At the end of 2016, the Incunabula website was updated to include 175 images from 56 different texts, primarily housed at the Mitchell Library but including some others at Kelvingrove Museum and the Burrell Collection. This now completes the… Read More ›
Guest blog post by Adam Flynn, Renaissance Art postgraduate work placement student. A brief examination of almost any of the incunabula contained within Glasgow University’s Special Collections quickly reveals the book as a cultural artefact; its physical condition details the… Read More ›
![Death on a donkey woodcut (page n8v) in Brant, Sebastian: Das Narrenschiff [Latin]. 1498. Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.3.9.](https://universityofglasgowlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/bw-3-9.jpg?w=120&h=120&crop=1)
Guest blogpost by Olivia Moloney, joint junior honours student in History and History of Art on placement in Special Collections. Olivia has been working to improve the descriptive tagging of our Glasgow Incunabula Project images on image sharing site, Flickr…. Read More ›
![Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus. [Geneva]: Jean Belot, 1500. Illustration at beginning of book (a1v). Sp Coll S. M. 1986.](https://universityofglasgowlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2016/04/sm1986.jpg?w=120&h=120&crop=1)
Guest blogpost by Struan Watson, a junior honours History of Art student on placement in Special Collections. Struan has been working to improve the descriptive tagging of our Glasgow Incunabula Project images on image sharing site, Flickr. The invention… Read More ›
From the start it has been our intention to make GIP a truly ‘Glasgow’ project and our project researcher Jack Baldwin has been visiting other city institutions in the past year to examine and describe all the fifteenth century books… Read More ›
Guest blog post by Adam Flynn, Renaissance Art postgraduate work placement student. Heraldry is a fascinating and elaborate system by which coats of arms are devised and deciphered. My own research into the identification of coats of arms included within… Read More ›
As reported in our last project update, all of the University’s 1060 incunabula are now described and fully indexed and accessible on the GiP website. While this is a major achievement, the work on Glasgow’s incunabula continues apace. Jack Baldwin,… Read More ›
For the end of 2015 we have reached a landmark point in the Glasgow Incunabula Project: all 1060 books belonging to the University of Glasgow have now been fully catalogued and are available on the project website. Our last batch… Read More ›
Guest blog by Michelle Craig, who is currently researching classical incunabula in Special Collections for an MLitt (Res). During the first decades of printing most editions of classical Greek authors were reproduced in Latin translation. Although Greek type had first… Read More ›
This latest batch of incunabula is stuffed with so many good things that I hardly know where to begin. So, skipping over another mammoth Bible printed for Anton Koberger, let us first turn our attention to a couple of early… Read More ›
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