Item 1 - Catalogue of curiosities collected by Robert Woodrow

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GB 249 OA/5/1

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Catalogue of curiosities collected by Robert Woodrow

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  • 1760 (Creation)

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1 volume

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(1679-1734)

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Numbered as MS 10 in the 1832 Catalogue of Anderson's Library.

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MS copy made by John Anderson, Glasgow College, 1 October 1760, of a catalogue of curisosities, 1703. Prefaced 'Copy of a small tattered book lent to me by the Reverend Mr. Peter Woodrow, Minister at Turbowtoun [ie Tarbolton], which he says is a catalogue of the curiosities collected by his father the Minister of Eastwood'. Lists natural history objects, fossils and antiquities.

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  • English

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