An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers' Registers
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Date of borrowing: 1780/3/23
Your search matched 5 borrowing records.
Record ID 51298
Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 5: Professors Receipt Book (1770-1790, Type: Professorial). Page: 23r
Addison's Anacreon (M.r J. Millar)
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/4/5 (Wednesday). Original Borrowed Date: 23 Mar 1780. Original Returned Date: 5 Apr 1780.
John Millar
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor.
Class: Logic. Original Full Name: Mr Millar. Life dates: 1735-1801.
Occupation (normalised): Education > University Student. Education > University Professor. Law > Advocate.
Anacreon (Male, born c.BCE582, died BCE485), Sappho (Female)
Genre: Poetry
Works of Anacreon, translated into English verse; with notes explanatory and poetical. To which are added the odes, fragments, and epigrams of Sappho. With the original Greek plac'd opposite to the translation
Press: AX. Shelf: 13. Number: 9. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bm9-k.2 . Original Author: Anacreon..
Confidence level: Certain
Anacreon (Male, born c.BCE582, died BCE485), Sappho (Female)
Genre: Poetry
The works of Anacreon, translated into English verse; with notes explanatory and poetical. To which are added the odes, fragments, and epigrams of Sappho. With the original Greek plac’d opposite to the translation. By Mr. Addison.
Language: English | Greek . Published: London. Date of publication: 1735. Format: 12mo.
Translators: Joseph Addison
Number of borrowings: 50
ESTC: T85612
Anacreon (Male, born c.BCE582, died BCE485), Sappho (Female)
Genre: Poetry
Works of Anacreon and Sappho
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/4/5 (Wednesday).
Borrower: John Millar
Author: Anacreon (Male, born c.BCE582, died BCE485), Sappho (Female), Genre: Poetry
Record ID 52603
Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 5: Professors Receipt Book (1770-1790, Type: Professorial). Page: 55r
Encyclopedie Tom. 14
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/5/11 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: 23 Mar 1780. Original Returned Date: 11 May 1780.
William Wight
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor.
Original Full Name: Dr Wight. Life dates: 1730-1782.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Professor. Religion and Clergy > Chaplain.
Jean le Rond d' Alembert (Male, born 1717, died 1783), Denis Diderot (Male, born 1713, died 1784)
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres
Press: I. Shelf: 2. Number: 5.6. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bn3-a.8-14. Original Author: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784..
Volumes borrowed: Volume 14
Confidence level: Certain
Jean le Rond d' Alembert (Male, born 1717, died 1783), Denis Diderot (Male, born 1713, died 1784)
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire raisonné des sciences, des arts et des métiers, par une société de gens de lettres.
Language: French . Published: Neuchâtel. Date of publication: 1751-1772. Format: folio.
Editors: Diderot, Denis, 1713-1784; Alembert, Jean le Rond d', 1717-1783.
Number of borrowings: Volumes associated with this edition were borrowed 116 times in 82 borrowing records
Jean le Rond d' Alembert (Male, born 1717, died 1783), Denis Diderot (Male, born 1713, died 1784)
Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/5/11 (Thursday).
Borrower: William Wight
Author: Jean le Rond d' Alembert (Male, born 1717, died 1783), Denis Diderot (Male, born 1713, died 1784), Genre: Reference Works
Encyclopédie, ou Dictionnaire Raisonné des Sciences, des Arts et des Métiers
Volumes borrowed: Volume 14
Record ID 52604
Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 5: Professors Receipt Book (1770-1790, Type: Professorial). Page: 55r
Richardson's Dissertation on Eastern Nations
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/4/27 (Thursday). Original Borrowed Date: 23 Mar 1780. Original Returned Date: 27 Apr 1780.
William Wight
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor.
Original Full Name: Dr Wight. Life dates: 1730-1782.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Professor. Religion and Clergy > Chaplain.
John Richardson (Male, born 1741, died 1811)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Travel
Dissertation on the languages, literature, and manners of Eastern nations ...
Press: CL. Shelf: 4. Number: 3. Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bh2-f.19. Original Author: Richardson, John, F.S.A., Barrister..
Confidence level: Certain
John Richardson (Male, born 1741, died 1811)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Travel
A dissertation on the languages, literature and manners of eastern nations.
Language: English . Published: Oxford. Date of publication: 1777. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2
ESTC: T90662
John Richardson (Male, born 1741, died 1811)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Travel
Dissertation on the Languages, Literature and Manners of Eastern Nations
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/4/27 (Thursday).
Borrower: William Wight
Author: John Richardson (Male, born 1741, died 1811), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: Travel
Dissertation on the Languages, Literature and Manners of Eastern Nations
Record ID 52606
Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 5: Professors Receipt Book (1770-1790, Type: Professorial). Page: 55r
Commercial letters & Vocabularies
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/6/13 (Tuesday). Original Borrowed Date: 23 Mar 1780. Original Returned Date: 13 Jun 1780.
William Wight
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor.
Original Full Name: Dr Wight. Life dates: 1730-1782.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Professor. Religion and Clergy > Chaplain.
Charles Wiseman (Male)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Epistolae commerciales, or commercial letters, in five languages, viz. Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese ... To which are added, mercantile and maritime vocabularies of each tongue ...
Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bi9-l.1 . Original Author: Wiseman, Charles, active 1779..
Confidence level: Certain
Charles Wiseman (Male)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Epistolæ commerciales, or commercial letters, in five languages, viz. Italian, English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese, with their respective idioms distinctly pointed out, written on various interesting Subjects, in the most modern Mercantile Style, as now practised; all which are carefully selected from the original Letters, as they stand in the Copy-Books of the most eminent and principal Merchants in Europe, both at Home and Abroad, and are here exhibited under fictitious Names of Persons, Times, and Places, &c.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 8vo.
Number of borrowings: 2
ESTC: T128550
Charles Wiseman (Male)
Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Epistolae Commerciales, or Commercial Letters
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/6/13 (Tuesday).
Borrower: William Wight
Author: Charles Wiseman (Male), Genre: Practical Arts/Useful Knowledge
Record ID 52605
Library: Glasgow University Library. Register: MS Lib 5: Professors Receipt Book (1770-1790, Type: Professorial). Page: 55r
History of the Troubadours
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/5/29 (Monday). Original Borrowed Date: 23 Mar 1780. Original Returned Date: 29 May 1780.
William Wight
Gender: Male.
Occupation (original): Professor.
Original Full Name: Dr Wight. Life dates: 1730-1782.
Occupation (normalised): Religion and Clergy > Minister/Priest > Church of Scotland. Education > University Professor. Religion and Clergy > Chaplain.
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Male, born 1697, died 1781)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: History, Genre: Lives
Literary history of the troubadours.
Possible modern shelfmark: Sp Coll Bk2-f.2 . Original Author: La Curne de Sainte-Palaye, Jean-Baptiste de, 1697-1781..
Confidence level: Certain
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Male, born 1697, died 1781)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: History, Genre: Lives
The literary history of the troubadours. Containing their lives, extracts from their works, and many particulars relative to the customs, morals, and history of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries.
Language: English . Published: London. Date of publication: 1779. Format: 8vo.
Translators: Dobson, Susannah, -1795.
Number of borrowings: 4
ESTC: T80464
Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Male, born 1697, died 1781)
Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: History, Genre: Lives
Literary History of the Troubadours
Borrowed: 1780/3/23 (Thursday). Returned: 1780/5/29 (Monday).
Borrower: William Wight
Author: Jean-Baptiste de La Curne de Sainte-Palaye (Male, born 1697, died 1781), Genre: Belles Lettres, Genre: History, Genre: Lives