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Early Printed and Rare Books

Before and after Luther

31 October 1517 Martin Luther nailed his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg. It marks the symbolical beginning of the Protestant Reformation. His translation made the Bible available for the general public.

Mart van Duijn • 31-10-2017

Manuscripts, Archives and Letters · Exhibitions

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 • 19-11-2010

Middle Eastern Special Collections

André du Ryer, L’Alcoran de Mahomet (Amsterdam, 1734)

The less neurotic approach to Islam in the Age of Enlightenment is reflected in the title page illustration of Du Ryer's Quran translation published by Pierre Mortier.

Arnoud Vrolijk • 13-01-2010

Middle Eastern Special Collections

Tales from the Arab tribes, C.G. Campbell

Out of interest, but possibly also to kill the time, a British army officer in Iraq set down the folktales of the local Shia tribes.

Arnoud Vrolijk • 24-12-2009

Blogs

Before and after Luther

Imagining the past in a royal codex

André du Ryer, L’Alcoran de Mahomet (Amsterdam, 1734)

Tales from the Arab tribes, C.G. Campbell