Leiden University Library

Leiden University Libraries is a library founded in 1575 in

"Est hic magna commoditas bibliothecae ut studiosi possint studere"

—Josephus Justus Scaliger

"The greatest advantage of the library is that those who want to study, can study."

History

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The 16th-century Dutch Revolt against the Habsburgs created a new country with a new religion. Soon, the need for a seat of higher learning was felt and in 1575 Leiden University was founded with the spoils from a confiscated Catholic monastery nearby.

At the time the university was founded, it was immediately determined that a library in the vicinity of lecture halls was an absolute necessity. The library's first book was the

In 1595 the Nomenclator appeared, the first catalogue of Leiden University Libraries as well as the first printed catalogue of an institutional library in the world. The publication of the catalogue coincided with the opening of the new library on the upper floor of the Faliede Bagijnkerk (now Rapenburg 70) next to the Theatrum Anatomicum.^[2]

In 1864 the copy for the complete alphabetical catalogue of the library in Leiden from 1575 to 1860 was finished; it was never to appear in print. Readers were able to consult alphabetical and systematic registers of the Leiden library in the form of bound catalogue cards, known as Leidse boekjes. This remained the cataloguing system for the library until 1988.

The 22nd Librarian of Leiden University, Johan Remmes de Groot took the initiative for the Dutch library automation endeavor PICA (Project Integrated Catalogue Automation). Pica was started up in 1969 and was bought by OCLC in 2000. The first automation project in Leiden started in 1976, produced 400,000 titles via the Dutch PICA-GGC and resulted within a few years in a catalog on microfiche, which partly replaced the famous Leiden booklets catalogue.

In 1983 the library moved to its present location on Witte Singel in a new building by architect Bart van Kasteel. The first online catalogue became available in 1988.

According to

Leiden University Libraries today

Leiden University Libraries focuses on the complete information chain. The library facilitates not only access to (published) information but increasingly supports the evaluation, use, production and dissemination of scholarly information. To accomplish this the library's activities range from supporting education in information literacy to serving as an expert center for digital publishing. The library aims to function as the scholarly information manager of Leiden University.^[3] The strategic plan Partner in Kennis (Partner in Knowledge)^[4] focuses on the transformation of the library to an expert centre supporting research and education in digital spaces through Virtual Research Environments and Datalabs, the realization of library learning centres, the development of new expert areas such as data curation and text & data mining, and on digital information skills.

Leiden's Catalogue^[5] makes available a considerable array of digital scholarly information: more than 400 databases, >70,000 e-journals, >5,000 newspapers and newsmagazines, >1,000,000 e-books and reference works, many hundreds of millions of journal articles, its digital special collections and repository materials. These digital information resources are available worldwide to Leiden University students and staff.

The special collections and archives of Leiden University (see below) are increasingly made available through the library's Catalogue and Digital Collections^[6] environment.

The library supports researchers from Leiden University through its Centre for Digital Scholarship which focuses on

In 2007, the library started with an ambitious program to renew and renovate its facilities: wireless access became available throughout the library in December 2007, in March 2008 the completely renovated Special Collections Reading Room Dousa was reopened, in June 2008 the fire protection systems installed in the closed stacks and the vaults of the library were taken into use, in December 2008 library patrons were able to make use of the new facilities created in the renovated Information Centre Huygens, and a new exhibition space was opened on 25 March 2010, in the direct vicinity of a completely renovated entrance. In 2012–2013 the study areas (the complete first floor and parts of the second floor) of the University Library were renovated and a media centre was opened.

Since 1 June 2009, the Leiden libraries form one organization: Leiden University Libraries (UBL). Leiden University Libraries has a number of locations: the University Library, the libraries of Social and Behavioral Sciences, Law, Mathematics and Natural Sciences and the East Asian Library. The collections of the former Archeology, Art History and Kern libraries are available at the University Library. On 3 September 2012, a Library Learning Centre was opened on the university's The Hague campus.

Leiden University Libraries took over in 2013 the colonial collections including the entire map collections (colonial and modern) of the

The collection Western Manuscripts contains all western manuscripts (including 2,500 medieval manuscripts and fragments and 25,000 modern manuscripts), 300,000 letters, archives and 3,000 annotated prints of the University Library, including the archives of the university.

