Alexander Boyd fl.1619

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Alexander BOYD fl.1619

Biographical Note

Regent of the University of Glasgow. He left 1,000 merks to the university for the College building, as well as his books.

Books

Left 60 volumes, mostly Divinity, to the University of Glasgow in April 1619. Details of the books given by Boyd can be found in Munimenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis, Volume 3, pp.416-418.

Sources

  • Durkan, John. “The early history of Glasgow University Library: 1475-1710” The Bibliotheck; a Scottish Journal of Bibliography and Allied Topics 8: 4 (1977)
  • Munimenta Alme Universitatis Glasguensis. Records of the University of Glasgow, from its foundation till 1727, ed.Cosmo Innes, Maitland Club, 1854, Vol.3