Arthurian Hero Meets Cistercian Monks in Bonn Installing the Wigalois manuscript in the Rheinisches Museum. A courier reports. André Bouwman • November 07, 2017
A forbidden book The current Leiden University Libraries exhibition ‘Sanskrit – Asia and Beyond’ features a richly illustrated Persian translation of the Kamasutra from the Mughal period. This manuscript with its abundant erotic drawings was not always easily accessible. Karin Scheper • August 15, 2017
Huygens in Leiden: the house rules of landlord Paravicino Constantijn Huygens received the regulations in a letter dated 26 May 1645. Were they disputed by his sons Constantijn Jr and Christiaan, who were students in Leiden and rented rooms at Paravicino’s? André Bouwman • May 23, 2013
Two angels by Taddeo Zuccaro In the year 1529 the medieval church San Marcello al Corso in Rome burnt down to the ground. Nothing but a crucifix could be saved from its ashes. Jef Schaeps • May 11, 2012
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
Facebooker in the sixteenth century: Bonaventura Vulcanius Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century scholars developed their own ways of creating a social network. How did they communicate without modern social media like Facebook, Hyves and LinkedIn? Kasper van Ommen • October 07, 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 Night by Heinrich Aldegrever This woman wants to seduce us, the viewers. Jef Schaeps • February 15, 2010
Minerva by Hendrick Goltzius The artist has created his goddess solely with a brush, sometimes suggesting forms and outlines with the tip of the brush, sometimes applying heavy, graphic washings. Jef Schaeps • November 27, 2009
