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
Liquidation of a ‘Reading Museum’ in Leiden A recently discovered circular letter from 1826, sent by the Leiden professor of Theology Johannes Clarisse to the ‘gentlemen members of the now extinct ‘Reading Museum’ at Leiden, testifies to the end of one of the city’s first reading societies. Mart van Duijn • August 05, 2014
The world’s oldest share certificates The world's oldest share dated 27 August 1604 at Leiden University Libraries Guest author • June 19, 2014
An Englishman in Holland Recollections of a few days spent in Holland in 1826. Guest author • June 03, 2014
