An Attentive Public in the Courtroom Never published: Suriname. Views, Types and Costumes, drawn after nature by A. Borret. Guest author • October 06, 2015
The Great False Prophet Mahomet In past times, the European war of propaganda against Islam could take bizarre shapes, as is shown by this Dutch illustrated book from 1627 Arnoud Vrolijk • May 23, 2015
A Piano on Java Pen drawings in a manuscript copy of the story 'Sarina. A Javanese woman' show a piano. But what is a piano doing on Java? Mart van Duijn • September 21, 2014
An Englishman in Holland Recollections of a few days spent in Holland in 1826. Guest author • June 03, 2014
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
Bahía lost, Sluis regained Alternative facts in 1625: an unknown newsprint of the Spanish capturing the city of Salvador in Brazil illustrated with a re-used woodcut of the siege of Sluis Martijn Storms • October 17, 2013
Short Notes and Scribbles in Malay Manuscripts Seemingly insignificant scribbles such as notes or writing exercises in the margins or on the flyleaves of manuscripts, may reveal information that is not found elsewhere. Guest author • September 10, 2013
Noah's Ark in a Christian Arabic Manuscript The story of Noah's Ark from the Bible is retold in this Arabic manuscript from the early nineteenth century Arnoud Vrolijk • November 23, 2012
A Dutch-Chinese dictionary in manuscript from Batavia On an early dictionary with contemporary Mandarin pronunciation. Guest author • September 14, 2012
