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From the treasury of the Leiden University Library, 50 extraordinary manuscripts have been selected.Foreword — Kurt De Belder 5 The Middle Ages as an open book — Frits van Oostrom 12 Windows to the past — Irene O’Daly 15 Collected in Leiden — André Bouwman 37 Acknowledgements 67 The word of God 71 01 The other side of an illuminated page 72 c. 875 — Gospel Book from Saint-Amand André Bouwman 02 Escaping the maze: Understanding the medieval Bible 76 12th century, 2nd half — Book of Job (Old Testament) Irene O’Daly 03 A sacred book – used, cherished and passed down 80 c. 1190 — Saint Louis Psalter Hanno Wijsman 04 The Bible as a growing manuscript 84 15th century, 2nd half — Southern Netherlands History Bible Mart van Duijn 05 Restrained elegance for pious women 88 c. 15th century — Leven ons heren Anne Korteweg Personal devotion 93 06 By and for the hands of a noble nun 94 c. 1440 — Book of Hours belonging to ‘ic Zaers’ Anne Margreet As-Vijvers 07 Book production as an international business 98 c. 1420–1440 — Latin Book of Hours intended for the English market Saskia van Bergen 08 Up to date 102 1498–1499 — Book of Hours with calendar and colophon André Bouwman 09 A manual for the higher spheres 106 15th century, last quarter — Collection of devotional and ascetic texts Geert Warnar 10 A printed manuscript? 110 16th century, 1st half — Compendium of spiritual texts Anna Dlabačová Makers and materiality 115 11 The triumph of word spacing 116 9th century, last quarter & 7th century, 2nd half — Carolingian codex with flyleaves in uncial script André Bouwman 12 Reversed, repurposed and recovered 120 c. 800 & 12th or 13th century — Codex with Carolingian panels in a Romanesque binding structure Karin Scheper 13 Text and images: two means to the same end 124 c. 1010–1034 — Schoolbooks by Ademar of Chabannes Ad van Els 14 Perfect to a fault 128 11th century — Dioscorides, De materia medica Erik Kwakkel 15 A unique edition of the Liber floridus 132 13th century, late — Lambert of Saint-Omer, Liber floridus Hanna Vorholt 16 The nature of a manuscript 136 c. 1317 — Lodewijk van Velthem, Fifth Part of the Spiegel historiael Jos Biemans 17 Continuity errors when copying a printed text 140 after 1484 — Boeck des guldenen throens André Bouwman Reading, correcting, annotating 145 18 A thousand years of textual editing 146 9th century, mid — Cicero, Philosophical works Irene O’Daly 19 Studying Lucretius at Charlemagne’s court 150 9th century, 1st quarter — Lucretius, De rerum natura David Ganz 20 Erasing evil: The battle of the Virtues and the Vices 154 9th century, 2nd quarter — Prudentius, Psychomachia and other works Irene O’Daly 21 A multicultural book 158 838 — Priscianus, Institutiones grammaticae and other texts Mariken Teeuwen 22 Guided reading: An annotated classical text 162 11th century — Persius, Satyrae; Juvenal, Satyrae Irene O’Daly 23 Canon law in Bologna 166 1322–1334 — Manuscript containing the Constitutiones Clementinae Quintijn Mauer Words and languages 171 24 Searching for words 172 8th century, late or 9th century, early — Latin glossary and other texts Irene O’Daly 25 In the classroom 176 9th century, 2nd & 3rd quarter — Glossary manuscript with the Hermeneumata Pseudo-Dositheana Rolf Bremmer 26 We know the solution, but what was the riddle? 180 9th century, 2nd quarter — Aldhelm and Symphosius, Ænigmata and the Old English ‘Leiden Riddle’ Thijs Porck 27 Signed, sealed, delivered: A shorthand lexicon 184 9th century, late or 10th century, early — Commentarii notarum Tironianarum Irene O’Daly 28 How the Egmond Willeram became the Leiden Willeram 188 c. 1100 — West Low Franconian paraphrasing of the Song of Solomon André Bouwman Counting and classifying 193 29 Nature cures, miraculously or otherwise 194 6th century, 2nd half — The Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel 30 A giant book 198 8th century, 2nd quarter — Pliny, Naturalis historia Mary Garrison 31 A constellation of copies and innovations 202 814–840 — Aratus / Germanicus, Aratea Suzette van Haaren 32 Hand signals and medieval counting 206 12th century, 1st half — Rabanus Maurus, De computo Irene O’Daly 33 An impossible object 210 14th century — Euclid, Elementa XI-XV Tazuko van Berkel 34 The Creation glitters in gold 214 c. 1360 — Jacob van Maerlant, Der naturen bloeme Bram Caers 35 Travelling scholars, travelling texts 218 15th century, early — Adelard of Bath, Regulae abaci Irene O’Daly Fables and fiction 223 36 For education and entertainment 224 c. 1325 — Composite manuscript with the fables of Esopet André Bouwman 37 Narrative pearls in a single volume 228 c. 1350 — Roman van Limborch and Roman van Walewein Bart Besamusca 38 The Holy Grail of German Arthuriana 232 1372 — Leiden’s Wigalois manuscript Jef Jacobs Presenting the past 237 39 A Roman history of the papacy and its readers 238 8th century, late — Liber pontificalis Rosamond McKitterick 40 Liudger’s treasure-trove of charters 242 9th century, 2nd half or 10th century, early — Liber cartarum Kaj van Vliet 41 Additions to an abbot’s work by his monks 246 1027–1039 — Abbo of Fleury, Excerptum de gestis Romanorum pontificum Marco Mostert 42 Robert of Torigni’s historical compendium 250 12th century, 2nd or 3rd quarter — Composite manuscript, including the Gesta Normannorum ducum by William of Jumièges Benjamin Pohl 43 The master’s hand 254 14th century, mid or 3rd quarter — Composite manuscript from the private library of Filips van Leiden Ed van der Vlist 44 Liturgical or not? 258 15th century, mid — Middle Dutch martyrology Eef Overgaauw Old texts, new readers 263 45 ‘By God, he shall not pass!’ 264 13th century, 2nd half — Digestum vetus with glosses and additiones Egbert Koops 46 Six plays for students and scholars 268 14th century — Greek tragedies by Aeschylus and Sophocles Casper de Jonge 47 A literary bestseller from the Renaissance 272 15th century, 2nd half — Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares Christoph Pieper 48 Frisia in Ferrara 276 1478 — Pliny’s letters, copied by Rudolph Agricola Adrie van der Laan 49 Ancient philosophers in Christian company 280 15th century & 16th century, 1st half — Collection of Greek writings from the Near East Gerard Boter 50 A French Iliad for the king 284 c. 1540 — Translation of Homer’s Iliad by Hugues Salel Alisa van de Haar Literature 289 Manuscript descriptions 297 Glossary 306 Index 308 About the authors 311