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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Cooking up a story – new Level 12 display
Our current display on Level 12 includes a 400-hundred year old manuscript on alchemy, a 19th century cookbook and a writer’s notebook from the 1960s. What links them is that they all contain recipes (of sorts). Antonio Neri’s ‘di Alchimia’… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (6/9/11)
Ten more books are now described on the project website: Callimachus: Hymni [Greek] [Florence: Laurentius (Francisci) de Alopa, Venetus, ca. 1496] Stoeffler, Johannes and Pflaum, Jacob: Almanach nova in annos 1499-1531 Ulm: Johann Reger, 13 Feb. 1499 Borro, Gasparino: Trionfi,… Read More ›
The Damned Art in Special Collections – a history of witches and witchcraft in print and image
To most of us in this day and age, the words ‘witch’ or ‘witchcraft’ will probably conjure images of fancy-dress Halloween parties or ‘straight-to-DVD’ horror films but for centuries many Europeans firmly believed in, and feared, the malign presence of… Read More ›
Conjuring Curiosities and Manuals of Magic
The collection which most intrigued me when I first arrived for my placement as a Graduate Trainee in Special Collections was definitely the Ferguson collection. John Ferguson (1838-1916) was Regius Professor of Chemistry at the University of Glasgow from 1874-1915;… Read More ›
