Fifty of the finest artefacts owned by the University of St Andrews are featured in a major new publication launched to coincide with our 600th anniversary celebrations.

The book, ‘Treasures of St Andrews University Library’ highlights the outstanding archive of the library, which includes some 750,000 photographs taken from the days of early photography to the present.

It features some of the collection’s most important and intriguing items including rare books, illuminated manuscripts, photographs and maps, as well as a living archive of the University itself.

The book can be purchased online.

2011 sees the launch of three new publications exploring the history of the University and of St Andrews:

• ‘Ever to Excel’ a history of the University by Norman Reid.

• ‘The Beginning and the End of the World: St Andrews, Scandal and the Birth of Photography’ by Robert Crawford.

• A Biography of Principal Irvine by Julia Melvin.