Smallest book in Leighton Library is 1564 edition of "De Imitatione Christi" by Thomas à Kempis

Added by Leighton Library at 07:34 on 27 August 2024

#OnThisDay 27 August 1955 the first edition of the Guinness Book of Records was published in Britain. The record for the most expensive book was $14,165,000 paid for the Bay Psalm Book, sold at Sotheby's in New York. The book dates back to 1640, was the first book ever printed in British North Ameri...

Leighton Library has a 1569 edition of "P. Rami Scholarum mathematicarum, libri unus et triginta" by Petrus Ramus

Added by Leighton Library at 07:13 on 26 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1569 edition of "P. Rami Scholarum mathematicarum, libri unus et triginta" by influential French humanist, logician & educational reformer Petrus Ramus who was killed during the St Bartholomew's Day Massacre. #OnThisDay 26 August 1572

Leighton Library has a 1634 first edition of "Commentum de terrae motu circulari : duobus libris refutatum" by Alexander Ross

Added by Leighton Library at 07:04 on 25 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1634 first edition of "Commentum de terrae motu circulari : duobus libris refutatum. Quorum prior Lansbergi, posterior Carpentari, argumenta vel nugamenta potius refellit" by prolific Scottish writer and controversialist Alexander Ross. He was concerned to defend Aristotle...

Leighton Library has a 1662 edition of Book of Common Prayer

Added by Leighton Library at 06:35 on 24 August 2024

#OnThisDay 24 August 1662 the 1662 Book of Common Prayer was legally enforced as the liturgy of the Church of England, precipitating the Great Ejection of Dissenter ministers from their benefices. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1662 edition of this book

Leighton Library has 1619 edition of "Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutissimum" edited by Thomas Dempster

Added by Leighton Library at 07:01 on 23 August 2024

The Leighton Library has a 1619 edition of "Antiquitatum Romanarum corpus absolutissimum" (The Most Complete Body of Roman Antiquities) edited by Scottish scholar & historian Thomas Dempster who was born #OnThisDay 23 August 1579. He came to the attention of King James VI when he dedicated the book ...