When it comes time to blog about the latest batch of incunabula sometimes one item stands out from the rest; other times there are simply too many things to choose from! This is such a batch – where to start?… Read More ›
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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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (14/12/12)
Auctions have historically played a central role in the world of incunabula collecting, acting as an important mechanism for re-distributing books to new homes. One of the items featured in the most recent batch added to the project website (a… Read More ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (30/11/12)
Our latest batch of books includes the first volume to be printed in Venice by the celebrated printer, Aldus Manutius: the Greek Grammar of Constantine Lascaris. As part of staff development, at present I am undertaking an online course in Understanding and… Read More ›
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 ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (12/11/12)
This batch includes a book that is unique to the University of Glasgow – the anonymous “lityll treatyse”entitled The art and craft to know well to die. This is the only recorded surviving copy of the edition that was printed… Read More ›
