The postal map of Jacob Quack
On the final day of my fellowship at Trinity Long Room Hub I casually scrolled through the 1872 catalogue of the library, when I stumbled upon a reference to my...
Category: Fagel Collection
The Fagel collection is one of the famous Dutch collections abroad. It was built up by the Dutch Fagel family, of whom several members held high offices in the Dutch Republic for large parts of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.
Fagel Fine Bindings (3): Dedications
Several fine bindings in the collection are the result of a classical artist-patron relationship. The Fagels were high-placed government officials and had the n...
Fagel Fine Bindings (2): Political Power
The fine bindings in the Fagel collection make up only a small part of the library. Some of the fine bindings in the Fagel Collection at Trinity College Library...
Fagel Fine Bindings (1): Natural History
Most books in the Fagel Collection are bound in simple vellum, the title neatly written on the spine, without any gold-tooling or other forms of decoration. The...
A New Year’s Salute from the Amsterdam Lamplighters’ Guild
A printed New Year's wish from the Amsterdam Lamplighters' Guild for the year 1695 recently turned up at Trinity College Library
A brief history of Dutch research in the Fagel collection
Trinity College Library has been visited by Dutch scholars for a century. What did they find in the Fagel collection and how can we build on that?
Sole Survivors in the Fagel Collection
The eyes of the bibliographer, the curator and the researcher all start to shine a little when you speak of ‘sole survivors’, that is, printed books...