Don't judge these dissertations by their cover!

Herman Nederburgh (1864-1935) gifted these copies of what appears to be his 1890 dissertation to his immediate family: his parents, sisters and fiancée.
Their contents, however, is not what it seems.
Read our #SpecialCollectionsBlog: ➡️ edu.nl/4qhcb

Friedrich Nietzsche once returned this 16th-century manuscript from the @unileiden.bsky.social #SpecialCollections almost two months too late. He blamed the postal service.
Read the full story in our #SpecialCollectionsBlog: www.leidenspecialcollectionsblog.nl/articles/bla...

How did colleagues in February 1940 poke fun at Leiden University rector magnificus Frederik Muller for what his successor called: “a preference for all things German”?

Learn about these tricked photos of Muller pulling Emperor Augustus' skirt in a dinner menu: edu.nl/66grh
#SpecialCollectionsBlog

Two 17th century Chinese-Portuguese dictionaries digitized The Leiden Library Asian Collection hosts, under the shelfmarks Or. 1929 a and Or. 1929 b two Chinese Portuguese dictionaries. These have now been made available in digital form. María Teresa González...

Two early Chinese-Portuguese dictionaries are now available via #DigitalCollections in #PublicDomain.

María Teresa González Linaje wrote a #SpecialCollectionsBlog about their fascinating contents. Like early transliteration efforts or a diagram for the tones used in Mandarin:
edu.nl/m4xfp

Tracing the lost Royal Manuscripts of Palembang During the 19th century colonial wars the library of the rulers of Palembang in Sumatra was looted by British and Dutch troops; its manuscripts were transported to other places and some of them are lo...

Tracing the lost Royal Manuscripts of Palembang.

Learn how Dr Alan Darmawan used personal notes from the archives of linguist and translator H. Neubronner van der Tuuk to uncover the violent history of 15 lost Sumatran manuscripts.
Read our newest #SpecialCollectionsBlog: 👇
edu.nl/fcc9u

NEW | When Elisabeth C. van Dorp (1872-1945) defended her dissertation in 1903, her friends and colleagues made this traditional print. It shows that women were still the odd ones out in the male-dominated @unileiden.bsky.social student world.

Learn more in our #SpecialCollectionsBlog:
edu.nl/qejp6

These illustrations from @unileiden.bsky.social's #SpecialCollections shed light on the making of Petrus Camper's dehumanizing ‘facial angle theory’ (1791), which was influential in the development of scientific racism.

@paulwolffmitchell.bsky.social wrote this #SpecialCollectionsBlog:
edu.nl/qd6yb