Introduction
Aberdeen University’s
Special Libraries and Archives provides a unique and internationally
significant range of printed, archival and other documentary sources
for the benefit of the higher education community and beyond.
The richness of
these collections extends across all the disciplines of the medieval
and early modern university curriculum and across the European world
of learning.
Major
themes and subject areas within the archival and printed collections
include:
Family,
estate, and business papers relating to the North-East of
Scotland
Hebraica
and Judaica
Humanism
and neo-Latin literature
Institutional
history of King’s College, (founded 1495); Marischal College,
1593; University of Aberdeen, 1860)
Jacobitism
Law
(and canon law)
Nineteenth-century
literature
Science
and medicine, from the Renaissance to the twentieth century
Scottish
balladry and folksong
Scottish
Enlightenment philosophy
Theology
from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century
