📚 Dunblane's historic Leighton Library

/…extended into literary circles, with Ben Jonson mocking him as his ideas were seen to be ripe for parody

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/…reflected his obsession with precise biblical timelines & his belief in literal fulfillment of prophecy.

Broughton was known for disputes with other scholars, & his works often sparked debate & were delivered in public lectures which drew large audiences. His notoriety…/

/…& prophecy. It had focus on biblical figure Mordecai & his age, which Broughton argued was crucial for interpreting prophecy in Daniel. Broughton used Mordecai’s age to support idea that exactly 490 years after Gabriel’s prophecy, Christ would be “killed to give life.” This…/

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1612 first edition of "A letter to a friende" by English scholar & theologian Hugh Broughton who died from consumption (tuberculosis) #OnThisDay 1612

This was theological tract which reflected deep engagement with biblical chronology…/👇

Leighton Library closed on Monday 4 August due to severe weather warning

/…Would you like to Adopt a book at risk in Dunblane's historic Leighton Library? Find out more about how to adopt a book by clicking on following link: www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/adopt-a-book...

Leighton Library, Dunblane | Adopt a Book Register

/…Then original boards were rebacked with new leather spine

Sponsors of each book are acknowledged in our Adopt a Book Register, as well as on the Library website (which you can see here www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/adopt-a-book...) and by a name label where possible with the restored book…/

/…antiquities, abbeys, castles, battlegrounds, public buildings & landscapes

The professional restoration saw pages being collated & taken down into loose folios, tissue line & repair using archival heatset tissue, seal on tissue, refolded, re-collated & resewn all along through centre folds…/

The Leighton Library’s 1804 edition of “Scotia Depicta” has now been restored with thanks to donor to Leighton Library’s Adopt-a-book programme, Dr Murray Cook, Stirling Archaeology @stirlingdigger.bsky.social

This book contains exceptional engravings & text pages relating to Scotland’s…/👇

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/…et al Engraved on forty-nine copper-plates, by Thomas Jefferys."

Samuel Holland was First Surveyor General of British North America, and Thomas Jeffreys was Geographer to King George III. The atlas features maps of the Americas from the Arctic to Cape Horn…/

#OnThisDay 1776 signing of United States Declaration of Independence took place. Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has contemporary 1776
edition of "The American atlas : or, A geographical description of the whole continent of America composed from numerous surveys by Major Holland…/👇

YouTube video by Leighton Library Dunblane Robert Leighton: a man who chose bridge-building over battle lines

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YouTube video by Leighton Library Dunblane Robert Leighton: a man who chose bridge-building over battle lines

Enjoy a new podcast-style episode about the life and legacy of Robert Leighton - a man who chose bridge-building over battle lines - and whose bequest led to the creation of Dunblane’s historic Leighton Library, Scotland’s oldest purpose-built independent library.

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/…with angels cranking globe at each pole. Map’s cartography is attributed to Sebastian Münster, with border illustrations possibly by Hans Holbein

This edition reflects Europe’s shifting worldview, where myth gave way to mapped reality…/

/…only second major collection of New World voyages, this edition compiled accounts of early European exploration, including voyages to Americas, Africa, & Asia

It includes Typus cosmographicus universalis, one of earliest maps to depict Earth rotating on its axis - shown…/

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1537 edition of "Novvs orbis regionum" edited by influential German academic Simon Grynaeus who died suddenly from the plague #OnThisDay 1541

This book was landmark in early modern geographical literature & exploration history. It was…/

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/…designed to be carried out by someone in retreat or solitude over a month. It would have served guide for spiritual directors leading retreats, helping participants undergo month-long journey of introspection, discernment, & commitment to Christ…/

Dunblane's Historic Leighton Library has 1619 edition of "Exercitia spiritualia" by Spanish theologian who co-founded Society of Jesus (Jesuits) Ignatius of Loyola who died #OnThisDay 1556. This book comprises spiritual exercises - meditations, prayers & mental exercises in four themes…/👇

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/…rebuke - a chronicle that dared to challenge centuries of papal tradition with pen of condemned man. Barnes used historical narrative to expose what he saw as corruption & doctrinal drift in papacy through documented acts & decisions of successive popes…/

Dunblane's Historic Leighton Library has 1615 edition of "Vitae romanorum pontificum" - last work of English reformer & martyr Robert Barnes, executed #OnThisDay 1540. This is compilation of, & commentary on, various acts from reigns of past Popes. It is a reformer’s final…/👇

/…which became Royal Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

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/…testimony & views which inspired him

Book was influential & best-seller, with 7,500 copies sold within 6 months, translated into several languages. With others, Wilberforce founded world's first animal welfare organisation, Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals…/

/…Wilberforce was British politician, philanthropist & leader of movement to abolish the slave trade

Book was exposition of New Testament doctrine & teachings & call for revival of Christianity, as response to what was seen as moral decline of nation, illustrating his own…/

Dunblane's historic Leighton Library has 1833 "A practical view of the prevailing religious system of professed Christians, in the higher & middle classes in this country, contrasted with real Christianity" by William Wilberforce (who died #OnThisDay 1833) and Daniel Wilson…./👇

Leighton Library, Dunblane | News | Wolfson Foundation has a

/…for entry & consequently library is not accessible to those with limited mobility. Undercroft will be fully accessible at ground level, enabling anyone to engage with collection

Find out more here: www.leightonlibrary.org.uk/news/wolfson...

/…Redevelopment of Undercroft is phase 3 of Restoration Project for the Library. We are creating a new visitor facility, engagement space and exhibition area. As the library room was established on the upper floor, visitors must currently climb an original external forestair…/