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
The ‘Divisiekroniek’: Leiden book production in the year 1517 The costs of the work must have been substantial: 880 pages and over 300 illustrations, printed from 110 separate woodblocks. No wonder that its publisher Jan Severszoon requested an imperial patent in Brussels. André Bouwman • March 18, 2011
Praise of Folly Erasmus wrote one of the most famous books in world literature, Moriae encomium or Praise of Folly. Jef Schaeps • January 28, 2011
Rainer Maria Rilke, Die Aufzeichnungen des Malte Laurids Brigge The text wasn’t like anything readers had ever read before, not in as far as its content was concerned, nor in its structure. It seemed to belong more to the world of poetry than to that of prose. Jef Schaeps • June 04, 2010
Bibliotheca Mathematica of David Bierens de Haan catalogued The collection comprises 56 portfolios, each with dozens of smaller publications, mainly in the field of mathematics, sciences and technique. Anton van der Lem • April 23, 2010
Give me your hand Palm reading or chiromancy has a long history: it was practised in ancient India and was in use among the ancient Greeks. Johannes Praetorius from Zetlingen, Germany, compiled several publications on the subject. Kasper van Ommen • March 26, 2010
Exhibition on the 400th anniversary of the invention of the telescope On 25 September 1608 Hans Lipperhey, an optician from Middelburg applied for a patent for a 'certain instrument to see far'. André Bouwman • March 12, 2010
The oldest book from the Groenhout Library The books of a seventeenth century catholic priest who lived and worked in calvinist Holland are a welcome addition to the historical collections at Leiden University Anton van der Lem • December 04, 2009
Johannes de Laet and Dutch Brazil De Laet's interest in the New World led him to seek a role in the Dutch West India Company. In 1648 he edited and published a richly-illustrated folio edition, documenting Brazils little-known landscape Anton van der Lem • November 13, 2009
