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We're at ICAS13!🙌 Come visit the UBLeiden & LUP booth and learn more about our vast collection of books and other resources💡 📍Unair ASEEC Tower Building, Surabaya 📅 28 July - 1 August 2024 #ICAS13 #IIAS #leidenuniversitypress #leidenuniversitylibraries

We're at ICAS13!🙌 Come visit the <a href="/ubleiden/">UBLeiden</a> &amp; <a href="/LeidenUPress/">LUP</a> booth and learn more about our vast collection of books and other resources💡

📍Unair ASEEC Tower Building, Surabaya
📅 28 July - 1 August 2024

#ICAS13 #IIAS #leidenuniversitypress #leidenuniversitylibraries
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Do you have a free afternoon tomorrow? Visit Rijksmuseum van Oudheden and listen to Boston College Prof. Emine Fetvacı's #LorentzLecture about "The Album of the World Emperor and European prints at the Ottoman court". Wednesday 31 July 16.00 - 17.00 Learn more: ➡️rmo.nl/en/lorentz-lec…

Do you have a free afternoon tomorrow?
Visit <a href="/RM_Oudheden/">Rijksmuseum van Oudheden</a> and listen to <a href="/BostonCollege/">Boston College</a> Prof. Emine Fetvacı's #LorentzLecture about "The Album of the World Emperor and European prints at the Ottoman court".

Wednesday 31 July
16.00 - 17.00

Learn more: 
➡️rmo.nl/en/lorentz-lec…
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With the opening of our new Middle Eastern Library, we're organising activities at home and abroad. Like the #Workshop "Arabic manuscripts and how to read them" at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in #Cairo on 6-7 November. Register before 5 August! ➡️edu.nl/jrbjb

With the opening of our new Middle Eastern Library, we're organising activities at home and abroad.
Like the #Workshop "Arabic manuscripts and how to read them" at the Netherlands-Flemish Institute in #Cairo on 6-7 November.

Register before 5 August!
➡️edu.nl/jrbjb
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The 11th-century Leiden Dioscurides, a Materia Medica and one of our most treasured Arabic manuscripts @MElibraryNL underwent large-scale conservation by our team of conservators @unileiden. Godelieva told us about how they went about the project: ➡️instagram.com/p/C91wKydNQfr/

The 11th-century Leiden Dioscurides, a Materia Medica and one of our most treasured Arabic manuscripts @MElibraryNL underwent large-scale conservation by our team of conservators @unileiden.
Godelieva told us about how they went about the project:
➡️instagram.com/p/C91wKydNQfr/
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What do you do when historical repairs on a medieval manuscript are damaging the object and hindering access for research and display? UBLeiden @unileiden conservation expert Godelieva told us about the treatment of the 11th-century Dioscurides. ➡️instagram.com/ub.leiden

What do you do when historical repairs on a medieval manuscript are damaging the object and hindering access for research and display?
<a href="/ubleiden/">UBLeiden</a> @unileiden conservation expert Godelieva told us about the treatment of the 11th-century Dioscurides.
➡️instagram.com/ub.leiden
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War, unimaginable tragedy, cultural exchange and revolutionary research. This medieval manuscript from the Leiden University Middle Eastern Collections saw it all. Study the full document in the @unileiden #DigitalCollections: ➡️hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:33… [Or. 251]

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Will you be the one to solve the Curious Case of Klaas Kolyn's Chronicle? Had it been an authentic medieval account of the Duchy of Holland, it would've been special, but alas, it's a 17th-century #fake. Who was the author of the forgery? Learn more: ➡️ instagram.com/ub.leiden

Will you be the one to solve the Curious Case of Klaas Kolyn's Chronicle?

Had it been an authentic medieval account of the Duchy of Holland, it would've been special, but alas, it's a 17th-century #fake. Who was the author of the forgery? 
Learn more: ➡️ instagram.com/ub.leiden
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How do you go about finding the original page order of an 11th-century Arabic manuscript? A previous conservation effort had left the Leiden Dioscurides bound with a wrong page order. Godelieva told us about how they corrected this historic mistake. ➡️instagram.com/ub.leiden

How do you go about finding the original page order of an 11th-century Arabic manuscript?
A previous conservation effort had left the Leiden Dioscurides bound with a wrong page order.