Western Printed Works

The collection Western Printed Works contains materials printed before 1801 (including 700

Bodel Nijenhuis Collection

The Bodel Nijenhuis Collection contains mainly old maps, atlases, topographical prints and drawings. Most of the collection was obtained as a bequest from J.T. Bodel Nijenhuis. The lawyer Johannes Tiberius Bodel Nijenhuis (1797–1872), director of the publishing house Luchtmans, for 25 years a member of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, was a passionate collector of cartographical and topographical material.

The collection contains 60,000 maps (of which 3,000 drawings), 1,500 atlases, 24,000 topographical prints, 1,600 drawings and the archive of Youssouf Kamal's Monumenta Cartographica Africae et Aegypti.

Oriental Collections

From its very onset the study of the Orient was of vital importance to the new university. Theologians studied the Semitic languages to perceive the meaning of the Bible. Political and commercial interests prompted the new-born Dutch Republic to establish relations with its enemies' enemies, among whom the Ottoman Empire, then at the zenith of its power. In the course of its expansionist policy the Dutch Republic secured possession of the Indonesian archipelago and other territories in South East Asia. In Japan, Dutch merchants maintained a trading post to the exclusion of all other European powers.

In the course of four centuries countless manuscripts, printed books and photographs on the Orient and Oriental Studies have found their way to the library of Leiden University. Oriental Studies are still flourishing at Leiden University, and the Oriental Collections are still growing to serve the needs of the national and international scholarly community.

The Oriental Collections of Leiden University Libraries are known as the Legatum Warnerianum (Warner's Legacy), referring to Levinus Warner (1619–1665), envoy to the Sublime Porte at Constantinople, whose collection of 1,000 Middle Eastern manuscripts forms the core of the present-day Oriental Collections. In 1659 following the death of the Ottoman bibliophile-encyclopedist Kâtip Çelebi his library was sold. At the time it was the largest private library in Istanbul, and Warner acquired part of it for the University of Leiden.

The Oriental Collections nowadays contain 30,000 manuscripts and 200,000 printed books on subjects ranging from Archaeology to Zoroastrianism and in languages from Arabic to Zulu.

Bibliotheca Thysiana

The Bibliotheca Thysiana was erected in 1655 to house the book collection of the lawyer Joannes Thysius (1622–1653). Upon his early death, he left a legacy of 20,000 guilders for the building of a public library ("tot publycque dienst der studie") with a custodian's dwelling. Designed by the architect Arent van 's-Gravensande, the building follows the Dutch Classical style and is regarded as one of the jewels of Dutch 17th century architecture. It is distinguished by its balanced proportions and the purity of its Ionic order on top of a high basement.

The Bibliotheca Thysiana is the only surviving 17th century example in the Netherlands of a building that was designed as a library. It is quite extraordinary that a complete private 17th century library has been preserved and thus offers a good impression of the book collection of a young, learned bibliophile from the period of late Humanism. The collection contains about 2,500 books and thousands of pamphlets in all scientific fields.

Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde

Otherwise known as the MNL, the "

Print Room

Founded in 1822, the

The collection was started in 1864 with the opening of the Colonial Museum in Haarlem, but parts date back to the predecessor of the museum: the department of 'Trade and Colonies' founded in 1777 and part of the Hollandsche Maatschappij van Wetenschappen. In 1913 the collection was taken over by the Colonial Institute in Amsterdam founded in 1910. In 1950, after the Dutch decolonization, the mission of the Colonial Institute changed which was reflected in a name change to Royal Tropical Institute. But also the development of the collection changed quite drastically. In 2013 the library of the Royal Tropical Institute was closed and the part of the collection that dealt with the former Dutch colonies was housed at Leiden University Libraries.

Collection of the Royal Netherlands Institute of Southeast Asian and Caribbean Studies (KITLV)

The KITLV was founded in 1851 and created the foremost collections on Southeast Asia (especially on Indonesia) and the Caribbean (especially Suriname, Aruba and the Netherlands Antilles). The collection contains about 1 million – mostly postcolonial – books and special collections, including 150.000 digitized historical photographs, maps, prints and unique archives.

