A Spanish provenance A small piece of leather provides material evidence for the origin of an otherwise common parchment binding. Karin Scheper • March 16, 2012
A Picture of a 1721 PhD Ceremony at Leiden University More than 27,000 theses were defended at Leiden University Guest author • January 27, 2012
War in the library A copy of Santes Pagninos Hebraicarum institutionum libri IV (Paris, 1549) with a German ‘war past’ Kasper van Ommen • November 11, 2011
Delicious Holland in 1616 A prefab friends book, interleaved with blank pages for individual contributions, but in between pictures of Leiden and every day Holland, to keep alive the memory of the golden period of study in Leiden. Anton van der Lem • August 30, 2011
The Dutch translation of Werner Rolevinck’s Fasciculus Temporum A remarkable desigh with names of popes, emperors and kings meandering throughout the text. Guest author • April 29, 2011
The ‘Divisiekroniek’: Leiden book production in the year 1517 The costs of the work must have been substantial: 880 pages and over 300 illustrations, printed from 110 separate woodblocks. No wonder that its publisher Jan Severszoon requested an imperial patent in Brussels. André Bouwman • March 18, 2011
Praise of Folly Erasmus wrote one of the most famous books in world literature, Moriae encomium or Praise of Folly. Jef Schaeps • January 28, 2011
Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge The text wasn’t like anything readers had ever read before, not in as far as its content was concerned, nor in its structure. It seemed to belong more to the world of poetry than to that of prose. Jef Schaeps • June 04, 2010
Bibliotheca Mathematica of David Bierens de Haan catalogued The collection comprises 56 portfolios, each with dozens of smaller publications, mainly in the field of mathematics, sciences and technique. Anton van der Lem • April 23, 2010
