🏴 Leighton Library, Dunblane 📚
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Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library from 17th century Robert Leighton: Principal @EdinburghUni; Chancellor @UofGlasgow; Bishop @DunblaneCathed
Dunblane, Perthshire, Scotland
Joined November 2013
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/…New Testament divided into standard numbered verses. 🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library.🏴 Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library.📅 Open Mon-Sat.🕚 11am-4pm.🆓 Free admission (donations invited). #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland.
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1544 edition of "Euaggelikes proparaskeues biblia" edited by French printer & classical scholar Robert Estienne who died #OnThisDay 1559. He published many classical texts, & Greek & Latin translations of Bible, & first to print…/👇
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/…🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library.🏴 Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library.📅 Open Monday to Saturday.🕚 11am-4pm.🆓 Free admission (donations invited). #Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow.
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/…This is smallest book in Dunblane's historic Leighton Library. Robert Leighton made many notes in this book - in tiny handwriting for tiny book! It’s best known Christian book on devotion which, apart from Bible, has been translated into more languages than any other book…/.
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It's #ReadABookDay #NationalReadABookDay today. If it was a thing in Robert Leighton's lifetime, there's good chance he'd have been reading his 1634 edition of "De Imitatione Christi" (Imitation of Christ) by German priest & mystic Thomas à Kempis.…/👇.
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/…He was tortured & imprisoned for 27 years, during which time he wrote his most significant works. 🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library.🏴 Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library.📅 Open Monday to Saturday.🕚 11am-4pm.🆓 Free admission (donations invited).
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/…Campanella didn’t write fiction, but his idea objects possess consciousness & participate in cosmic sympathy philosophically legitimised notion that objects could “speak” or “remember”. Tommaso Campanella was accused of conspiring against Spanish rulers of Calabria in 1599…/.
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/…from stones to stars. This metaphysical stance laid groundwork for imagining objects as narrators/agents, concept that would later partly inspire first fully-fledged "it-narrative" in English (genre of novel which follows fortunes of object passed between different owners)…/.
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has a 1620 first edition of "De sensu rerum et magia" by Italian poet, philosopher, astrologer & theologian Tommaso Campanella, born #OnThisDay 1568. Campanella’s central claim in book is that everything in nature has “sense” or awareness…/👇
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/…🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library.🏴 Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library.📅 Open Monday to Saturday.🕚 11am-4pm.🆓 Free admission (donations invited). #Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow.
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/…Arabic naturalists like al-Damîrî & al-Qazwini. It was typographic feat, as London printers had to invent new typefaces to accommodate Bochart’s multilingual citations - Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, Latin - making this edition triumph of scholarly printing…/.
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/…scholarship, & early modern typographic ambition. It is 2-volume encyclopedic treatise cataloguing all animals mentioned in Bible. It blends philology, theology, & natural history, drawing from Hebrew, Syriac, Arabic, & classical sources. It’s one of earliest works to cite…/.
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/…religious version of Pliny's "Natural History" & expansion of Conrad Gesner's "Historiae animalium" the book relates Arabic naturalists, like al-Damîrî & al-Qazwini, none of whose work had appeared in European print before. Book was landmark in biblical zoology, orientalist…/.
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It's #NationalWildlifeDay #WildlifeDay. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1663 first edition of "Hierozoicon sive bipertitum opus De animalibus sacrae scripturae" (zoological treatise on animals of bible, by French biblical scholar Samuel Bochart. As well as being…/👇
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/…🚶Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library.🏴 Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library.📅 Open Monday to Saturday.🕚 11am-4pm.🆓 Free admission (donations invited). #Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland #ScotlandIsNow.
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/…His work is laced with insider knowledge & biting critique, an ecclesiastical exposé from someone who’d been deep within Catholic hierarchy. It was cited in debates about religious tolerance, papal authority, & historical truth…/.
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Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1749 edition of controversial 7-volume "History of the Popes" by Scottish historian noted for complicated & varying religious faith, Archibald Bower, who died #OnThisDay 1766. He was Jesuit who fled Italy & converted to Protestantism…/👇
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/…Visit Dunblane's historic Leighton Library.🏴 Scotland's oldest purpose-built independent library.📅 Open Monday to Saturday.🕚 11am-4pm.🆓 Free admission (donations invited). #Scotland #ScotlandIsCalling #VisitScotland #ExploreScotland.
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/…Explore what books were borrowed on any day in Dunblane's historic Leighton Library through "Books & Borrowing: An Analysis of Scottish Borrowers’ Registers, 1750-1830" website database accessible from Leighton Library website …/.
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/…was called for in 1611 (which is version Leighton Library has), when it was revised & corrected by the author, & enlarged by addition of "With a resolution of certain doubts, moved by some well affected brethren".…/.
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