On 1 July 2014, the management of the collection was transferred from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences to Leiden University Libraries.

De Liagre Böhl collection

3,000

The Scaliger Institute, founded in 2000, aims to stimulate and facilitate the use of the special collections in both teaching and research. For this purpose, the institute offers favourable working conditions and expertise, organizes lectures, symposia, master classes, and special courses, and provides fellowships to junior and senior scholars from the Netherlands and elsewhere who wish to work in Leiden for a longer period.^[19] These include the Brill, Elsevier, Lingling Wiyadharma, Van de Sande, Juynboll en Ailion fellowships, which focus on different disciplines or regions.

The Scaliger Chair, affiliated with both the Institute at Leiden University Libraries and the university's Faculty of Humanities, is tasked with "promot[ing] teaching and research relating to the Special Collections held by the University library" through outreach activities directed towards academic and non-academic audiences.

Scaliger professors:

• Wim Gerritsen (2002–2006)
• Harm Beukers (2007–2016)
• Erik Kwakkel (2016–2018)
• Rick Honings (2020–present)

Furthermore, an internationally prominent scholar is frequently appointed as 'Visiting Scaliger Professor' who delivers i.a. the Scaliger Lecture: Anthony Grafton (2009), François Déroche (2010), Peter Frankopan (2017), Ted Underwood (2019).

The institute was named after Josephus Justus Scaliger (1540–1609), Leiden's most renowned scholar during the early years of its existence and a great benefactor of the University Library through the donation, at his death, of his exceptional collection of manuscripts and all his oriental books.

Specific information

• Areas of concentration: archaeology, anthropology, art, astronomy, cartography, classics, education, history, law, literature, medicine, Orientalism, papyrology, philosophy, politics, publishing, religion, science.
• Some individual collections:
  J.J. Scaliger, C. Snouck Hourgronje, C.P. Tiele, H.N. van der Tuuk, I. Vossius, L. Warner, N. van Wijk, Jan Wolkers
  .
• Some institutional collections: Bohn Publishers, Sijthoff Publishers, Bibliothèque Wallonne, NHK (Dutch Reformed Church), Seminarium Remonstrantum, photographs Indonesia, ISIM (Islam), Zaken Overzee (Netherlands Ministry of Overseas Affairs), Leiden Observatory.

Documents inscribed in the UNESCO Memory of the World Register

In the prestigious

• The Leiden
  La Galigo manuscript, written in Buginese (25 May 2011). From the NBG collection. NBG-Boeg 188^[20]
• The Dutch translation of the autobiographical manuscript of the Javanese prince Diponegoro (1755 -1855), national hero and pan-Islamist (18 June 2013). From the KITLV collection. D H 589 a^[21]
• The Panji manuscripts with ancient tales revolving around the mythical Javanese prince
  Panji (30 October 2017). ^[22]
• Voyage of circumnavigation by Ferdinand Magellan: Viagem de Fernao de Magalhaes, secundum narrationem cuiusdam socii et suppletus ex aliis fontibus, lusitanice (18 May 2023).^[23] VLF 41 ^[24]
• Hikayat Aceh manuscripts (18 May 2023).^[25] Or. 1954^[26] and Or. 1983^[27]

