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• David Murray Book Collecting prize 2022: the winners!

  By Julie Gardham on May 9, 2022 • ( 0 )

  

  Many thanks to everyone who entered the 2022 competition. It was great fun reading your entries and each student this year had a passionate story to tell about their personal collecting journey. From a highly competitive field, we invited four… Read More ›

• David Murray Book Collecting prize 2020: the winners!

  By Julie Gardham on June 22, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  The entries came in, the jury deliberated, and we are now delighted to reveal the winners of our 2019-20 David Murray book collecting prize. The judging panel had a very difficult task in awarding the prize this year. Not only… Read More ›

• David Murray Book Collecting prize 2019: the winner!

  By Julie Gardham on April 30, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  We are delighted to announce that the winner of our 2018-19 David Murray book collecting prize is Information Studies student Helen Whittle. Helen writes: My book collection entitled ‘Seeing Beyond the Shadows: A History of Western Philosophy Book Collection’ started… Read More ›

• Exposing the Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles to a modern audience

  By Julie Gardham on April 25, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  A guest blog post by Katie Lombardo, MLitt Renaissance Art History This semester, I had the opportunity to take on a work placement in the University of Glasgow’s Special Collections. Since January, I’ve been researching and cataloguing a 15th century… Read More ›

• Lister Library Collection

  By Julie Gardham on February 8, 2019 • ( 1 )

  

  We have recently catalogued a small collection of some seventy books from the library of the surgeon Sir Joseph Lister (1827-1912), famous for his pioneering work in antiseptic surgery. Lister accumulated a large library of ca. 2,500 books in his… Read More ›

• Is your sign Aries? If so, see your doctor ASAP!

  By Julie Gardham on June 6, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  A guest blog post by Irene Diego-Rodríguez, University of Alcalá [1] During the Middle Ages, it was assumed that man was a microcosm of the universe and, as a result, medieval society merged the art of Astrology with a wide… Read More ›

• Illuminated Faces: Author Portraits in the Hunterian Library (Part Two)

  By Julie Gardham on May 29, 2018 • ( 1 )

  

  A guest blog post by Shauna Haynes, Renaissance Art MLitt work placement student Following on from my initial exploration of author portraits in the Hunterian Library, my second blog focuses on some other features of the Quintus Curtius: History of… Read More ›

• Illuminated Faces: Author Portraits in the Hunterian Library

  By Julie Gardham on April 13, 2018 • ( 2 )

  

  A guest blog post by Shauna Haynes, Renaissance Art MLitt work placement student My work placement in Special Collections this term focused on a study of decorated initials in illuminated manuscripts and incunabula in the Hunterian Library. This study culminates… Read More ›

• Book Collecting Congratulations

  By Julie Gardham on July 14, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  We are delighted to announce that the winner of the inaugural David Murray Book Collecting Prize is Edward Cole. Edward (who has just completed a PhD focusing on Glasgow Museum’s collections of birds’ eggs) submitted an entry describing his collection… Read More ›

• The Humanist North

  By Julie Gardham on March 24, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Blog post by Wiktoria Muryn, MLitt Renaissance Art History student on placement in Special Collections. There are many historical myths about the medieval period. We have all heard stories of the strictly devout society, despotic rulers and the daily grime… Read More ›