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 ›
Charles Darwin, The expression of the emotions in man and animals, London: 1872, Sp Coll Dougan 3 This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with fresh… Read More ›
Le Roman de la Rose, Paris: c.1505 [Hunterian Bw.3.6] This series revisits our Book of the Month archive to highlight some of our favourite articles and explore the ASC collections they describe with fresh eyes. This article was originally published on February 2000 by… Read More ›
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 ›
As UofGASC begin to welcome a new cohort of placement students, it seems a fitting opportunity to publish the work of one of last year’s Museum Studies students. Guest blog post by Antonios Chaliakopoulos, Museum Studies placement student I completed… Read More ›
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 ›
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 ›
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 ›
Blog post by Becca Gauldie, an M.Sc Art History (Collecting and Provenance Studies in an International Context) student, on placement in Archives and Special Collections. Every second-hand book has a provenance, but most are unremarkable and their previous ownership immediately… Read More ›
Blog post by Jessica Watson, an MA Honours History of Art student on placement in Special Collections. I was selected to undertake an eight-week long placement with the Special Collections department of the University library as part of my art… Read More ›
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