Adopt a Book Register
There are 4,700 volumes in the Leighton Library collection, dating from 1504. Some volumes show signs of wear, due to handling, and so specialist book restorers are involved to rebind or repair as required., since we do not want to limit access to these beautiful artefacts.
The Leighton Library Trust is very grateful to donors over the years who have contributed to the cost of restoration work on volumes requiring specialist repair work to be undertaken.
Sponsors of books in our Adopt a Book programme are acknowledged in our Adopt a Book Register held in the Leighton Libraryibrary, here on the Leighton Library website, and by a name label with the book where this can be done.
Click on this link for more information about how to adopt a book
| Book Title & Date of Publication | Location | Donor(s) and date of restoration work |
Image of Book (before restoration) |
Image of Book (after restoration) |
| "Poems, chiefly in the Scottish dialect" by Robert Burns, 1787 | 13-E-7 | Dunblane Burns Club, June 2010 |  |
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| "Corpus et syntagma confessionum fidei quae in diuersis regnis et nationibus" by Gaspard Laurent, 1654 | 2-D-9 | Erskine Duncan, September 2010 | ||
| "The Books of the Old Testament in Irish" (translated into Irish by William Bedel), 1685 | 1-E-20 | Margaret Das, September 2010 | ||
| "Origenis Philocalia" by Origen & Jean Tarin, 1618 | 2-D-10 | Christine Howe, Harry McKerr, Colin Storrar, & Gordon Willis, November 2010 | ||
| "Simeonis Iunioris, theologi, presbyteri, et praepositi monasterij sanctissimi martyris Mamantis ad Xylocerum" by Simeon, Abbot of St Mamas, 1603 | 2-D-23 | Dunblane Cathedral Kirk Session, November 2010 | ||
| "Cosmographiae uniuersalis" by Sebastian Munster, 1554 | 6-G-9 | Anonymous donor, September 2010 | ||
| "Corpus iuris canonici emendatum et notis illustratum" by Giovanni PaoloLancellotti & Pope Gregory XIII, 1631 | 2-D-15 | Dunblane Cathedral Kirk Session, November 2010 | ||
| "Artis cabalisticae" by Johann Pistorius, & Paulus Ricius, 1587 |
2-E-11 | Peter Ainslie, David Kirk, Jennifer MacLellan, Evelyn Roberts, Wilma Stephen, & Graeme Young, September 2012 | ||
| "Historia Maior" by Matthew Paris, Roger, of Wendover, and William Rishanger, 1589 | 5-G-5a | Gordon Willis & Ellen Hughes, February 2014 | ||
| "Mark Anthony - Imperator" | 6-D-7 | Gordon Willis & Lady Jennifer Maclellan, August 2017 | ||
| "Catena graecorum patrum in beatum Iob collectore Niceta Heracleae metropolita" by Nicetas, Abp of Heraclea & Patrick Young, Patrick, 1637 | 4-F-10 | Various anonymous donors, March 2017 | ||
| "Sermons de M. Iean Caluin sur le liure de Iob" by John Calvin, 1569 | 9-F-13 | Peter Pinnock, December 2017 | ||
| "Scotia Depicta" by James Fittler, & John Claude Nattes, 1804 | 13-G-5 | Dr Murray Cook, Stirling Archaeology, July 2025 |  |
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