The biographical details of individual book owners are taken from various sources. Abbreviated references are given.
- British Armorial Bindings. University of Toronto
- CERL –The CERL Thesaurus file contains forms of imprint places, imprint names, personal names and corporate names as found in material printed before the middle of the nineteenth century - including variant spellings, forms in Latin and other languages, and fictitious names.
- Cowan, Ian Borthwick and Easson, David E. Medieval religious houses, Scotland: with an appendix on the houses in the Isle of Man. London: Longman, 1976.
- Dennison, Ditchburn and Lynch ed. Aberdeen before 1800. East Linton: Tuckwell, 2002.
- DNB - Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
- Drummond, H. J. H, A Short-title Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe 1501-1600 in Aberdeen University Library. Oxford: O.U.P., 1979
- EBOB Early book owners in Britain
- ESL - Durkan, John and Ross, Anthony. Early Scottish libraries. Glasgow: John S Burns & Sons, 1961
- Fasti Aberdonenses: selections from the records of the University and King's College of Aberdeen, 1494–1854, ed. C Innes Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1854
- Fasti academiae Mariscallanae Aberdonensis: selections from the records of Marischal College and University, 1593–1860, vol.1, ed. P J Anderson. New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1889
- Gascoigne, Christine. 'Book Transmission in Sixteenth and Seventeenth-Century North East Scotland: the Evidence of William Guild’s Books.' Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. 4. (2009) pp.32-48
- Keith, Alexander. A thousand years of Aberdeen. Aberdeen: AUP, 1972.
- LOC - Library of Congress Authority Files
- Macfarlane, L. J. William Elphinstone and the kingdom of Scotland, 1431-1514: the struggle for order. Aberdeen: Published for the University of Aberdeen by Aberdeen University Press, 1985.
- Mitchell, William Smith. Catalogue of the incunabula in Aberdeen University Library. Edinburgh: Oliver and Boyd, 1966.
- Munro, A.M. Memorials of the Aldermen, Provosts, and Lord Provosts of Aberdeen. Aberdeen: 1897.
- Officers and graduates of University and King's College, Aberdeen, 1495–1860, ed. P J Anderson New Spalding Club, Aberdeen, 1893
- Roll of alumni in Arts of University and King's College of Aberdeen, 1596–1860, ed. P J Anderson Aberdeen University Studies, 1, 1900
- Sanderson, Margaret H. B. Cardinal of Scotland, David Beaton, c. 1494-1546. Edinburgh: J. Donald Publishers, c1986.
- Wightman, W. P. D., Science and the Renaissance, vol. 2: An Annotated Bibliography of the Sixteenth-century Books Relating to the Sciences in The Library of the University of Aberdeen. Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1962