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Há 4 dias · Incunabula, from the Latin for “swaddling clothes”, are books from the infancy of printing - anything printed using moveable type before 1501. These books are among the most precious items in any library and Edinburgh University is privileged to have a significant collection of nearly 300 such books. These early books have been extracted ...
Há 4 dias · Drummond was friend of poets Michael Drayton and of Sir William Alexander, Earl of Stirling, an acquaintance of Ben Jonson and a supporter of King Charles I. He graduated from the Tounis College (now the University of Edinburgh) in 1605 before proceeding to further study at Bourges and Paris in 1607 amd 1608. He published various works of verse ...
Há 4 dias · Halliwell-Phillipps (1820-1889) was a prolific and controversial literary scholar, who built up vast collections on Shakespeare and English literature. Halliwell-Phillipps established a relationship with the Library through David Laing, who had arranged for Halliwell to have access to our rare copy of 'Titus Andronicus' (London, 1600).
Há 4 dias · William Price Turner (1927-1998) was a poet, critic and editor who spent much of his life in Glasgow or Yorkshire. In 2001 the University of Edinburgh acquired some 400 poetry pamphlets from Turner’s library. They are all catalogued online with shelfmarks beginning “Turner”.
Há 4 dias · Sanskrit and India. The library of Arthur Berriedale Keith (1879-1944), Regius Professor of Sanskrit and Comparative Philology here from 1914-1944, was given by his sister to the Library on his death. The third son of an Edinburgh news agent, Keith was educated at the Royal High School and the University of Edinburgh before going on to study at ...
Há 4 dias · May 23, 2024. Richard Topinka was a loving husband and father and will be missed by his family and friends. Obituaries in Ocala and Marion County, Florida. Funeral notices, death notices, press release from funeral homes in and around Ocala and Marion County, FL.
Há 4 dias · Corson was a Scott bibliographer and former Deputy Librarian of Edinburgh University Library. Corson was dedicated to the pursuit of Scotland’s first great historical novelist from an early age. He had begun collecting printed editions of Scott in the secondhand bookshops of Edinburgh while he was still at school.
