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Special Collections Project Manager: 'William Hunter's Library: A Transcription of the Early Catalogues'.

• William Hunter’s Library: The End is the Beginning

  By Karen Baston on December 21, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Thank you! Today is my last working day as Project Manager for ‘William Hunter’s Library: A Transcription of the Early Catalogues’. It has been a personally rewarding year in which I’ve worked with a fantastic team at the University of… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Library: Latin Scientific Poetry

  By Karen Baston on November 17, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  Blog post by Dr David McOmish, Project Assistant, William Hunter’s Library: A Transcription of the Early Catalogues. David will be speaking on ‘Teaching the Scientific Revolution in verse: when poetry ruled the cosmos’ at the Wellcome Library at a workshop… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Library: Provenance

  By Karen Baston on November 7, 2017 • ( 0 )

  

  Blog post by Michelle Craig, Project Assistant, William Hunter’s Library: A Transcription of the Early Catalogues and Leverhulme PhD Candidate Now the Hunterian Transcription project is ending, we can begin to take stock of the project’s goals and outcomes. The… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Library: Plague, Pestilence, and the Physician

  By Karen Baston on October 31, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  Blog post by Dr Jade Scott, Project Assistant, William Hunter’s Library: A Transcription of the Early Catalogues. When we think of Plague, we tend to imagine the Black Death of the fourteenth-century, which had such catastrophic effects on the population… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Library: the Shapes of Books

  By Karen Baston on October 9, 2017 • ( 4 )

  

  In this blog post, we will be looking at the variety of formats of Hunter’s printed books, and uncover the technical terms, which are commonly used to describe the books’ formats. 

• William Hunter’s Library: Auctions and Americana

  By Karen Baston on August 23, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Blog post by Ellie King, MSc Museum Studies Placement Student, William Hunter’s Library: A Transcription of the Early Catalogues. Ellie worked on the Hunter Library Project from May to July 2017 to help with background research and book history enquiries,… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Library: who were the Trustees?

  By Karen Baston on August 18, 2017 • ( 3 )

  

  Hunter’s relationship with his brother and fellow anatomist John was famously strained so it is not surprising that John was not a trustee for Hunter’s estate. Hunter’s nephew, Matthew Baillie, along with Hunter’s business partner William Cruikshank, were the main… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Library: the Ks

  By Karen Baston on July 31, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  With 87 entries, the ‘K’ section of William Hunter’s Trustees Catalogue (MR 3 as it is now) forms a relatively small proportion of the whole. But, as with the other sections of the catalogue, some themes and books emerge that… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Library: the Is and the Js

  By Karen Baston on July 24, 2017 • ( 2 )

  

  As all viewers of ‘Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade’ know, there is no ‘J’ in the Latin alphabet. In Hunter’s Trustees’ catalogue (and in the earlier catalogues compiled in Hunter’s lifetime), there is no separate section in MR 3… Read More ›

• William Hunter’s Library: the Hs

  By Karen Baston on July 4, 2017 • ( 1 )

  

  H is for … The ‘H’ section alone could provide a snapshot for the books found in Hunter’s library as a whole. Medical works both ancient and modern are a theme throughout with Hippocrates, William Harvey, Albrecht von Haller, and… Read More ›