An Embossed Map of Vienna by Georg Bauerkeller A very special technique of embossing in mapmaking. Guest author • March 01, 2014
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
A Spanish provenance A small piece of leather provides material evidence for the origin of an otherwise common parchment binding. Karin Scheper • March 16, 2012
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
Common but not ordinary: a Late 11th-Century Dioscorides Written in Two Scripts Not a single decorative element is encountered in this manuscript and the parchment is of particularly poor quality. But the mix of scripts on its pages reveal an interesting story. Guest author • January 06, 2011
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 • November 19, 2010
Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis: a late antique bestseller in the ninth century The interest in Martianus's text was at a peak in the ninth century. Many copies were made, and the text was enriched with a thick layer of annotations (glosses): notes in tiny letters in the margins and in between the lines. Guest author • May 21, 2010
Latin gospel book from the Franco-Saxon School Each gospel in the Leiden manuscript opens with two illuminated pages built up with decorative elements and letters. André Bouwman • August 19, 2009
