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• Blogathon: “Biblio-archaelogy”: Digging through Special Collections

  By fionalaird on May 20, 2013 • ( 3 )

  

   By Charlotte Edwards Exploring Fore-Edge Painting in the Hepburn Bequest In February, as part of my Museum Studies MSc, I began a project to investigate several books in the library’s Special Collections that carried a form of decoration about which… Read More ›

• Free Event: John Bell’s ‘Travels from St. Petersburg in Russia’

  By fionalaird on February 26, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  John Bell of Antermony graduated from Glasgow University in 1713 with a medical degree and became a doctor at the court of Peter the Great. He was posted to Russian embassies in Ispahan, Pekin and Derbent and later worked for… Read More ›

• Images Online: 17th Century Emblem Book

  By fionalaird on January 30, 2013 • ( 0 )

  

  New Special Collections Flickr Set A recent enquiry from a researcher has prompted our latest Flickr set of Roemer Visscher’s ‘Drawings for the Sinnepoppen’ (SM 1891A). ‘Drawings for the Sinnepoppen’ is an emblem book (c.1614) that contains 84 drawings, approximately… Read More ›