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Anne-Rieke van Schaik found this #map legend @kbrbe. It turns out it was originally part of a map in the @ubleiden collections: a spectacular narrative map depicting the siege of Sluis in 1604.
Learn about her #discovery in our #SpecialCollectionsBlog:
➡️https://t.co/tp8qFhOLv3
Anne-Rieke van Schaik @UvA_Amsterdam recently #discovered the missing legend and explanation of this intriguing narrative map depicting the siege of Sluis during the Dutch Revolt in 1604.
Read her #SpecialCollectionsBlog about her #discovery:
➡️https://t.co/tp8qFhOLv3
NEW | Leading Chinese poet Zhou Zan 周瓒 wrote this #SpecialCollectionsBlog for us about "The Nineties", an unofficial poetry journal she discovered in our #DigitalCollections!
➡️https://t.co/1SiDnMqfcX
Learn about our upcoming #LeidenUnPo #symposium:
➡️https://t.co/ln6Y0UgJ24
We recently acquired a beautiful artwork in the form of a book, created by Loes Huis in 't Veld: 'Cavafy, my father and me'.
Cavafy expert Maria Boletsi @unileiden wrote a #blog about this special edition for us.
Read her #SpecialCollectionsBlog here:
➡️https://t.co/gSmyD097V8
This rare Arabic primer to the Amharic language (1872) provides unique insight into 19th-century Egyptian education, Egyptian-Ethiopian relations, and the development of Arabic print culture.
Johannes Makar @harvard wrote this #SpecialCollectionsBlog:
➡️https://t.co/eTN9GvtJbJ
This rare #Arabic primer to the #Amharic language from 1872 provides unique insight into trends in Egyptian #education, Egyptian-Ethiopian relations, and Arabic print culture.
Learn more in our newest #SpecialCollectionsBlog by @Harvard Johannes Makar:
➡️https://t.co/v5WH01H5wz
Are you the unwitting owner of an original #JohanHuizinga drawing?
Huizinga expert @antonvanderlem is creating the first-ever exhibition of Huizinga's visual work @univmuseum.
Will you help us find Huizinga's lost drawings?
#SpecialCollectionsBlog:
➡️https://t.co/7XubKFCRK0
Treasured manuscripts were often protected with bags or satchels in the Middle East and Africa. But in conservation, they are often overlooked.
Our conservator @KarinScheper wrote this #SpecialCollectionsBlog about bags & satchels from @MELibraryNL.
➡️https://t.co/UMlQikfsDs
@ASCLeiden @UniLeidenNews @LeidenGlobal @LUCAS_Leiden Learn more about Annachiara Raia's work with Swahili pocket literature from the @ubleiden @unileiden collections in this fascinating #SpecialCollectionsBlog she wrote: ➡️https://t.co/uqSUEDZ0bM
These leather bindings were beautifully decorated in the 15th-century Mamluk Empire. Were the chemicals they used dangerous to the paper of the book?
Learn about this conservation research project @ubleiden @unileiden in our #SpecialCollectionsBlog:
➡️https://t.co/zpAm8XgXZi
NEW | Stains in manuscripts can be problematic, but can also reveal interesting information.
How do we decide which stains are dangerous?
Luca van der Zande studied 15th-century #Mamluk #manuscripts.
Read this #SpecialCollectionsBlog @KarinScheper:
➡️https://t.co/zpAm8XgXZi
How did a @LeidenArchaeo professor @unileiden travel to a dig site in 1930s Iraq?
Prof. Frans de Liagre Böhl left his #archive & photos to @NINO_Leiden @MELibraryNL so we can answer this question in detail!
Read our latest #SpecialCollectionsBlog:
➡️https://t.co/1AgnR5fmE0
NEW | In 1932, @LeidenArchaeo professor Frans de Liagre Böhl took many photos while visiting archaeological sites in Iran and Iraq.
Koen Klein & Wouter Hofland @NINO_Leiden take you on a trip through the Böhl archive in our #SpecialCollectionsBlog: ➡️https://t.co/1AgnR5fmE0
#SpecialCollectionsBlog | Were Malay-Indonesian people interested in Shīʿīsm in the 17th- and 18th centuries?
Majid Daneshgar wrote about the new perspectives offered by @AsianLibraryNL manuscript Or. 5658 on the Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia:
➡️https://t.co/Qhgb5N11yb
This rare and fragile Persian-Malay manuscript can help us better understand the history of Persian speakers and Shīʿīsm in Indonesia.
Majid Daneshgar wrote a #SpecialCollectionsBlog about Or. 5658 and its links to the Iranian Diaspora in Southeast Asia:
➡️https://t.co/Qhgb5N11yb
What is the best way to link unidentified woodcut prints to the books they were originally published in?
Danny Sunder identified several boxes of prints in a few weeks. He wrote this #SpecialCollectionsBlog about his internship project @ubleiden.
➡️https://t.co/fb9n9fDY7Q
Want to learn more about women artists in the @ubleiden @unileiden #SpecialCollections? Check out these two #SpecialCollectionsBlog posts by our curator @JefSchaeps:
Contemporary women artists:
➡️https://t.co/7soWFTdfRr
17th and 18th-century: ➡️https://t.co/J8uiDMJmua
Starting in the 1930s, Islam became portable and accessible in East Africa through new pocket-sized Swahili prints. @ubleiden holds almost 1000 of these remarkable booklets.
Read @ASCLeiden Annachiara Raia's #SpecialCollectionsBlog about them:
➡️https://t.co/qhLhzYznY1
How is one a good Muslim in the modern world?
You'll find it in almost 982 pocket-size #Swahili booklets from East Africa held @ubleiden.
Annachiara Raia @ASCLeiden @leidenhum wrote a #SpecialCollectionsBlog about this remarkable print collection:
➡️https://t.co/qhLhzYznY1
Many 'Miao albums' depict people and places in the southwestern periphery of the Chinese Qing Empire, but very few contain #maps of the region.
Jialong Liu @KU_Leuven wrote about the rare maps @ubleiden's Miao album in our #SpecialCollectionsBlog:
➡️https://t.co/sk32AW5JDD
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