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Senior Librarian, Special Collections
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (1/5/13)
Nearly all the books in this batch are from the library of Professor John Ferguson. As we know (or should do – if you have been reading previous incunabula blogs!), Ferguson sought “completeness” in his collecting strategy; as a keen… Read More ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (17/4/13)
Our beautifully preserved copy of the anonymous Fiore novello estratto dalla Bibbia is one of those satisfying books where we can (unusually!) trace the provenance back to the 15th century. Its decorated opening page incorporates the coat of arms of its first owner, the… Read More ›
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The Hunterian Library according to Captain Laskey
You may have visited the Unrivalled Collection exhibition currently on display in the Hunterian Art Gallery. This show celebrates the first general guide to the Hunterian Museum. Compiled by Captain James Laskey (ca. 1760- 1829), it was published two hundred… Read More ›
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Students: join the Sp Coll and Archives blogathon!
Swept away by Special Collections? Awed by Archives? If you have been inspired by our collections, now is your chance to share it with the world! We are looking for current University of Glasgow students to contribute posts on Special… Read More ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (21/3/13)
As an anatomist, physician and man-midwife, Dr William Hunter unsuprisingly collected a lot of material relating to medicine, including a number of incunabula. This batch features several medical books from Hunter’s library, including the Fasciculus Medicinae. One of the most popular of… Read More ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (13/3/13)
An earlier blog featured a spurious colophon attributing an unsigned work to the press of Fust and Schoeffer. I am delighted to say that this batch features the real thing. The Herbarius latinus of 1484 is undisputedly the work of Peter… Read More ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (5/3/13)
It has been a couple of months since we last blogged about the incunabula project. Once more, the library web team has been busy behind the scenes making changes to the GIP website. We hope you like its new, cleaner and updated… Read More ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (21/12/12)
In the early days of printing, niceties such as title-pages were not yet commonplace and this can result in one of the challenges of cataloguing incunabula – first of all, identify your book! Of course, incunables have been so well… Read More ›
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Thankyou for the feedback!
You may remember being asked to fill out a survey back at the end of October if you visited Special Collections and/or Archives Services. Between our two reading rooms, we were delighted to receive 75 completed forms providing us with… Read More ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (20/11/12)
As the incunabula period progressed, printers began to take advantage of print technology in order to mass produce texts in their entirety, slowly dropping the requirement for scribes to “finish off ” the books. In including illustrations, meanwhile, it became increasingly… Read More ›