Treasures in the Leiden collections

• 'Leyden Manuscript'. Fragment (Latin, Breton/Cornish): Medical recipes, MS VLF 96 A, late 8th century/9th century. ^[28]
• 'Leiden Glossary'. MS VLQ 69, 800.
• ‘Leiden Aratea’. Aratus, Phaenomena interprete Claudio Germanico Caesare, MS VLQ 79, 813-840.
• Lucretius, De rerum natura, MS VLF 30, 825.
• Lucretius, De rerum natura, MS VLQ 94, first half 9th century.
• 'Anonymus Leidensis', De situ orbis, MS VLF 113 p.II, 850-875.
• Composite manuscript, two parts (Latin): 1. (ff. 1r-65v) Old Testament: 1 Maccabees, and other text(s). - 2. (ff. 150-211) Index and vocabulary on Vegetius' Epitoma rei militaris, and other text(s), MS PER F 17, 10th century. ^[29]
• Ibn Hazm, Ṭawq al-ḥamāma fī 'al-ulfa wa-al-ullīf, MS Or. 927, 1002. ^[30]
• Liber manualis or notebooks of
  Ademar of Chabannes
  , MS VLO 15, 1023-1025.
• ‘Leiden Dioscorides’.
  Dioscorides, Kitāb al-Ḥašāʾiš fī hāyūlā al-ʿilāg ̌al-ṭibbī, MS Or. 289, 1083. ^[31]
• 'Leiden Willeram, MS BPL 130, 1090-1110?.^[32]
• 'Saint Louis Psalter', MS BPL 76 A, 1190. ^[33]
• Abu Ishaq Ibrahim ibn Muhahammad al-Farisi al-Istakhri, مختصر كتاب المسالك والممالك لابي اسحاق ابراهيم بن محمد الاصطخري / World map in a summary of Kitab al-masalik wa’l mamalik, MS Or. 3101, 1193. ^[34]
• ‘Leiden Jerusalem Talmud’, MS Or. 4720, 1289. ^[35]
• Vincent of Beauvais, Miroir historial, MS VGG F 3 A, 1332-1335. ^[36]
• Penninc en Pieter Vostaert, Roman van Walewein, MS LTK 195, 1350. ^[37]
• Heinric van Aken, Roman van Heinric ende Margriete van Limborch, MS LTK 195, 1350. ^[38]
• Jacob van Maerlant Der naturen bloeme, MS BPL 14 A, 1366?. ^[39]
• Wirnt von Gravenberg, Wigalois, MS LTK 537, 1372. ^[40]
• Shahnama, MS Or. 494, 1437. ^[41]
• Jan Gossaert, The Spinario, PK-T-AW-1041, 15??-1532. ^[42]
• Pseudo-Albertus Magnus, Alchemical miscellany (German, Latin): De lapidibus and other text(s), MS VCF 29, 1522-1566. ^[43]
• Melchior Lorck, Prospect of Constantinople, BPL 1758, 1559. ^[44]
• Rembrandt, Adam and Eve (Study for Bartsch 28), PK-T-AW-1097, 1638. ^[45]
• Johannes de Laet, Historia Naturalis Brasiliae, 1407 B 3, 1648. ^[46]
• Christiaan Huygens, Scientific archive ‘Codices Hugeniani’, 17th century. ^[47]
• Georg Eberhard Rumphius, Amboinsch Kruidboek, MS BPL 314, 1692-1701.^[48]
• Raden Adjeng Kartini, Kartini Letters, 1900-1926. ^{[49] [50]}
• Paul Citroen, Metropolis, PK-F-57.337, 1923. ^[51]
• Emmy Andriesse, Photographs, 1930-1953. ^[52]
• Jan Wolkers, Archive, 1930-2007. ^[53]
• Frans Kellendonk, Archive, 1971-1991. ^[54]
• Hendrik Kerstens, Paula photograph series, 1992- .^[55]
• Erwin Olaf, Liberty: Plague and Hunger during the Siege of Leiden, PK-F-2011-0036, 2011. ^[56]

Librarians of Leiden University

Since the founding of the university in 1575 there have been 25 Librarians of Leiden University:

Library locations

Present locations

• University Library, Witte Singel 27, Leiden (Architect: Bart van Kasteel)
• Asian Library, Witte Singel 27, Leiden (Architect: Katja Hogenboom studio with FELSCH architecten)
• Law Library, Steenschuur 25, Leiden
• Social and Behavioral Sciences Library, Wassenaarseweg 52, Leiden
• Science Library, Einsteinweg 55, Leiden
• Walaeus Library (LUMC), Albinusdreef 2, Leiden
• NINO Library, Witte Singel 25, Leiden
• Academic Historical Museum, Rapenburg 73, Leiden
• Wijnhaven Library, Campus The Hague, Turfmarkt 99, The Hague
• KITLV-Jakarta, Jl. H.R. Rasuna Said Kav S-3, Jakarta, Indonesia

Former locations

1587–1595: Academiegebouw, Rapenburg 73, Leiden.

1595–1983: Faliede Bagijnkerk, Old University Library, now: University Board, Rapenburg 70, Leiden.

