News on events, acquisitions and projects supported by the Friends of the University of Glasgow Library
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31 Oct 2023
🧙♀️ 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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31 Oct 2023
🤝Images from FGUL funded Incunabula project
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28 Oct 2023
📚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...
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28 Oct 2023
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25 Oct 2023
📢 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
17 Oct 2023
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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/hopkirks-… @uofglibrary
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21 Oct 2023
🍎 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!
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UofGLibraryFriends retweeted
20 Oct 2023
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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/hopkirks-…
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18 Oct 2023
See you all there! 😃👋
17 Oct 2023
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: eventbrite.co.uk/e/hopkirks-… @uofglibrary
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UofGLibraryFriends retweeted
12 Oct 2023
📢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: gla.ac.uk/library/researchfe…
🗓️Closing date: 9th Nov 2023
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14 Oct 2023
👀 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.
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11 Oct 2023
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
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4 Oct 2023
📚 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 👉 buff.ly/3Vhdl7L
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4 Oct 2023
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UofGLibraryFriends retweeted
30 Sep 2023
@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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30 Sep 2023
🤝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: buff.ly/3Vhdl7L
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27 Sep 2023
📄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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27 Sep 2023
📖 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👉 : buff.ly/3ZtO5hr
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23 Sep 2023
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
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20 Sep 2023
🤝 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.
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16 Sep 2023
🤔 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
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