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
Book burning in Louvain, 1914 Louvain was destroyed by German troops at the end of August. More than 200 civilians were shot, and a thousand manuscripts, eight hundred incunables and 300,000 books went up in flames. André Bouwman • August 29, 2014
Liquidation of a ‘Reading Museum’ in Leiden A recently discovered circular letter from 1826, sent by the Leiden professor of Theology Johannes Clarisse to the ‘gentlemen members of the now extinct ‘Reading Museum’ at Leiden, testifies to the end of one of the city’s first reading societies. Mart van Duijn • August 05, 2014
The world’s oldest share certificates The world's oldest share dated 27 August 1604 at Leiden University Libraries Guest author • June 19, 2014
An Englishman in Holland Recollections of a few days spent in Holland in 1826. Guest author • June 03, 2014
Love Lessons from a Dutch Civil Servant Dirc Potter treats the dos and don’ts of love in a didactic poem of 11,000 verses. The theory is illustrated with some sixty examples: love histories taken from the Bible and the work of the Latin poet Ovid. André Bouwman • April 01, 2014
An Embossed Map of Vienna by Georg Bauerkeller A very special technique of embossing in mapmaking. Guest author • March 01, 2014
Portraits of Huizinga and the Dies Natalis of Leiden University The most requested portraits of Huizinga are located in the printed menu of the festive dinner to celebrate the Dies Natalis of Leiden University on February 8, 1933. Anton van der Lem • February 06, 2014
