Was een Leuvense kanunnik een vroege lezer van Spiegel historiael en Van den vos Reynaerde?

Op een perkamenten blad in het archief van de Abdij van Park staan verschillende pennenproeven. Onderzoek van Laurent Breeus-Loos en mezelf toonde aan dat twee van deze pennenproeven receptiesporen zijn van twee belangrijke werken uit de Middelnederlandse literatuur.

Irene van Eldere • June 16, 2023

John of Pamele’s Illustrated Rent Book

John of Pamele’s illustrated ‘Vieil Rentier’ is one of the few surviving secular rent books from before 1300. Its richly illustrated pages show John of Pamele as a commited landlord managing his far-flung properties.

Elizabeth den Hartog • June 02, 2023

De Geheimen van het Ierse Handschrift: Universitaire Bibliotheek, Leiden, VLQ 7

De meeste Ierstalige handschriften worden bewaard in nationale bibliotheken in Ierland of Groot Brittannië, maar één handschrift in de Ierse taal ligt al sinds de 17e eeuw in de Universiteitsbibliotheek van Leiden. Wat staat er in dit handschrift, en waarom is het zo belangrijk?

Nike Stam • February 10, 2023

Ademar of Chabannes's notebooks: A glimpse into the working methods of a medieval scholar

A recent study afternoon held at the University Libraries, Leiden, introduced scholars and members of the public to one of the most unique manuscripts in our collection – VLO 15, the notebooks of Ademar of Chabannes.

Irene O'Daly • November 25, 2022

Automated Reading of Medieval Manuscripts: An Alternative for Palaeography Classes?

New technologies may well blow the ‘dust’ off traditional scholarly skills such as palaeography, which risk being scratched from curriculums. In the ‘Digital Editing’ class in Leiden University’s Dutch department, students helped train a computer to automatically read medieval manuscripts.

Bram Caers • July 20, 2022

The maze of meaning: Interpreting Job through imagery in Leiden, UB, BPL 100 A

Leiden, UB, BPL 100 A, a glossed (annotated) copy of the biblical Book of Job dating from the twelfth century contains a number of sketches. What can these tell us about the interpretation of Job’s suffering in the Middle Ages?

Irene O'Daly • July 07, 2022

‘Red Riding Hood’ and the wolf: Marginal drawings in a collection of Cicero’s works

Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, PER F 25, a fifteenth-century collection of works by Cicero, contains a number of interesting marginal drawings, but how, if at all, do they relate to its text?

Irene O'Daly • December 09, 2021

Why did Antonio de Nebrija draw faces into a Dutch book from 1480?

The humanist Antonio de Nebrija (c. 1444-d.1522) was a serious scholar, renowned for his work on the Spanish language. His hidden talent for drawing expressive faces, however, is less well known.

Anna Dlabacová • August 21, 2020

Doodling in the Middle Ages

Doodling is something we do all the time: on the phone or attending a meeting we scribble, rather haphazardly and without thinking, squiggly lines, random words or mini drawings. The practice is old and originates in the pen trials of medieval scribes.

Erik Kwakkel • December 22, 2017

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