Astronomers and their observatories in the picture: Van de Sande Bakhuyzen’s photo album in grateful esteem for his services rendered to science and country Guest author • November 26, 2011
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
Digging up the past Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje encountered the tombstones of the sultans of Pasai in Aceh. Guest author • May 13, 2011
World History in a Carolingian Manuscript Remarkably fine copy of the Chronicle of Eusebius-Jerome. Guest author • April 29, 2011
The Dutch translation of Werner Rolevinck’s Fasciculus Temporum A remarkable desigh with names of popes, emperors and kings meandering throughout the text. 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
