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
An Embossed Map of Vienna by Georg Bauerkeller A very special technique of embossing in mapmaking. Guest author • March 01, 2014
Portraits of Huizinga and the Dies Natalis of Leiden University The most requested portraits of Huizinga are located in the printed menu of the festive dinner to celebrate the Dies Natalis of Leiden University on February 8, 1933. Anton van der Lem • February 06, 2014
The 1610 Engravings of Leiden University: Botanical Garden The engraving of the Botanical Garden is one in a series of four, the other three depicting the Anatomical Theatre, the University Library and the Fencing School. Guest author • January 23, 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
The Confusion of Cyrillic Script For a long time no one in Leiden knew very well how to deal with books from Eastern Europe. A Croatian translation of the New Testament was taken for Russian until the eighteenth century. Kasper van Ommen • November 22, 2013