KU Leuven Libraries Special Collections

Thanks for the suggestion. We're still looking how we are going to integrate it in our collection (and thus also how to describe it).

Komt goed!

And for all those interested in studies on Mercator, have a look at some titles of our collection: tinyurl.com/mrxbhm7h.

I am afraid I have no idea. So anyone who can give a clue about the datation, that's much appreciated.

Don't be fooled by the appearances! At first glance, these look like early printed books, but it is an ingenious chest of drawers. Has anyone seen this elsewhere?

It is an umbrella site for various databases, including ‘Base Enluminures’. In total, you will find 4 million heritage objects there. 2/2

Our #siteoftheweek is POP - Plateforme ouverte du patrimoine. POP describes and disseminates scientific descriptions of cultural assets that are studied or preserved in France (works of art, buildings or sites, objects or furniture, photographs, etc.).

Het werkt!

Practical question for librarians working with mainly post 1800-materials: do you consider diplomas, invitations,... with a standard printed text but on which the name(s), date, signatures... are handwritten as a printed broadsheet or rather as a manuscript? #DTA

The Flemish masterpieces database ("topstukkendatabank"), which also includes seventeen works from our collection, has been given a new look, which is why we are putting it in the spotlight as #siteoftheweek.

Welcome!

At the end of December, we received an email from a woman who had been given a book that her grandfather had lent out just before WWII, and which had never been returned due to the turmoil of the war. Thanks to the granddaughter, the book is now back in our collection, better late than never...

Provenance research has been gaining importance for several years now. That is why we have written an article about our Corble collection, which has been almost entirely digitised, for the latest newsletter of the CERL #Provenance Working Group. See the attached document for this newsletter.

With this assistant, users can explore academic information by asking questions in natural language. The tool searches the extensive Central Discovery Index and formulates answers based on the abstracts of five selected sources, with references to those publications in the text.

For our #siteoftheweek, we are staying very close to home. We are putting our own search platform, Limo, in the spotlight, because since the start of the second semester, Limo has had a new, smart search tool: the Limo AI assistant. kuleuven.limo.libis.be/discovery/se...

Join us tomorrow morning for the first lecture in the FitMA series with @jkeskiah.bsky.social!

CoMMA is a worldwide corpus of medieval manuscripts automatically transcribed using artificial intelligence. The corpus exists of more than 33,000 manuscripts, approximately 3.3 billion words in Latin and Old French, from the 9th to the 16th century. #siteoftheweek

Zou ongelooflijk zijn...

Hartje gegeven bij dit bericht, maar eigenlijk is dat een beetje raar. En voor jou moet dit zeker geen fijne post geweest zijn.

Do you have reading suggestions for articles that underline the importance of (academic) libraries for students/staff? There exist a lot of articles, but I wonder what colleagues suggest as useful articles for students on this topic. Extra: master students in the humanities, not in library science.

PARITY is an interdisciplinary research project that combines a textual-literary and a cultural-historical strand. At the moment, PARITY on-line catalogue consists of 30 paratextual elements connected with female authorship in early modern Italy. #siteoftheweek parityinrenaissance.net/home/

From graphicdesign and illustration to architecture: it was all there. And as the icing on the cake, they admired a beautifully illuminated 15th-century book of hours, with gold leaf! Exceptional magazines were also featured, showing how design has evolved over time.

Yesterday, we received students from 7th y. Special Visual Arts Education from the Louvain school De Wijnpers, together with a group of graphic design students from Modena (Italy). They were taken on a journey through the wonderful world of special books, from the 15th c. to the present day.

Please note that Special Collections will be closed for two days next week: Monday 2 February (KU Leuven Patron Saint's Day) and Thursday 5 January (Library Day). #serviceannouncement

The link tinyurl.com/2dpyatez leads to the bibliographic description of this manuscript, including an overview of the studies on it and the link to the digital version in Teneo.

The work is also important from a book history perspective, as it came to Leuven as a result of German reparations after the First World War and survived the fire of the Second World War.

It is illuminated with six full-page miniatures (of which there were probably eight originally), added later, and eight historiated initials. These illustrations are the work of the Gold Scrolls Group and date the manuscript to the period 1425-1435 in Bruges.

#recentlydigitized: ms. 1007. This book of hours for use in Rome is one of the most studied manuscripts in our collection. It is an important work in several respects. In addition to the classic components of a book of hours, usually in Latin, it also contains various Middle Dutch prayers.

Our #siteoftheweek is a sub-site of DONum, the digital repository of ULiège. On this sub-site, you will find the complete digital version of more than 300 works published between 1894 and 2009 by the Liège Library of the Faculty of Arts and Philosophy. donum.uliege.be/handle/prove...

It is not very noticeable, but in this Suffridus Petrus' edition of Plutarch (CaaA2682), the name of the historian from Leeuwarden (also student + private lecturer at the University of Leuven) has been replaced by “Franciscus Petrus Leodiensis”. It is unclear why “Frisij” has not been crossed out.