Manuscripts, Archives and Letters Medieval manuscripts in the classroom: on site or online? For students who choose to immerse themselves in the Middle Ages, it is important to encounter the primary sources that lie at the basis of their secondary literature and editions. André Bouwman • 23-11-2021
Manuscripts, Archives and Letters A Medieval Matthäus-Passion This is what the ‘score’ of a St Matthew Passion looked like, long before Johann Sebastian Bach was to create his famous Oratorio. André Bouwman • 15-04-2019
Mundus Inversus in a Chained Library During the years that Leiden University maintained a chained library (1595-1653) the books were placed on the shelves upside-down. Read here why. André Bouwman • 15-08-2018
Manuscripts, Archives and Letters · Exhibitions Arthurian Hero Meets Cistercian Monks in Bonn Installing the Wigalois manuscript in the Rheinisches Museum. A courier reports. André Bouwman • 07-11-2017
The Decorations of Brugmans, or, How a Leiden Professor became a Hero at Waterloo By his display of vigour and efficiency, Brugmans saved the lives of many casualties. André Bouwman • 18-06-2015
Manuscripts, Archives and Letters 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 • 29-08-2014
Manuscripts, Archives and Letters 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 • 01-04-2014
Manuscripts, Archives and Letters Huygens in Leiden: the house rules of landlord Paravicino Constantijn Huygens received the regulations in a letter dated 26 May 1645. Were they disputed by his sons Constantijn Jr and Christiaan, who were students in Leiden and rented rooms at Paravicino’s? André Bouwman • 23-05-2013
Early Printed and Rare Books Two hundred years of Reynard studies: the Gräter edition (1812) Late in the 1790s, the now famous animal epic Van den vos Reynaerde was discovered in the library of a German abbey. André Bouwman • 07-12-2012
