R V Pringle - Author of Web pages on

Juan Bautista Diamante
George Washington Wilson
St Andrews University Library
Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
Scores and recordings at the North East of Scotland Music School
Aberdeen Business Adverts in 1908

Reg Pringle, MA MLitt (Edin.) DipComp (AbCol.) completed his master's degree in Hispanic Literature in 1966 and subsequently held posts at the Universities of St Andrews (Associate Librarian, 1981-88) and Aberdeen (University Librarian, 1988-1996).   From 1990-1995 he was Project Director of Grampian Information (now defunct).   He later held posts as Adult Education Assistant / Community Education Worker in Aberdeenshire (1997-1998), and Lecturer in Office Technology / Software Engineering at what was then Aberdeen College (1999-2004).   He was until 2023 an Assistant to the Administrator at the North East of Scotland Music School in Aberdeen and is now Librarian and Honorary Fellow there.

• Juan Bautista Diamante (1625? - 1687)
• New Light on Juan Bautista Diamante (Dec 2007)
• Documentos relativos a la familia de Juan Bautista Diamante (Dec 2007)
• Who was María 'de Castro' Diamante? (Feb 2008)
• A checklist of plays by or atttributed to Juan Bautista Diamante (Jan 2008)
• La Magdalena de Roma an edited version based on the 1713 Zaragoza MS. (July 2007)

• George Washington Wilson (1823 - 1893)
• The George Washington Wilson Photographic Archive: a Postscript (Mar 2008)
• The 1904 Catalogue of Landscape and Architectural Views in Scotland: a reordered version with links to viewable images held mainly by the University of Aberdeen (Aug 2022 -->)
• Photographs of Gibraltar, South of Spain and Morocco from the 1908(?) Catalogue (Nov 2022)

• St Andrews University Library
• A note on the early history of St Andrews University Library (Jan 2009)
• Sources for Library History
1. 1.  A revised transcript of the 'Foundation List' of 1612-13 (rev. Dec 2008)
2. 2.  An edited transcript of the 'Lentron' Catalogue of c. 1644 (Jan 2009)
3. 3.  An edited transcript of the '1687' Catalogue (rev. Dec 2008)
• Notes on the Scot Collection in St Andrews University Library (rev. July 2011)
1. An early humanity class library: the gift of Sir John Scot and friends to St Leonard's College (1620)
2. Annotated transcript of the subscription list begun under Scot's direction in the summer of 1620
3. A note on the so-called 'Commonplace Book of Sir John Scot'
4. ''A catologue of books belonging to the Profession of Humanity in St. Leon. Coll. receaved from Mr. Colin Vilant, 1697''

• Music in Scottish Castles and Country Houses
• A collaborative NTS-related project with Dr Roger Williams (March 2020 => )
• • Music and Musicians at Brodie Castle
  • Music at Crathes Castle
  • Music at Drum Castle
  • Music at Castle Fraser
  • Forbes Leith Collection at Fyvie
  • Music at Leith Hall
  • Music at Newhailes

• Books, scores and recordings at the North East of Scotland Music School
• • Musical scores listed by Composer / Arranger, Editor / Compiler, Songwriter / Librettist, Voice Type, Instrument, Title of Work and Language
  • Classical recordings listed by Composer, Performer, Orchestra, Ensemble and Track Title
  • Books about music listed by Author, Title and Topic
  • The RH Allen collection of Instrumental Scores listed by Composer, Title, Instrument and Shelfmark

• Aberdeen Businesses in 1908
• Showing their support for music through through advertising.