Catalogus scriptus librorum manuscriptorum et impressorum Isaaci Vossii 700 manuscripts and 4000 printed books sold for 33,000 Dutch guilders Guest author • September 16, 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
World History in a Carolingian Manuscript Remarkably fine copy of the Chronicle of Eusebius-Jerome. Guest author • April 29, 2011
Rumphius' description of the flora of Amboina Rumphius the East-Indian Pliny. Guest author • April 02, 2011
Letter from ‘galley-slave’ no. 9886 in Marseille Jean Richard de Tibante secretly wrote letters on board to his daughter to his daughter in the Netherlands Guest author • January 07, 2011
Common but not ordinary: a Late 11th-Century Dioscorides Written in Two Scripts Not a single decorative element is encountered in this manuscript and the parchment is of particularly poor quality. But the mix of scripts on its pages reveal an interesting story. Guest author • January 06, 2011
Imagining the past in a royal codex It took four folio volumes to contain an illustrated Miroir historial. A manuscript now kept in Leiden and one in Paris form the first two volumes of such a set, ordered by the French royal family. André Bouwman • November 19, 2010
Facebooker in the sixteenth century: Bonaventura Vulcanius Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholars developed their own ways of creating a social network. How did they communicate without modern social media like Facebook, Hyves and LinkedIn? Kasper van Ommen • October 07, 2010
Wigalois, a German Arthurian Hero The remarkable style of the miniatures, perhaps influenced by medieval tapestries, is clearly distinct from the contemporary Arthurian iconography, dominated by Parisian illuminators. André Bouwman • July 09, 2010
