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 ›
Tag Archive for ‘Provenance’
Special Collections enriched by Wealth of Nations
We are delighted to report an exciting new arrival in Special Collections – a beautiful copy of the first edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations recently gifted by alumnus Stuart Leckie, OBE. The Wealth of Nations hardly needs introduction… Read More ›
![Woodcut of Hippocrates (presumably raised from the dead!) talking with Avicenna. From Hippocrates: Prognostics [English] [ca. 1545] (Sp Coll Hunterian Au.4.11e)](http://universityofglasgowlibrary.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/stonley_hippo_avi.jpg?w=120&h=120&crop=1)
The property of an embezzling Elizabethan Shakespeare fan?
Richard Stonley (1519 or 20-1600) boasts an interesting literary claim to fame: his acquisition of a newly printed copy of Venus and Adonis on 12th June 1593 makes him the earliest known purchaser of any Shakespeare work. We are fortunate… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula project update (2/11/12)
It may have been June since we last blogged about the Glasgow Incunabula Project, but just in case you think we have been kicking our heels on some kind of extended holiday, I assure you that work “behind the scenes”… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (15/11/11)
Another ten books are now fully described and indexed on the project website: Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 11 Dec. 1486. Andreae, Antonius: Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 23 Aug. 1487 Apuleius… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (11/8/11)
Descriptions of another ten books are now available on the project website: Quintilianus, Marcus Fabius: Institutiones oratoriae Venice: Peregrinus de Pasqualibus, Bononiensis, 18 Aug. 1494 Thomas Aquinas: Super quarto libro Sententiarum Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 23 May 1497… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (4/8/11)
Details of ten more books are now accessible via the project website: Adam, Magister: Summula sacramentorum Raymundi de Pennaforte metrificata Delft: [Christiaen Snellaert or Hendrik Eckert, van Homberch], 1497 Michael Scotus: Liber physiognomiae [Lyons: Nicolaus Philippi and Marcus Reinhart, ca…. Read More ›
Provenance – New virtual exhibition
A new virtual exhibition about provenance, or the ownership history of books, has been added to the Special Collections Department website today. As we have highlighted in previous blog entries, many of the books now in the department have fascinating… Read More ›
Special Collections in Wonderland
Many of the books in Special Collections have fascinating ownership histories, as we highlight in our current foyer display. But, curiouser and curiouser, no sooner have we announced our latest display, than we’ve identified another work with an interesting provenance!… Read More ›
