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Senior Library Assistant, Special Collections

• The Foulis Brothers Book Receipts Project: how much can an invoice tell us?

  By Sam Gilchrist on August 13, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Guest blog by Belén Hernáez Martín, an Art History student studying Collecting & Provenance in the University of Glasgow My online placement within the Archives and Special Collections consisted in using eighteenth-century invoices to research the books sold by Robert… Read More ›

• The Italian Renaissance Bible of the Fregosi family: Part II

  By Sam Gilchrist on July 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  This blog continues from part I, exploring MS Gen 1060 with Polina Govorukhina, MLitt Art History student from the University of Glasgow. Folio 4r: Genesis An interesting feature within the illustrative plan of the folio that represents stories from Genesis… Read More ›

• The Italian Renaissance Bible of the Fregosi family: Part I

  By Sam Gilchrist on July 2, 2021 • ( 0 )

  

  Guest blog by Polina Govorukhina, an MLitt Art History student in the University of Glasgow Hello, I am Polina Govorukhina, an MLitt Art History student from the University of Glasgow. I specialize in the art of the Renaissance. As a… Read More ›

• Alchemy at Glasgow: John Ferguson and his ‘Crowning of Nature’ Manuscripts

  By Sam Gilchrist on September 8, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  Guest blog by Dr Anke Timmermann, University of Glasgow Library Fellow in 2019.[1] Health, wealth, and happiness were as desirable in the medieval and early modern period as they are today. However, five hundred years ago it was not science… Read More ›

• 150 years of Gilmorehill: designing the new campus

  By Sam Gilchrist on May 6, 2020 • ( 0 )

  

  by Andrew Mackay, History of Art placement student in Archives and Special Collections.  For centuries, the University of Glasgow had been located on the High Street of Glasgow. However, come the 1800s it became clear that a change was necessary…. Read More ›

• ASC Rewind: Writings on the Calendar by the Venerable Bede

  By Sam Gilchrist on April 9, 2020 • ( 1 )

  

  This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with new eyes. This article was originally published on January 2001 by Julie Gardham and the full… Read More ›

• International Women’s Day 2020

  By Sam Gilchrist on March 6, 2020 • ( 2 )

  

  This International Women’s Day the University of Glasgow is celebrating women, and their roles and achievements in the University, by recreating a 19th century image of University professors and staff. The image is dramatically titled ‘The Exodus from the Old… Read More ›

• The David Murray Book Collecting Prize 2019-20

  By Sam Gilchrist on October 28, 2019 • ( 0 )

  

  The David Murray Book Collecting Prize is now open to applications from all currently registered University of Glasgow students. Read on to find out more about how to enter and your chance to win £500! The purpose of the prize… Read More ›

• The David Murray Book Collecting Prize 2018

  By Sam Gilchrist on October 1, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  The David Murray Book Collecting Prize is now open to submissions from all current University of Glasgow students with an interest in collecting. This can consist of printed books, printed ephemera, manuscripts, photographic material, or a combination of these, with… Read More ›

• Dye-versity and #PerkinPatterns – an update!

  By Sam Gilchrist on June 28, 2018 • ( 0 )

  

  Guest blog by Dr Anita Quye, CChem MRSC, Senior Lecturer in Conservation Science and Head of History of Art, University of Glasgow. One year ago this month we published a guest blog on Anita’s Dye-versity project and put out a… Read More ›