• 
  Vault room at Rapenburg 73 (location 1587–1595) [Photograph 1940]
• 
  Rapenburg 73 (1610) Print by Woudanus in Stedeboeck der Nederlanden, Amsterdam: Willem Blaeu, 1649.
• 
  Rapenburg 70 (1694) La nouvelle bibliothèque, from Les delices de Leide, une des célèbres villes de l'Europe, Leiden: P. van der Aa, 1712
• 
  Interior of the University Library. Glass negative, circa 1880. Photographer: Jan Goedeljee 1824–1905.
• 
  Reading room, University Library. Glass negative, circa 1880. Photographer: Jan Goedeljee (1824–1905).
• 
  Reading room, University Library. Glass negative, circa 1880. Photographer: Jan Goedeljee (1824–1905).
• 
  Rapenburg 70 (c.1890)
• 
  Depot of the Leiden University Library in ca. 1900
• 
  Rapenburg 70 (1963)
• 
  Current location: Witte Singel 27 (2006)
• 
  Leiden University Library (2023)

Leiden University Libraries in fiction

• Dutch author Frans Kellendonk (1951–1990) located his novel Letter en Geest. Een spookverhaal. (1982) in Leiden University Libraries. The main character in the novel Frits Mandaat replaces a sick colleague in the library. Kellendonk worked briefly in 1979 as a subject specialist for English literature at Leiden University Libraries.^[57]

Membership

Leiden University Libraries participates as a member in:

• NVB, the Dutch Association of Information Professionals
• UKB, the Dutch consortium of university libraries and the National Library
• SAE, Academic Heritage Foundation
• FOBID, the Netherlands Library Forum
• Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library
• LIBER, Association of European Research Libraries
• IFLA, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
• OAPEN
  , Open Access Publishing in European Networks (Founding member)
• IIIF
  , International Image Interoperability Framework (Founding member)

Programmes

Leiden University Libraries creates programmes about different topics highlighting its rich collections. These programmes are mostly in Dutch.

• UBL Boekensalon.
  Wilt Idema, Anne Sytske Keijser, Mark Leenhouts, Olga van Marion, Silvia Marijnissen, Djoeke van Netten, Gert Oostindie, Frits van Oostrom, Willem Otterspeer, Norbert Peeters, Alicia Schrikker, René van Stipriaan, Coen van ‘t Veer, Karina Wolkers, Kees Zandvliet
  .
• Van kluis naar kussen.[59] Conversations with researchers, students, experts and curators about specific Leiden collections: Dutch Caribbean and Suriname literature, women artists, anatomical drawings, song collection, Bibliotheca Thysiana, photography, prints and drawings, portraits, Medieval manuscripts, maps and atlases, letters, Charles Baudelaire, Chinese collections, collection of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde, conservation and restoration.
• UBL Podcast.
  decolonisation, Hugo Grotius, student revolt, Christiaan Huygens, prosecution homosexual Leiden student, Caspar Reuvens, Joseph Dalton Hooker, Sranan Tongo, piracy in the Caribbean, Indentured servitude, Kakera Akotie, The Book of Kings
  , etc.

