The KB has the largest collection of illuminated manuscripts in the Netherlands. Some 300 of the 450 illuminated manuscripts contain figurative images.
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Illuminated manuscripts
The KB has the largest collection of illuminated manuscripts in the Netherlands. Some 300 of the 450 illuminated manuscripts contain figurative images.
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Liturgical manuscripts
With around ninety manuscripts and a number of fragments, the KB collection of liturgical manuscripts is the largest public one.
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Middle Dutch manuscripts
Some of the most famous works from this collection are the unique Beatrijs manuscript, the Hague manuscript of hymns, the Lancelot compilation and Van Maerlant’s Spieghel historiael.
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Core collection of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
(Dutch)
Books concerning the Christian-hermetic tradition. This gnostic-philosophical-religious body of ideas has Egyptian, Greek, Jewish and Christian roots (in Dutch).