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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (29/5/2012)
Another ten books are now fully described and indexed on the project website: Heimericus de Campo: Reparationes librorum totius philosophiae naturalis secundum processum Albertistarum et Thomistarum Cologne: Ulrich Zel, 15 Nov. 1494 Legenda S. Annae Leipzig: Melchior Lotter, 16 Sept. 1498 Bible. N.T. Epistolae. Latin Paris: [Georg Wolf], 28 Feb. 1491/92 [two copies] Vegetius, Flavius … Continue reading
Friends and Fossils
This afternoon I was delighted to attend a reception at the Principal’s Lodging to mark the presentation of two books to the Library. The books have been purchased for Special Collections using a generous gift made by Lady Joan Williams via the Friends of Glasgow University Library. Lady Williams (herself a Friend of the Library) … Continue reading
Currently on exhibition (at home and away)
Our annotated first edition of Copernicus’ groundbreaking text On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres (Nuremberg: 1543) is currently on display at a fascinating exhibition at the Museum of the History of Science in Oxford. The Renaissance in Astronomy celebrates books, globes and instruments of the 16th century, and marks the 500th anniversary of the … Continue reading
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (15/5/12)
The latest ten records to be fully described and indexed on the project website are: Nider, Johannes: Sermones de tempore et de sanctis cum quadragesimali Speyer: Peter Drach, 13 Nov. 1479 Solinus, Gaius Julius: Polyhistor, sive De mirabilibus mundi [Paris]: Au Soufflet Vert (Louis Symonel et Socii), [ca. 1475] Benedictus de Nursia: De conservatione sanitatis … Continue reading
Laing film artist in running for Turner Prize
Glasgow-based artist Luke Fowler has been nominated for this year’s Turner Prize for his art film All Divided Selves (2011), the third in a trilogy of films which explore the life of R.D. Laing. Luke has previously worked with the R.D. Laing collection held here in Special Collections, which was catalogued with funding from the … Continue reading
Back to school for Special Collections
As well as being available to researchers, items from our collections are also in demand for exhibitions. Currently, pamphlets from the Bissett Collection are on show at Scotland Street School Museum in The Glasgow Schools, part of the Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art. Artist Ruth Ewan has produced poster works and a documentary on … Continue reading
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (19/4/12)
The latest ten books to be fully indexed on the project website are: Regiomontanus, Johannes: Kalendarium Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 9 Aug. 1482 Johannes de Sacro Bosco: Sphaera mundi Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 6 July 1482 Alchabitius: Libellus isagogicus Venice: Erhard Ratdolt, 16 Jan. 1482 Abraham ibn Ezra: De luminaribus et diebus criticis [Padua: Matthaeus Cerdonis], 7 … Continue reading
Creating a ‘Cabinet of Curiosities’
Emanuel Mendes da Costa (1717-1791) was a prominent naturalist who traded in natural history objects such as fossils, corals and shells but who is little remarked upon within the secondary sources of this field today. Da Costa’s contribution to science, art and to the collecting habits of the 18th Century has gone largely unnoticed, but … Continue reading
Workshop on the Medieval Bible in Scotland: all welcome
Special Collections is hosting a workshop on the Medieval Bible in Scotland on Friday 20th April at 2pm in the Henry Heaney seminar room (University of Glasgow Library: level 12). All welcome to attend! The workshop will be presented by Dr Eyal Poleg (Centre for the History of the Book, University of Edinburgh) who is … Continue reading
A bit of balladeering
There are still place available for the colloquium we are holding on Thursday 12th on our Euing collection of English broadside ballads. So if you would like to find out about the Bloody Butcher and more, please come along for some carousing (well, there will be singing, and biscuits …!) As well as various talks … Continue reading
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