Quintilian’s Institutio oratoria: classical public relations Eloquence and speaking with facility need to be acquired by study and hard work. Jef Schaeps • April 27, 2012
Love and kinship bound together Book of friends with written contributions by Adolphus Vorstius, Scaliger, Erpenius and Heinsius + illustrations by Abraham Bloemaert and Paulus Moreelse. Guest author • February 16, 2012
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
Delicious Holland in 1616 A prefab friends book, interleaved with blank pages for individual contributions, but in between pictures of Leiden and every day Holland, to keep alive the memory of the golden period of study in Leiden. Anton van der Lem • August 30, 2011
World History in a Carolingian Manuscript Remarkably fine copy of the Chronicle of Eusebius-Jerome. 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
