As an anatomist, physician and man-midwife, Dr William Hunter unsuprisingly collected a lot of material relating to medicine, including a number of incunabula. This batch features several medical books from Hunter’s library, including the Fasciculus Medicinae. One of the most popular of… Read More ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (13/3/13)
An earlier blog featured a spurious colophon attributing an unsigned work to the press of Fust and Schoeffer. I am delighted to say that this batch features the real thing. The Herbarius latinus of 1484 is undisputedly the work of Peter… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (2/12/11)
Here are the links to the latest ten books added to the project website: Livius, Titus: Historiae Romanae decades Venice: Bartholomaeus de Zanis, 20 June 1498 Thomas à Kempis: Imitatio Christi Augsburg: Erhard Ratdolt, 1488 Thomas à Kempis: Imitatio Christi… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project Update (16/9/11)
These are the latest ten books to be fully described and indexed on the project website: Miracles of Our Lady Westminster: Wynkyn de Worde, [ca. 1496] Justinianus: Institutiones (with the Glossa ordinaria of Accursius) Basel: Michael Wenssler, 31 May 1476… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (13/6/11)
Details of another ten books are now available on the project website: Turrecremata, Johannes de: Expositio super toto psalterio Strassburg: [Printer of the 1481 'Legenda Aurea'], 23 Apr. 1482 Scopesus, Bartholomaeus: De arte punctuandi dialogus [Paris]:Antoine Denidel, [between 1498 and… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (21/3/11)
Another ten book descriptions have been added to the Glasgow incunabula project website: Meder, Johannes: Quadragesimale de filio prodigo Basel: Michael Furter, 1495 Brant, Sebastian: [Das Narrenschiff. Latin] [Lyons]: Jacobus Sacon, 28 June ’1488′ [i.e. 1498] Petrarca, Francesco: Trionfi; Canzoniere… Read More ›