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
Love Lessons from a Dutch Civil Servant Dirc Potter treats the dos and don’ts of love in a didactic poem of 11,000 verses. The theory is illustrated with some sixty examples: love histories taken from the Bible and the work of the Latin poet Ovid. André Bouwman • April 01, 2014
Spiritual Contemplations at Leiden How to attain a truly perfect life Guest author • December 31, 2013
Leiden lecture notes from the 18th century Viri Celeberrimi Tiberii Hemsterhuis Dictata in Antiquitates Græcas Guest author • December 31, 2013
Jan van der Meulen, victim of the Spanish Fury in Antwerp ‘the cries and lamentations of the people are so loud that one’s heart grieves’ Guest author • December 31, 2013
Signed in blood by P.C. Hooft On 27 August 1627 Pieter Cornelisz Hooft wrote a heartrending letter to Heleonora Hellemans, the widow of Jan Baptist Bartolotti van den Heuvel. Guest author • November 05, 2013
