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From the treasury of the Leiden University Library, 50 extraordinary manuscripts have been selected.Foreword &mdash; Kurt De Belder 5 The Middle Ages as an open book &mdash; Frits van Oostrom 12 Windows to the past &mdash; Irene O&rsquo;Daly 15 Collected in Leiden &mdash; Andr&eacute; Bouwman 37 Acknowledgements 67 The word of God 71 01 The other side of an illuminated page 72 c. 875 &mdash; Gospel Book from Saint-Amand Andr&eacute; Bouwman 02 Escaping the maze: Understanding the medieval Bible 76 12th century, 2nd half &mdash; Book of Job (Old Testament) Irene O&rsquo;Daly 03 A sacred book &ndash; used, cherished and passed down 80 c. 1190 &mdash; Saint Louis Psalter Hanno Wijsman 04 The Bible as a growing manuscript 84 15th century, 2nd half &mdash; Southern Netherlands History Bible Mart van Duijn 05 Restrained elegance for pious women 88 c. 15th century &mdash; Leven ons heren Anne Korteweg Personal devotion 93 06 By and for the hands of a noble nun 94 c. 1440 &mdash; Book of Hours belonging to &lsquo;ic Zaers&rsquo; Anne Margreet As-Vijvers 07 Book production as an international business 98 c. 1420&ndash;1440 &mdash; Latin Book of Hours intended for the English market Saskia van Bergen 08 Up to date 102 1498&ndash;1499 &mdash; Book of Hours with calendar and colophon Andr&eacute; Bouwman 09 A manual for the higher spheres 106 15th century, last quarter &mdash; Collection of devotional and ascetic texts Geert Warnar 10 A printed manuscript? 110 16th century, 1st half &mdash; Compendium of spiritual texts Anna Dlaba&#269;ov&aacute; Makers and materiality 115 11 The triumph of word spacing 116 9th century, last quarter &amp; 7th century, 2nd half &mdash; Carolingian codex with flyleaves in uncial script Andr&eacute; Bouwman 12 Reversed, repurposed and recovered 120 c. 800 &amp; 12th or 13th century &mdash; Codex with Carolingian panels in a Romanesque binding structure Karin Scheper 13 Text and images: two means to the same end 124 c. 1010&ndash;1034 &mdash; Schoolbooks by Ademar of Chabannes Ad van Els 14 Perfect to a fault 128 11th century &mdash; Dioscorides, De materia medica Erik Kwakkel 15 A unique edition of the Liber floridus 132 13th century, late &mdash; Lambert of Saint-Omer, Liber floridus Hanna Vorholt 16 The nature of a manuscript 136 c. 1317 &mdash; Lodewijk van Velthem, Fifth Part of the Spiegel historiael Jos Biemans 17 Continuity errors when copying a printed text 140 after 1484 &mdash; Boeck des guldenen throens Andr&eacute; Bouwman Reading, correcting, annotating 145 18 A thousand years of textual editing 146 9th century, mid &mdash; Cicero, Philosophical works Irene O&rsquo;Daly 19 Studying Lucretius at Charlemagne&rsquo;s court 150 9th century, 1st quarter &mdash; Lucretius, De rerum natura David Ganz 20 Erasing evil: The battle of the Virtues and the Vices 154 9th century, 2nd quarter &mdash; Prudentius, Psychomachia and other works Irene O&rsquo;Daly 21 A multicultural book 158 838 &mdash; Priscianus, Institutiones grammaticae and other texts Mariken Teeuwen 22 Guided reading: An annotated classical text 162 11th century &mdash; Persius, Satyrae; Juvenal, Satyrae Irene O&rsquo;Daly 23 Canon law in Bologna 166 1322&ndash;1334 &mdash; Manuscript containing the Constitutiones Clementinae Quintijn Mauer Words and languages 171 24 Searching for words 172 8th century, late or 9th century, early &mdash; Latin glossary and other texts Irene O&rsquo;Daly 25 In the classroom 176 9th century, 2nd &amp; 3rd quarter &mdash; Glossary manuscript with the Hermeneumata Pseudo-Dositheana Rolf Bremmer 26 We know the solution, but what was the riddle? 