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 ›
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Glasgow Incunabula Project update (9/2/16)
As reported in our last project update, all of the University’s 1060 incunabula are now described and fully indexed and accessible on the GiP website. While this is a major achievement, the work on Glasgow’s incunabula continues apace. Jack Baldwin,… Read More ›
“Sweet bit of binding” – Cataloguing Puzzles
Explaining what rare book cataloguing entails can be tricky at times, but in the simplest terms you are carrying out two tasks:- Fully describing an item in order to make it discoverable for researchers, and… Solving puzzles There are other tasks… Read More ›
James Boswell and the Auchinleck House library
I never fail to be amazed at the astonishing richness of the Library’s holdings in Special Collections and at the surprising things that turn up! A few years ago, a researcher contacted us about a project he was working on,… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (30/9/13)
An edition of Johannes de Sacro Bosco’s astronomical treatise Sphaera Mundi features in this batch. This popular work was reprinted on numerous occasions in the 15th century (we have four other editions listed so far), and – as befits a… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (5/3/13)
It has been a couple of months since we last blogged about the incunabula project. Once more, the library web team has been busy behind the scenes making changes to the GIP website. We hope you like its new, cleaner and updated… Read More ›
Special Collections enriched by Wealth of Nations
We are delighted to report an exciting new arrival in Special Collections – a beautiful copy of the first edition of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations recently gifted by alumnus Stuart Leckie, OBE. The Wealth of Nations hardly needs introduction… Read More ›
The property of an embezzling Elizabethan Shakespeare fan?
Richard Stonley (1519 or 20-1600) boasts an interesting literary claim to fame: his acquisition of a newly printed copy of Venus and Adonis on 12th June 1593 makes him the earliest known purchaser of any Shakespeare work. We are fortunate… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula project update (2/11/12)
It may have been June since we last blogged about the Glasgow Incunabula Project, but just in case you think we have been kicking our heels on some kind of extended holiday, I assure you that work “behind the scenes”… Read More ›
Glasgow Incunabula Project update (15/11/11)
Another ten books are now fully described and indexed on the project website: Dialogus creaturarum moralisatus Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 11 Dec. 1486. Andreae, Antonius: Quaestiones super XII libros Metaphysicae Aristotelis Venice: Bonetus Locatellus, for Octavianus Scotus, 23 Aug. 1487 Apuleius… Read More ›