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Fagel Fine Bindings (1): Natural History

Posted on 10/04/2019

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

Posted on 27/03/2019

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

Posted on 20/03/2019

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

Posted on 27/02/2019

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...

Fellowship at Trinity Long Room Hub

Posted on 19/02/2019

For the next two months I am highly privileged to work as a research fellow at the Trinity Long Room Hub in Dublin. During this time I will research specific pa...

Library of the House of Representatives in De Boekenwereld

Posted on 28/10/2018

The latest issue of De Boekenwereld contains an article that I wrote about the oldest parts of the Library of the House of Representatives. It gives an overview...

Leufstabruk Herrgård

First results from the project ‘The Library of Leufstabruk’

Posted on 13/10/2018

Autumn has arrived at Leufstabruk. That means a colorful scenery, winds from the north and a library that becomes to cold to work in. In May I wrote about my Fi...

The much-debated life of Paulus Wirtz in a curious binding

Posted on 01/10/2018

A remarkable copy of the 17th century biography ‘t Leven en bedryf van d’heer Paulus Wirtz is present at Uppsala University Library. It has elaborat...

The correspondence of Harald Appelboom and Carl Gustaf Wrangel

Posted on 03/09/2018

The correspondence of Harald Appelboom and Carl Gustaf Wrangel at the National Archives in Stockholm is an extremely rich source for historians researching the ...

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