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The technique of Islamic bookbinding : methods, materials and regional varieties
'The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding' explores the development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. Based on an assessment of the collections in the University Library Leiden and focussing on construction, it covers in detail the various sewing techniques, board attachment structures, and the application of covering materials. A comparative analysis of the historic treatises on bookbinding provides further insight in the actual making of the Islamic book. It becomes clear that the tradition is more varied than often thought, and that distinctive material characteristics can be indicative for production in a certain period or region. Karin Scheper further demonstrates how diverse methods were used to create sound structures, which fundamentally changes our understanding of the Islamic bookbinding practice.
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Elegant anatomy : the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections
In Elegant Anatomy Marieke Hendriksen offers an account of the material culture of the eighteenth-century Leiden anatomical collections, which have not been studied in detail before. Starting from the materiality of preparations, it introduces the novel analytical concept of aesthesis.
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Arabic studies in the Netherlands : a short history in portraits, 1580-1950
\"Arabic is the only living language to have been taught in Dutch higher education for more than four centuries. Practical usefulness, however, has been a prerequisite from the start. Knowledge of Arabic was to promote Dutch interests in the Muslim world, or to help refute Islam. As a cognate of Classical Hebrew, the study of Arabic served as an ancillary science to Biblical studies. Nevertheless, many Arabists such as Thomas Erpenius and Jacobus Golius rose to international distinction. With more than 110 colour illustrations from the Leiden Oriental collections, Arabic Studies in the Netherlands. A Short History in Portraits, 1580-1950 by Arnoud Vrolijk and Richard van Leeuwen will help the reader to gain insight into a fascinating aspect of Dutch intellectual history.\"-- Publisher's website: http://www.brill.com/products/book/arabic-studies-netherlands
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Bonaventura Vulcanius, Works and Networks
This volume gathers studies and documentation on Bonaventura Vulcanius, a versatile philologist and writer who in 1581 settled in Leiden as a Professor of Greek and Latin. It includes many unpublished texts pertaining to this mysterious figure Dutch Humanism.
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The technique of Islamic bookbinding : methods, materials and regional varieties
The Technique of Islamic Bookbinding explores the development of the bookbinding tradition in the Islamic world. From a craft-based perspective, Karin Scheper analyses the diverse material characteristics and demonstrates the information value of the materiality.
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Catalogue of the manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens, including a concordance with his Oeuvres complètes
A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Christiaan Huygens inventories all known manuscripts written by Christiaan Huygens, all letters to or from him, plus family papers at UB Leiden. It also provides complete manuscript citations for Oeuvres Complètes.
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Leiden circa 1630 : Rembrandt emerges
Published in commemoration of the 350th anniversary of the death of Rembrandt van Rijn, this thoroughly illustrated publication documents the artist's early career, a period marked by daring experimentation that culminated in a signature pictorial vocabulary. After years of refining his skill, his work around this time displays the powerful chiaroscuro, gestural lucidity, and rigorous evocation of materiality that predict his finest achievements in his later Amsterdam period. Contextualized by work from his colleagues and students, Rembrandt emerges as a defining figure of the Leiden market. Featuring the strengths of The Bader Collection, such as Rembrandt's Head of an Old Man in a Cap and Jan Lievensz's Head of an Old Woman in Profile, as well as works from collections of Dutch art across Canada, the exhibition catalogue presents a focused view of the trademark subjects and styles that made the artist's reputation. Essays celebrate the artistic import, savvy self-promotion and stylistic identity that Rembrandt cultivated and modelled to those in his circle. In English and French. Exhibition: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada (24.08.-01.12.2019).
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Arminius on the Assurance of Salvation
With special attention to the academic context and sources of the Leiden debate, this book examines Jacobus Arminius's doctrines of salvation and the assurance of salvation, demonstrating the decisive role that assurance played in his dissent from Reformed theology.
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