,000 vols., mainly C17-19, including Bibles or Testaments in many |
| Thomson Herald King Collections of Pamphlets: c. 1,000 vols., including a high proportion of |
| theological material of C17-19, including Covenanting and Sabbatarian material, polemics and |
| C10-16 mss, including C.15 illuminated Hebrew Bible, Books of Hours, Psalter - see URL |
| http://www.abdn.ac.uk/library/introduction.html.Bell, Patrick, Rev, Canada, Papers 1833-37; |
| Cargill, David (1809-43), missionary, Papers 1826-81; Caseby, Alexander (b.1898), |
| missionary, Papers 1908-29; Cooper, James, Very Rev, Aberdeen, Broughty Ferry, Glasgow, |
| Papers 1867-1922; Craven, James B. (1850-1924), Archdeacon, Collections of papers relating |
| to the Episcopal Church in Caithness and Orkney; Donald, Francis Cantlie (1882-1974), |
| minister of religion; Eeles, Francis C. (1876-1954), ecclesiologist; Fullarton, John (d.1761), |
| divine, Papers 1682-1755; Gordon, James, Rev., Papers 1692-1710; Hay, Malcolm V., of |
| Seaton (1881-1962), historian; Laws, Robert (1851-1934), missionary; Livingstone, John |
| (1603-72), divine, Papers 1666; Mitchell, William, Rev., Papers 1717; Petrie, Arthur (1730-37), |
| Bishop of Moray, Ross and Caithness; Row, John (1598-1672), scholar and divine; Wilkinson, |
| Thomas, Quaker minister, Highlands, transcript, papers 1785-1807; 22 collections of |
| sermons, C17-18 centuries, including various Presbyterian and Cameronian preachers |
| 1662-1670; Thomas Boston (1677-1732), James Fisher (1697-1775), John Brown (1722-87) |
| printed works, including c. 50 incunabula; Covenanting literature; Rabbinics C17-19 |
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