Godelieva told us about how they corrected this historic mistake.
➡️instagram.com/ub.leiden
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Are you the unwitting owner of an original #JohanHuizinga drawing? Huizinga expert antonvanderlem is creating the first-ever exhibition of Huizinga's visual work Universiteitsmuseum Groningen. Will you help us find Huizinga's lost drawings? #SpecialCollectionsBlog: ➡️edu.nl/tfw3n

Are you the unwitting owner of an original #JohanHuizinga drawing?
Huizinga expert <a href="/antonvanderlem/">antonvanderlem</a> is creating the first-ever exhibition of Huizinga's visual work <a href="/univmuseum/">Universiteitsmuseum Groningen</a>.

Will you help us find Huizinga's lost drawings?
#SpecialCollectionsBlog:
➡️edu.nl/tfw3n
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A little donation to Leiden University Library: the Tetterode miniature The Lord’s Prayer in ten point font size in the original transparent pergamine pouch from 1951

A little donation to Leiden University Library: the Tetterode miniature  The Lord’s Prayer in ten point font size in the original transparent pergamine pouch from 1951
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Our friends Europeana published their 1000th editorial story. Congratulations! ➡️edu.nl/vuqk8 Check out our #intro to #medieval #book #history, for example: Irene O'Daly's @unileiden 'Exploring the Medieval Manuscript Book' #video series: ➡️edu.nl/hxp9f

Our friends <a href="/Europeanaeu/">Europeana</a> published their 1000th editorial story. Congratulations!
➡️edu.nl/vuqk8

Check out our #intro to #medieval #book #history, for example: Irene O'Daly's @unileiden 'Exploring the Medieval Manuscript Book' #video series:
➡️edu.nl/hxp9f
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Are you looking forward to reading your book📚 in the new garden at the University Library UBLeiden @unileiden? The final step is planting biodiverse flowers and plants. And your bikes? Park them dry and safe underneath the #HertaMohr building or @Leidenhum #Lipsius.

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One of our most treasured #medieval #manuscripts, the 9th-century Leiden #Aratea is going overseas!✈️ The #planetarium at the back of the codex will be displayed in the Getty exhibition 'Lumen' in Los Angeles. Follow us to see the next step in the Aratea's journey!

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NEW | The rich literary tradition of the Middle East is, steadily gaining a foothold in the West. With diverse topics from the place of women in society to the war in Israel/Palestine. Check out our #ReadingList with titles from our new Middle Eastern Library Leiden: ➡️edu.nl/gygj9

NEW | The rich literary tradition of the Middle East is, steadily gaining a foothold in the West. With diverse topics from the place of women in society to the war in Israel/Palestine.

Check out our #ReadingList with titles from our new <a href="/MELibraryNL/">Middle Eastern Library Leiden</a>:
➡️edu.nl/gygj9
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What happens when a 9th-century manuscript travels across an ocean? 🌎 Our conservator @KarinScheper told us about the condition report she created for the Leiden Aratea, which is being loaned to Getty in LA for the #Lumen exhibition. Follow us for more videos.

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Wist u dat de gebroeders De Witt een #GrootenTour door Frankrijk en Engeland maakten? Zondag (20.20u NPO 2) vertelt conservator Martijn Storms 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ over lessen die zij leerden over bestuur adhv stukken uit @unileiden collecties in 'De Grooten Tour van de Gebroeders de Witt' Omroep MAX📺

Wist u dat de gebroeders De Witt een #GrootenTour door Frankrijk en Engeland maakten?

Zondag (20.20u <a href="/NPO2/">NPO 2</a>) vertelt conservator <a href="/MapStorms/">Martijn Storms 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️</a>  over lessen die zij leerden over bestuur adhv stukken uit @unileiden collecties in 'De Grooten Tour van de Gebroeders de Witt' <a href="/OmroepMAX/">Omroep MAX</a>📺