Bob MacLean

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Assistant Librarian (rare books), University of Glasgow Library Archives and Special Collections

Panoramic view from summit of Beinn Fhionnlaidh. Blue skies and sunshine
Brown 18c binding with ‘Joseph Ames’ stamped in blind in the centre
A geometric pattern in red and black ink (an angel) which is part of a scroll produced in Ethiopia in the 19th century. Writing beneath in Ge’ez. MS Gen 751
View of sunrise looking East over Glasgow from the top floor of University of Glasgow Library. Building on left with “University Library” in large white signage. Snow-covered buildings far below. Blue sky and rising sun
River, trees, and mountains beyond. All in sunshine and blue sky
A panoramic view from a hilltop looking down at water with hills in the background. Sunshine
A small (8cm height) book lying in an archival box. It has an embroidered binding of various naturalistic shapes on a cream silk background. A pink ribbon extends from the cover
Legs and feet lying on grass on hilltop in foreground. Distant hills and blu sky beyond. Bright sunshine
View from the summit of a hill. A panorama as camera moves left to right. Hills in distance, water (a loch) in foreground below. Sunny, calm, and blue sky
A video showing a 360 degree panoramic view from the summit of Sròn a' Choire Ghairbh. Blue sky and sunshine and hill tops in all directions
Blank leaves in a book
Cover of a brown leather book binding covered in black spots
Detail from a catalogue record of a 1629 copy of Argenis. Reads: Katharin Donholm (17th/18th century) likely Catherine Denholm, the wife of James Hamilton, Lord Pencaitland (1659-1729) (married ca. 1680) …
A book cover: Morvern Transformed. A Highland Parish in the Nineteenth Century. Philip Gaskell. Photo shows two people seated outside a stone-built house. One has a spinning wheel in front of her
Label on edge of a box reads: Outsized oddments
A page of Latin type from an 18th century Ovid. A single column main text takes up the top half of the page. Alphabetical footnote markers are added in superscript at the end of columns in smaller type. Beneath this an interpretation of the text is laid in smaller italic text in two columns with a vertical rule dividing them. Beneath that are notes from the main text, laid out in two columns, identified alphabetically and with vertical rule dividing them
Hand holds open a book. Title page has Latin text printed with alternating black and red lines. Reads:” P Ovidii Epistolarum Heroidum…” printed in London in 1722. The facing page has a handwritten ownership inscription,” Ex Libris Gulielmus Campbelli”
Still image taken from out takes of a 1960s British Pathè film, “Ireland - Tradition on the Move”. Shows a grey-haired and bespectacled reader seated at a desk with a large manuscript book (apparently the Book of Kells) sitting in front of her. It lies on the desk without a book cradle.
A hand-coloured lithograph caricature image of a compositor at his case with composing stick in left hand and reaching for type with right. Text reads: You set of a Printer, your nose is too red, Your legs are defective as well as your head; All your enjoyments are drawn from the pot; You’re ragged, you’re lazy, you’re a poor drunken sot. At births, deaths, and marriages you’re up to a trick, And, though not on the tramp, you have always a stick.
Open book on a white book cushion. Printed title in French reads: Le romant de La rose. Codicils et testament de maistre Jehan de meun. Beneath this, printed imprint information and various marks of ownership
Footnote reads: This note surfaced, and subsequently disappeared again, during an increasingly despairing investigation of Box 58