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MacKay Collection

Formed by the mathematician John Sturgeon Mackay (1843-1914), MA, LLD (St Andrews) FRSE (1882), mathematical master at Edinburgh Academy. It was presented in his memory by his brother Robert Mackay in 1923. It contains in 52 volumes mathematical works of the 16th-19th centuries. All but 7 items are pre-1851, 36 are pre-1801. Strong in Euclid items (19) in various languages - mostly separate editions of the Elementa, including the first Greek edition (Basle, 1533) and the first Arabic edition (Rome, 1594).

Finding aids

A few items are on the on-line catalogue, but most can only be found through the guard book catalogue. The collection has the prefix Mac.