University of Aberdeen Historic Collections: Special Libraries and Archives
Special Libraries and Archives
King's College
Aberdeen
Aberdeenshire
AB24 3SW
Scotland
Website
Telephone
Reading Room
01224 272598
Senior Curator (Archives)
01224 272929
Head of Library Services
01224 272928
Manager, Historic Collections
01224 272599
Fax
Office Fax
01224 273891
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.
Venue Type:
Library, Archive
Additional info
Access to Special Libraries:
As the Reading Room is on the first floor, we regret that disabled access is restricted. Visitors who wish to consult material should contact the Reading Room staff in advance to arrange facilities.
Collection details
Archives, Law and Order, Literature, Medicine, Music, Natural Sciences, Religion, Science and Technology, Social History, World Cultures
Key artists and exhibits
- 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
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