180 9th century, 2nd quarter &mdash; Aldhelm and Symphosius, &AElig;nigmata and the Old English &lsquo;Leiden Riddle&rsquo; Thijs Porck 27 Signed, sealed, delivered: A shorthand lexicon 184 9th century, late or 10th century, early &mdash; Commentarii notarum Tironianarum Irene O&rsquo;Daly 28 How the Egmond Willeram became the Leiden Willeram 188 c. 1100 &mdash; West Low Franconian paraphrasing of the Song of Solomon Andr&eacute; Bouwman Counting and classifying 193 29 Nature cures, miraculously or otherwise 194 6th century, 2nd half &mdash; The Herbarium of Pseudo-Apuleius Claudine A. Chavannes-Mazel 30 A giant book 198 8th century, 2nd quarter &mdash; Pliny, Naturalis historia Mary Garrison 31 A constellation of copies and innovations 202 814&ndash;840 &mdash; Aratus \/ Germanicus, Aratea Suzette van Haaren 32 Hand signals and medieval counting 206 12th century, 1st half &mdash; Rabanus Maurus, De computo Irene O&rsquo;Daly 33 An impossible object 210 14th century &mdash; Euclid, Elementa XI-XV Tazuko van Berkel 34 The Creation glitters in gold 214 c. 1360 &mdash; Jacob van Maerlant, Der naturen bloeme Bram Caers 35 Travelling scholars, travelling texts 218 15th century, early &mdash; Adelard of Bath, Regulae abaci Irene O&rsquo;Daly Fables and fiction 223 36 For education and entertainment 224 c. 1325 &mdash; Composite manuscript with the fables of Esopet Andr&eacute; Bouwman 37 Narrative pearls in a single volume 228 c. 1350 &mdash; Roman van Limborch and Roman van Walewein Bart Besamusca 38 The Holy Grail of German Arthuriana 232 1372 &mdash; Leiden&rsquo;s Wigalois manuscript Jef Jacobs Presenting the past 237 39 A Roman history of the papacy and its readers 238 8th century, late &mdash; Liber pontificalis Rosamond McKitterick 40 Liudger&rsquo;s treasure-trove of charters 242 9th century, 2nd half or 10th century, early &mdash; Liber cartarum Kaj van Vliet 41 Additions to an abbot&rsquo;s work by his monks 246 1027&ndash;1039 &mdash; Abbo of Fleury, Excerptum de gestis Romanorum pontificum Marco Mostert 42 Robert of Torigni&rsquo;s historical compendium 250 12th century, 2nd or 3rd quarter &mdash; Composite manuscript, including the Gesta Normannorum ducum by William of Jumi&egrave;ges Benjamin Pohl 43 The master&rsquo;s hand 254 14th century, mid or 3rd quarter &mdash; Composite manuscript from the private library of Filips van Leiden Ed van der Vlist 44 Liturgical or not? 258 15th century, mid &mdash; Middle Dutch martyrology Eef Overgaauw Old texts, new readers 263 45 &lsquo;By God, he shall not pass!&rsquo; 264 13th century, 2nd half &mdash; Digestum vetus with glosses and additiones Egbert Koops 46 Six plays for students and scholars 268 14th century &mdash; Greek tragedies by Aeschylus and Sophocles Casper de Jonge 47 A literary bestseller from the Renaissance 272 15th century, 2nd half &mdash; Cicero, Epistulae ad familiares Christoph Pieper 48 Frisia in Ferrara 276 1478 &mdash; Pliny&rsquo;s letters, copied by Rudolph Agricola Adrie van der Laan 49 Ancient philosophers in Christian company 280 15th century &amp; 16th century, 1st half &mdash; Collection of Greek writings from the Near East Gerard Boter 50 A French Iliad for the king 284 c. 1540 &mdash; Translation of Homer&rsquo;s Iliad by Hugues Salel Alisa van de Haar Literature 289 Manuscript descriptions 297 Glossary 306 Index 308 About the authors 311"}