It was great to spend a couple of very hot and sunny days in Leicester last week attending the stimulating conference Reading copy specific features: producers, readers & owners of incunabula, superbly organised by Takako Kato of De Montfort University…. Read More ›
Special Collections
Glasgow Incunabula Project and Exhibition update (23/6/15)
Ingenious Impressions has now closed (all good things must come to an end …). It has been great fun and a huge success, so thanks to everyone who visited and thanks also for sharing all your responses and feedback. It… Read More ›
Impressions from a Museum Studies Student
Blog post by Catherine O’Neill. Katie was on a placement in Special Collections as part of her postgraduate Museum Studies course between January and April this year. Her focus was to assist and contribute towards the public programme of the… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project and Exhibition update (8/6/15)
In my last blog I promised more Bibles and more books from the press of Anton Koberger. In this batch we find the two happily married in duplicate copies of another Latin Nuremberg Bible, printed by Koberger in 1475. Both… Read More ›
“The Moving Finger writes…” Edward FitzGerald and the Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám.
“Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: And Lo! The Hunter of the East has caught The Sultan’s Turret in a Noose of Light” (First edition: 1859) These are… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project and Exhibition update (19/5/15)
The first book that greets you on arrival at the Ingenious Impressions exhibition is our stunning copy of the Bible printed by Anton Koberger in 1483. This was the first Bible to be printed in Nuremberg, and ours is a… Read More ›
An artistic reinterpretation of William Hunter
Special collections are traditionally used for University teaching and research, but in reality our clientele is a diverse lot. In recent years in particular, our books, manuscripts and archives have provided inspiration for a variety of creative endeavours. We have… Read More ›
Your Theatre History: Popular Political Theatre in Glasgow
On Tuesday 12 May the Scottish Theatre Archive and the Mitchell Library, Glasgow present a day celebrating Glasgow’s political theatre heritage. Join special guests Ida Schuster, Linda Mackenney and Dave Anderson to discover Glasgow’s rich political theatre heritage from the… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project and exhibition update (5/5/15)
We are looking forward to welcoming back Martin Andrews and Alan May later this week to rerun their printing demonstrations. These sessions are now fully booked! If you have secured a place, please note that they begin in the Henry… Read More ›
Mapping in the Fifteenth Century
A guest incunabula blog post by Patrick J. Murray Patrick J. Murray is a researcher at the University of Glasgow in the College of Arts. He has just completed a PhD on early modern cartography. The ongoing work by the… Read More ›