News and Updates

News and Updates

Professor Andrew Pettegree

Pitts to host Professor Andrew Pettegree for Kessler Table Talk

Mar 27, 2024

Professor Andrew Pettegree will lecture on “Book History’s New Frontier and the Perils of Big Data” Pitts Theology Library is excited to welcome Professor Andrew Pettegree, of the University of St. Andrews, to give the Spring “Table Talk” keynote lecture, “Book History’s New Frontier and the Perils of Big Data,” on…

Psalms set to tunes in 1567 BIBL E

An early metrical Psalter with a special history

Mar 25, 2024

1567 BIBL E The vvhole Psalter translated into English metre, which contayneth an hundreth and fifty Psalmes. (London: John Day, 1567). Metrical Psalters, which are books of the Psalms recomposed to fit a vernacular meter, became very popular following the Protestant Reformation and the spread of German, English, and…

Eerdmans Bible Commentaries

Pitts acquires a large collection of biblical commentaries as ebooks

Mar 18, 2024

Pitts Theology Library has just purchased online access to a collection of dozens of biblical commentaries from Eerdmans. This acquisition brings valuable resources that have long been appreciated in the library’s print collection to an online audience. The collection includes ebooks curated for New Testament and Old Testament research,…

Pitts acquires a Franciscan manual for late medieval preachers

Pitts acquires a Franciscan manual for late medieval preachers

Mar 4, 2024

Pitts recently added to its growing collection of incunables (books printed before 1501) a 1479 lexical manual for preachers and clergy. The Latin book, titled Mammotrectus super Bibliam (“Nourisher on the Bible”), printed by Nicolas Jensen in Venice, contains etymological and grammatical explanations of words found in the Bible,…