• Strijden ga ik – Anton de Kom en de Surinaamse Studenten Unie. Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden, 10 November 2023 - 7 July 2024.
• Steef Zoetmulder. Kunsthal, Rotterdam, 2 September 2023 - 7 January 2024.
• Hendrik & Paula Kerstens: Self-Reflective. Museum Hilversum [nl], Hilversum, 9 April 2023 - 25 June 2023.
• Kaarten: navigeren en manipuleren. National Museum of Ethnology, Leiden, 21 October 2022 – 29 October 2023.
• Books that made History. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden, 22 June 2022 – 4 September 2022.
• Alexine Tinne, photographer – her world view. Haags Historisch Museum [nl], The Hague, 26 January 2022 – 12 Juni 2022.
• Photography Becomes Art. Photo-Secession in Holland 1890–1937.
  The Hague Museum of Photography
  , The Hague, 7 September 2019 – 8 December 2019.
• Leiden Celebrates! Highlights of an Academic Collection. Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, 17 October 2014 – 26 January 2015.
• Straatwerken (drawings by 17th century artist Leonaert Bramer). Westfries Museum, Hoorn, 14 December 2013 – 3 March 2014.
• World Treasures! From Cicero to Erwin Olaf. Discover the Special Collections of Leiden University.
  Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal
  , Leiden, 9 March 2013 – 30 June 2013.
• Turcksche boucken (Turkish books) from Levinus Warner. A seventeenth century diplomat and book collector in Istanbul. Museum Meermanno, House of the Book, The Hague, 15 December 2012 – 3 March 2013.
• Sweet&Salt. Water and the Dutch. Kunsthal, Rotterdam, 14 February 2012 – 10 June 2012.
• Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal
  and Leiden University Libraries, Leiden, 29 September 2011 – 8 January 2012.
• In Atmospheric Light. – Picturalism in Dutch Photography 1890–1925. Rembrandt House Museum, Amsterdam, 1 April 2010 – 20 June 2010.
• Photography! A special collection at Leiden University.
  The Hague Museum of Photography
  , The Hague, 23 January 2010 – 18 April 2010.
• On route to the Golden Age – Hendrick Goltzius & Jacob de Gheyn II. Limburgs Museum [nl], Venlo, 28 November 2009 – 28 February 2010.
• City of Books. Seven Centuries of Reading in Leiden.
  Stedelijk Museum De Lakenhal
  , Leiden, 22 February 2008 – 1 June 2008.
• Goed gezien. Tien eeuwen wetenschap in handschrift en druk. Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, Leiden. 30 October 1987 – 17 January 1988.^[61]

Furthermore, Leiden University Libraries often serves as lender to exhibitions by major museums in The Netherlands and abroad.

Publications

General (selection)

• (in English) Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck: Magna commoditas – Leiden University's great asset. 425 years library collections and services. Amsterdam, Leiden University Press, 2012.
  ISBN 978-90-8728-165-6 [Enlarged and updated edition] Digital version
• (in English) Elfriede Hulshoff Pol: 'The first century of the Leiden University Library'. In: Leiden University in the seventeenth century. An exchange of learning. Leiden, Universitaire Pers Leiden, 1975.
  ISBN 90-04-04267-9
• (in English) Quaestiones leidenses. Twelve studies on Leiden University Library and its holdings published on the occasion of the quarter-centenary of the university'. Ed. by Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck ... et al. Leiden, Universiteitsbibliotheek, 1975
  ISBN 90-221-9996-7

Collections (selection)

