UofGLibraryFriends

News on events, acquisitions and projects supported by the Friends of the University of Glasgow Library

[UofGLibraryFriends @FriendsofGUL]

🤝Images from FGUL funded Incunabula project
🏷️Sp Coll Ferguson An-y.13 and .35

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🧙‍♀️ Hubble bubble toil and trouble!
📖 These 15th century witchy woodcuts are from works by Ulrich Molitor, about 'De lamiis et phitonicis mulieribus' or 'On witches and female soothsayers', depending on your translation!

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[UofGLibraryFriends @FriendsofGUL]

📚Books are our bread and butter - the purchases we make go towards the research at Glasgow University Library.
🤝We've made many contributions over the years thanks to our generous supporters - here's just a few of our favourites...

[UofGLibraryFriends @FriendsofGUL]

📢 A few tickets are left for this Friends event tomorrow!
📔 The publication of the book is partly 🤝FGUL funded and is based on 🏷️Ms Murray 636.

📅 Thursday 26th October
🕖 7pm-8pm
📍 University of Glasgow Library, Archives & Special Collections - L12 seminar room

[UofGlasgowASC @UofGlasgowASC]

Celebrate the launch of John Moore and John Hume’s new book 'A City Situated for Commerce' by attending this fantastic book launch and talk hosted by @FriendsofGUL on October 26th. Book on Eventbrite to reserve your place: https://t.co/2g6L8eAQWn @uofglibrary

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🍎 As it's #AppleDay here in the UK, here is a woodcut of a monk harvesting fruit in 'The Liber aggregationis' in 1495.

👨‍🌾👩‍🌾 Happy harvesting!

🏷️ Sp Coll Ferguson Ai-a.17 digitised in the 🤝 FGUL funded incanabula project

[University of Glasgow Library @uofglibrary]

There's still time to reserve your place for the launch of 'A City Situated for Commerce', an exciting new book by John Moore and John Hulme. The launch is hosted by @FriendsofGUL.

Join us in the University Library on 26 October: https://t.co/BNZdp4xH1U

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See you all there! 😃👋

[UofGlasgowASC @UofGlasgowASC]

Celebrate the launch of John Moore and John Hume’s new book 'A City Situated for Commerce' by attending this fantastic book launch and talk hosted by @FriendsofGUL on October 26th. Book on Eventbrite to reserve your place: https://t.co/2g6L8eAQWn @uofglibrary

[UofGlasgowASC @UofGlasgowASC]

📢Visiting Research Fellowships @uofglibrary
are now open for applications! We’re delighted to invite scholars from across the globe to apply to work with our unique research collections #UofGLibraryFellows

Apply here: https://t.co/pT7Gt87qhA

🗓️Closing date: 9th Nov 2023

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👀 Take a look at the cover of a programme for Glasgow Musical Festival held in 1860
🎶 What a souvenir for the music lover!

🏷️Sp Coll Farmer Add. q14 is a🤝FGUL funded purchase with funds from the 2022 David Murray Book Collecting Prize.

[UofGLibraryFriends @FriendsofGUL]

What's on your CV? The scribe of these pages was John Robertson, 'writer' c.1640. His jobs might include:
🖋️ scrivener
✒️ law clerk
🖋️ secretary
✒️ governmental or Kirk servant
🖋️ writing master

Insight from 🤝 FGUL funded project 📄 17th C. commonplace books
🏷️ MS GEN 1117

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[UofGLibraryFriends @FriendsofGUL]

📚 If you've enjoyed a weekly dose of books from us, why not consider joining the Friends? It's only £15 a year and will contribute to purchasing some amazing books for the library, or the fantastic projects cataloguing them.

Join today 👉 https://t.co/hxMj0ykDDI

[Gerard Carruthers @GerardCarruthe2]

@FriendsofGUL packed with good stuff, even as it records sad news on front page. Consider joining if you want to engage with our world-class collections @UofGlasgowASC

Pleased to serve on friends committee (in my Scotland top😁)

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🤝FGUL funded purchase

Undine, a water-spirit from folklore is shown in these ethereal illustrations by Arthur Rackham in 1909.
Art and literature intertwine from the title page to the chapter headings.

👉 Support more purchases here: https://t.co/hxMj0ykDDI
🏷️Sp Coll RQ 3198

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📖 The Cruickshank copy of this edition is the only copy listed in the online version of Iberian books - a listing of all books printed in Spain, Portugal and the New World, or in Spanish or Portuguese during the Golden Age (1472-1700).

Find it here👉 : https://t.co/w3WN3WupkY

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📄Project update: Cruickshank collection

Found in a bound-up volume of 7 plays by Lope de Vega is 'El prodigio de Etiopia', c.1670-75.
Considered to be the work of the Madrid printer Lucas Antonio de Bedmar, it turns out to be an extremely rare edition...

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Houses come in all shapes and sizes - but which do you prefer?

🟦 Team Square
🔺 Team Triangle
🛑 Team Octagon

Find your perfect house shape in this🤝FGUL funded purchase
🏷️Sp Coll RF 145-147

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🤝 FGUL funded project: Cataloguing the rare books in William Hunter's library.

📖🦆 The drawings of birds in William Hunter's books are so beautiful a close up was in order! Thanks to our careful cataloguer Dr Michelle Craig for sharing.

🏷️Sp Coll Hunterian L.3.2

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🤔 Can you spot anything frustrating in this picture?
🔍 Clue: if you have a collection of Latin Thesaurus which are numbered in volumes, it's always good to make sure they're in the right order!

🤝FGUL funded purchase
🏷️Sp Coll RF 145-147