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Record ID 50025

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 4: Professors Receipt Book (1765-1770, Type: Professorial). Page: 38r

Temora

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/15 (Sunday). Original Borrowed Date: 12 Apr 1768. Original Returned Date: 15 May 1768.


Borrower

George Muirhead
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor of Oriental Languages 1753-1754; Chair of Humanity 1754-1773; Dean of Faculty 1764-1766; Clerk of the University 1769.
Original Full Name: Mr Muirhead. Life dates: 1715-1773. Academic dates: 1728; MA 1742 (Edin.).
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Professor.


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James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Poetry
Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books: together with several other epic poems ... Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson.
Press: AH. Shelf: 5. Number: 8. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bm6-f.10  . Original Author: Ossian..

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James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Poetry
Temora, an ancient epic poem, in eight books: together with several other poems, composed by Ossian, the son of Fingal. Translated from the Galic language, by James Macpherson.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1763. Format: 4to.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 137 times in 130 borrowing records


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James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796)
Genre: Poetry
Temora, an Ancient Epic Poem

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/15 (Sunday).

Borrower: George Muirhead

Author: James Macpherson (Male, born 1736, died 1796), Genre: Poetry

Temora, an Ancient Epic Poem

Record ID 50028

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 4: Professors Receipt Book (1765-1770, Type: Professorial). Page: 38r

Thucydides Dukari

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/15 (Sunday). Original Borrowed Date: 12 Apr 1768. Original Returned Date: 15 May 1768.


Borrower

George Muirhead
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor of Oriental Languages 1753-1754; Chair of Humanity 1754-1773; Dean of Faculty 1764-1766; Clerk of the University 1769.
Original Full Name: Mr Muirhead. Life dates: 1715-1773. Academic dates: 1728; MA 1742 (Edin.).
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Professor.


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Thucydides (Male, born c.BCE450, died BCE390)
Genre: History
Thoukydidou peri tou Peloponnēsiakou Polemou biblia oktō = Thucydidis de Bello Peloponnesiaco libri octo.
Press: F. Shelf: 4. Number: 15. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bh6-b.11  . Original Author: Thucydides..
Volumes borrowed: Volume , Volume

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/15 (Sunday).

Borrower: George Muirhead

Author: Thucydides (Male, born c.BCE450, died BCE390), Genre: History

History of the Peloponnesian War

Volumes borrowed: Volume , Volume

Record ID 50026

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 4: Professors Receipt Book (1765-1770, Type: Professorial). Page: 38r

Peck on Milton

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/15 (Sunday). Original Borrowed Date: 12 Apr 1768. Original Returned Date: 15 May 1768.


Borrower

George Muirhead
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor of Oriental Languages 1753-1754; Chair of Humanity 1754-1773; Dean of Faculty 1764-1766; Clerk of the University 1769.
Original Full Name: Mr Muirhead. Life dates: 1715-1773. Academic dates: 1728; MA 1742 (Edin.).
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Professor.


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Francis Peck (Male, born 1692, died 1743)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Lives
New memoirs of the life and poetical works of Mr. John Milton.
Press: L. Shelf: 6. Number: 15. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bh1-e.7  . Original Author: Peck, Francis, 1692-1743..

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/15 (Sunday).

Borrower: George Muirhead

Author: Francis Peck (Male, born 1692, died 1743), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Lives

New Memoirs of the Life and Poetical Works of Mr John Milton

Record ID 50027

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 4: Professors Receipt Book (1765-1770, Type: Professorial). Page: 38r

Memoires Acad. 15.16. T.

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/15 (Sunday). Original Borrowed Date: 12 Apr 1768. Original Returned Date: 15 May 1768.


Borrower

George Muirhead
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor of Oriental Languages 1753-1754; Chair of Humanity 1754-1773; Dean of Faculty 1764-1766; Clerk of the University 1769.
Original Full Name: Mr Muirhead. Life dates: 1715-1773. Academic dates: 1728; MA 1742 (Edin.).
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Professor.


Book Holding

Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) (Unspecified)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: History, Genre: Periodicals
Histoire de l'Académie Royale des inscriptions et belles lettres, depuis son establissement jusqu'à present
Press: AY. Shelf: 2. Number: 3:8. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bh2-k.1-4. Original Author: Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France).
Volumes borrowed: Volume 15, Volume 16

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/15 (Sunday).

Borrower: George Muirhead

Author: Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres (France) (Unspecified), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: History, Genre: Periodicals

Histoire de l'Académie Royale des Inscriptions et Belles Lettres

Volumes borrowed: Volume 15, Volume 16

Record ID 50401

Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 4: Professors Receipt Book (1765-1770, Type: Professorial). Page: 50r

Handmaid to ye Arts

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/5 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: 12 Apr 1768. Original Returned Date: 5 May 1768.


Borrower

John Robison
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor.
Original Full Name: John Robison. Life dates: 1739-1805.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Professor.


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Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
Handmaid to the arts.
Press: N. Shelf: 6. Number: 30. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bn3-k.9. Original Author: Dossie, Robert..

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Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
The handmaid to the arts, teaching, I. A perfect knowledge of the materia pictoria: or the nature, use, preparation, and composition, of all the various substances employed in painting; as well vehicles, dryers, &c. as colours: including those peculiar to enamel and painting on glass. II. The several devices employed for the more easily and accurately making designs from nature, or depicted representations; either by off-tracing, calking, reduction, or other means: with the methods of taking casts, or impressions, from figures, busts, medals, leaves, &c. III. The various manners of gilding, silvering, and bronzing, with the preparation of the genuine gold and silver powders, and imitations of them, as also of the fat oil, gold sizes, and other necessary compositions:-the art of japanning as applicable not only to the former purposes, but to coaches, snuffboxes, &c. in the manner lately introduced:-and the method of staining different kinds of substances with all the several colours. The whole being calculated, as well for conveying a more accurate and extensive knowledge of the matters treated of to artists; as to initiate those, who are desirous to attempt these arts, into the method of preparing and using all the colours, and other substances employed in painting in oil, miniature, enamel, varnish, and fresco; as also in gilding, &c.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1758. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 13


Book Work

Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777)
Genre: Fine Arts
Handmaid to the Arts

Borrowed: 1768/4/12 (Tuesday). Returned: 1768/5/5 (Thursday).

Borrower: John Robison

Author: Robert Dossie (Male, died 1777), Genre: Fine Arts

Handmaid to the Arts