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Emily Siedeberg.
A photograph of Emily Siedeberg-McKinnon M.B, Ch. B (1873-1968). This image is included in a scrapbook alongside the letter she wrote to the Chancellor of the University of Otago in 1891. The letter was written as a request for entry into the…
Old Law Library.
Two students at work in the Law Library. Legal caricatures can be seen on the wall above. Before shifting to the Hocken Building (now known as the Richardson Building) in 1979, the first Law Library was housed in what is now known as the Staff Club.
Bright College Days and Gaudeamus by the Sextet, Capping Show, 1989.
An extract from the 1989 Capping Show called Peter’s Pantomime. The Capping Sextet sing a song by Tom Lehrer and the traditional anthem that ends every capping show.
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Alphonsus de Spina, Bp. of Orense, d. 1469
Vellum covers (wormed) with fragments of manuscripts at front. Blind stamped with painted red I on front cover. Brass clasps gone.
Augustinus, Aurelius, Saint, Bishop of Hippo
Rebacked; wooden boards with ornate stamped covers. One brass clasp remaining. Small fragment of spine label present.
Aurelius Victor, Sextus
Green morocco with gilt lozenge in middle of both covers. Gilt tooling around the edge of covers. One portion of front cover damaged. Spine title reads: C.Plini/ II/ Epistoi
Bound with: Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius, the younger. [Epistolae].…
Bound with: Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Gaius, the younger. [Epistolae].…
Bartholomaeus Anglicus, 13th cent
Covers detached; spine cracked and broken.
Spine title reads: Barth Angl/ de/ Proprietat-/ rerum.
Spine title reads: Barth Angl/ de/ Proprietat-/ rerum.
Biblia. (German)
n/a
Biblia latina (Vulgate)
Wooden boards covered in blind stamped calf, executed by the English Rood and Hunt binder. For further details, see Isabelle Pingree, 'A Catalogue of the Bindings of the Fifteenth Century Bookbinder called the Rood and Hunt Binder', in The Library,…
Boccaccio, Giovanni
Vellum covers, severely marked. Inner front detached from text block. Spine title reads: Boccaco/ Genealo/ Deor. Gen/ et de/ Montibus/ &c/ 1497.
Saint Bonaventura, ca. 1217-1274
Half-bound calf over buckram boards which are detached. Spine broken, with spine cover partially disintegrated. Spine title reads: 'Bonave'.