• (in Dutch) Tot Publijcque Dienst der Studie. Boeken uit de Bibliotheca Thysiana. Redactie: Wim van Anrooij & Paul Hoftijzer. Hilversum: Verloren, 2023.
  ISBN 9789464550030
• (in Dutch and English) Self-Reflective. Hendrik & Paula Kerstens. Maartje van den Heuvel (ed.). Zwolle: W Books, 2023.
  ISBN 9789462585577
• (in English) Maps That Made History. 1000 Years of World History in 100 Old Maps. Martijn Storms (ed.). Tielt: Lannoo, 2022.
  ISBN 978-94-014-8530-2
• (in Dutch) Kaarten die geschiedenis schreven. 1000 jaar wereldgeschiedenis in 100 oude kaarten. Martijn Storms (ed.). Tielt: Lannoo, 2022.
  ISBN 978-94-014-8529-6
• (in English) Books That Made History. 25 Books from Leiden That Changed the World. Edited by: Kasper van Ommen and Garrelt Verhoeven. Leiden: Brill, 2022.
  ISBN 978-90-04-52342-5
• (in Dutch) Boeken die geschiedenis schreven. Redactie: Kasper van Ommen & Garrelt Verhoeven. Amsterdam: Athenaeum, 2022.
  ISBN 978-90-253-1479-8
• (in Dutch) Kester Freriks & Martijn Storms. Grensverkenningen. Langs oude grenzen in Nederland. Amsterdam: Athenaeum, 2022.
  ISBN 978-90-253-1463-7
• (in Dutch and English) Fotografie wordt Kunst. Photo-Secession in Holland 1890–1937. Photography Becomes Art. Photo-Secession in Holland 1890–1937. Concept, image editing and text: Maartje van den Heuvel. Zwolle: WBOOKS in collaboration with Leiden University Libraries, 2019.
  ISBN 978-94-6258-358-0
• (in English) Voyage of Discovery. Exploring the Collections of the Asian Library at Leiden University. Edited by: Alexander Reeuwijk. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2017.
  ISBN 978-90-8728-274-5 Digital version
• (in English) Luitgard Mols & Arnoud Vrolijk. Western Arabia in the Leiden Collections. Traces of a Colourful Past. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2016.
  ISBN 978-90-8728-259-2 Digital version
• (in English) For Study and Delight. Drawings and Prints from Leiden University. Edited by: Jef Schaeps, Elmer Kolfin, Edward Grasman, Nelke Bartelings. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2016.
  ISBN 978-90-8728-241-7
• (in Dutch) Leiden viert feest. Hoogtepunten uit een academische collectie. Onder redactie van Jef Schaeps en Jaap van der Ven. Leiden: Leiden University Press, 2014.
  ISBN 978-90-8728-220-2
• (in Dutch and English) Arnoud Vrolijk, Jan Schmidt & Karin Scheper. Turcksche boucken. De oosterse verzameling van Levinus Warner, Nederlands diplomaat in zeventiende-eeuws Istanbul. The Oriental collection of Levinus Warner, Dutch diplomat in seventeenth-century Istanbul. Eindhoven: Lecturis, 2012.
  ISBN 978-90-70108-93-9
• (in English) Corien J.M. Vuurman. Nineteenth-century Persia in the Photographs of Albert Hotz. Images from the Hotz Photograph Collection of Leiden University Library, the Netherlands. Rotterdam en Gronsveld: Barjesteh van Waalwijk van Doorn & Co's Uitgeversmaatschappij, 2011.
  ISBN 978-90-5613-000-8
• (in Dutch and English) Maartje van den Heuvel, Janrense Boonstra & Jan van Dijk. In atmospherisch licht. Picturalisme in de Nederlandse fotografie 1890–1925. In Atmospheric Light. Picturalism in Dutch Photography 1890–1925. Zwolle: Waanders, 2010.
  ISBN 978-90-400-7686-2
• (in English) Maartje van den Heuvel &
  ISBN 978-90-89101-91-4
• (in Dutch) Fotovoorkeuren. 50 auteurs kiezen een foto uit de collectie van het Leids Prentenkabinet. Onder redactie van Joke Pronk & Tineke de Ruiter. Amsterdam: Voetnoot, 2007.
  ISBN 978-90-78068-15-0
• (in Dutch) Bronnen van kennis. Wetenschap, kunst en cultuur in de collecties van de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek. Onder redactie van Paul Hoftijzer, Kasper van Ommen, Geert Warnar & Jan Just Witkam. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2006.
  ISBN 978-90-5997-028-1
• (in Dutch) Oostersche weelde. De Oriënt in westerse kunst en cultuur. Met een keuze uit de verzameling van de Leidse Universiteitsbibliotheek. Onder redactie van Jef Schaeps, Kasper van Ommen & Arnoud Vrolijk. Leiden: Primavera Pers, 2005.
  ISBN 978-90-5997-023-6
• (in English) Hora est! On dissertations. Leiden, 2005. Digital version
• (in English) Jan Oort, astronomer, with contrib. by Jet Katgert-Merkelijn & Jos Damen (Q58161949). Leiden, 2000. Digital version
• (in Dutch) Goed gezien. Tien eeuwen wetenschap in handschrift en druk. Eindredactie R. Breugelmans. Leiden 1987.
  ISBN 90-6385-141-3^[61]
• (in English) R. Breugelmans: Leiden imprints 1483–1600 in Leiden University Library and Bibliotheca Thysiana. A short-title catalogue. Nieuwkoop, De Graaf, 1974.
  ISBN 90-6004-341-3

See also

• List of libraries in the Netherlands

References

1. ^ Christiane Berkvens-Stevelinck. Magna commoditas : geschiedenis van de Leidse universiteitsbibliotheek 1575–2000, p.240.
2. ^ Basbanes, N.(2001). Patience and Fortitude. Perennial, New York, p. 63.
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