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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!

📚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...

🍎 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

👀 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.

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

📚 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

🤝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 🏷️Sp Coll RQ 3198

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

🤝 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

🤔 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

📄 Project Profile: 17th C. commonplace books 📖 A manuscript find from c. 1695-1730 contains: 📓exercises in Latin and Greek 📈accounts 📜scraps of verse 👶medical remedies for childbirth, and ✒️countless pen trials Where to start? 🤔 🏷️MS Murray 188

📖 This emblem can be found in many of the books the Friends of Glasgow University Library purchased or contributed funds to. 🌸 The flower is a periwinkle, which can grow all year round and is usually blue, purple or white.

🤝 FGUL funded purchase 📖 🪑 The perfect reading chair doesn't exis- How about this one? Sheraton's design from 1803 looks pretty good to us, but would you use it? 🏷Sp Coll RB 1195

📖 Once owned by the Duke of Devonshire at Chatsworth Library, the 'Thesaurus linguae latinae' by Coelius Secundus Curio has survived since 1561. 🤝 FGUL funded purchase 🏷️ RF 145-147

📍 Happy #InternationalGeocachingDay 😀 🗺️ Navigation has evolved since the 17th and 18th Centuries, so these maps might not be very helpful Geocaching, but they have a lot of historical and archival importance! 🏷️ Sp Coll RB 1179 🏷️ Sp Coll RB 1648-1650

Have you ever annotated one of your textbooks? 📖15th century 'Summulae logicales' has many little notes written in. This one looks like a hand pointing to the text with perhaps the begninnings of a face? 🤝 Digitised in the FGUL funded Incunabula project 🏷️ Veitch Eg6-b.20