113 search results for “late medieval” in the Library website
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Jeroen OosterbaanFaculteit Archeologie
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Julia SzirmaiFaculty of Humanities
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Medieval Manuscripts
With its more than 1400 bindings and over a thousand fragments Leiden’s collection of medieval manuscripts (up to ca. 1550) is the largest in the Netherlands.
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Jip BarreveldFaculteit Archeologie
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Ahab BdaiwiFaculty of Humanities
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Post-medieval Manuscripts and Private Archives
The domain of the post-medieval manuscripts and private archives covers the period from about 1550 to the present. A clear distinction with the medieval manuscripts, however, is difficult to make. There are many undated manuscripts and it is often difficult to date them even within a decade or a quarter…
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Claire WeedaFaculty of Humanities
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Online access to medieval manuscripts improved
Do you frequently search the catalogue of Leiden University Libraries (UBL) for western medieval manuscripts? Then you must have noticed important changes lately. Some 1800 summary catalogue records in Dutch were replaced by more elaborate descriptions in English. Furthermore, the catalogue interface…
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Robert SteinFaculty of Humanities
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Medieval manuscripts made available in Europeana
Over 600 manuscripts and early prints have been made digitally available by Leiden University Libraries (UBL) via the Europeana platform. In the project 'The Art of Reading in the Middle Ages’ (ARMA), seven European heritage institutions added 30,000 digitised medieval items to Europeana’s database…
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Medieval manuscripts available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has made more than five hundred medieval handwritten text sources available online via Digital Collections. This makes a third of her collection of Western medieval manuscripts – one of the largest and the most important in the Netherlands – available in high resolution…
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X-ray technique reveals hidden medieval pages
Researchers from Leiden and Delft have found a way to look inside early-modern bookbindings. An x-ray technique has allowed them to search for remains of medieval manuscripts hidden inside the bindings.
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Egbert BosFaculty of Humanities
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Geert WarnarFaculty of Humanities
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Antoinette HuijbersFaculteit Archeologie
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Dusan MaczekFaculteit Archeologie
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Frans TheuwsFaculteit Archeologie
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Roos van OostenFaculteit Archeologie
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Antheun JanseFaculty of Humanities
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Jacobine MelisFaculteit Archeologie
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Hans JanssenFaculty of Humanities
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Rachel SchatsFaculteit Archeologie
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Jiayi XinFaculty of Humanities
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Erik Kwakkel confesses his love of Medieval books
As Scaliger professor, Erik Kwakkel is responsible for the academic context of the complete Special Collections of the Leiden University Library. His inaugural lecture on 15 May will focus mainly on the section closest to his heart: Medieval books.
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Hans MolFaculty of Humanities
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Marlisa den HartogFaculty of Humanities
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Alireza AsghariFaculty of Humanities
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Maia CasnaFaculteit Archeologie
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Roosje PeetersFaculty of Humanities
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New English translation of Huizinga’s Autumntide of the Middle Ages (Herfsttij der Middeleeuwen)
Leiden University Press presents a new now unabridged, richly illustrated edition of Huizinga's famous study of forms of life and thought of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries in France and the Low Countries.
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Digitized post-medieval western manuscript and archives collection now available in Digital Collections
Leiden University Libraries (UBL) has digitized more than a thousand individual manuscripts and several complete archives from the post-medieval western manuscript and archives collection and made them available online through Digital Collections. With this, some of the most important archives and masterpieces…
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Arnold MolFaculty of Humanities
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Weishuo LiFaculteit Archeologie
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Irene O'DalyFaculty of Humanities
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Mette LangbroekFaculteit Archeologie
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Nina JaspersFaculteit Archeologie
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Letty ten HarkelFaculteit Archeologie
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Olga van MarionFaculty of Humanities
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Harry FokkensFaculteit Archeologie
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Indira HuliselanFaculty of Humanities
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Mehdy Shaddel BasirFaculty of Humanities
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Louis SickingFaculty of Humanities
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Research suggestions
The research suggestions below may be suitable for a bachelor's or master's thesis or can be used as additional source material in ongoing research.
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Lasse van den DikkenbergFaculteit Archeologie
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Anne GerritsenFaculty of Humanities
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History of Science
Overview of databases, reference works and website for research in the History of Science
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Marie SoressiFaculteit Archeologie
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Teaching with Special Collections
There are several excellent options for teachers and researchers to engage students and other audiences with primary sources. Either by requesting items from the Special Collections for use during lectures or by integrating our educational resources into your lesson plans.