Neglect of duty by a Batavian naval officer "Do I travel to The Hague to lose my health in some cell, or do I flee to Britain which will probably raise the hateful suspicions even more?" Erik-Jan Dros • June 07, 2016
Van Eeden visiting Busken Huet Friends at the dining table, rivals in literature dispute. Guest author • January 18, 2016
An album from Gorcum with a Leiden touch The recently purchased album amicorum of Charlotte Johanna Kneppelhout (1779-1842) is an album from Gorcum, but with a Leiden touch. Mart van Duijn • December 22, 2015
No Third of October Feast without its Programme! October 3rd merry chaos in Leiden. Anton van der Lem • October 03, 2015
Tracing Dispersed Notes in a Manuscript by Ademar of Chabannes Creative re-use of available parchment. Guest author • September 04, 2015
A New Discovery in an Old Astronomy Book One of the annotations reveals awareness for a faster calculation of sines known as the ‘Ingenious Way’ (Artificium). Guest author • April 07, 2015
Mementoes of Hans Christian Andersen In 1866 Hans Christian Andersen (1805–1875) sent a photograph of himself to the writer Anna Louisa Geertruida Bosboom-Toussaint (1812–1886). On the back he wrote: ‘a memento of H.C. Andersen’. Mart van Duijn • November 07, 2014
A Piano on Java Pen drawings in a manuscript copy of the story 'Sarina. A Javanese woman' show a piano. But what is a piano doing on Java? Mart van Duijn • September 21, 2014
Book burning in Louvain, 1914 Louvain was destroyed by German troops at the end of August. More than 200 civilians were shot, and a thousand manuscripts, eight hundred incunables and 300,000 books went up in flames. André Bouwman • August 29, 2014
