Constantijn Huygens, Antonius Thysius, and the Leiden University Sammelband of the Works of Margaret Cavendish

University Libraries play a crucial role in moving towards Open Science, contributing to more transparent, reproducible and reusable research. The Center for Digital Scholarship (CDS) at Leiden University (LU) library is a scholarly lab that promotes open science literacy among Leiden’s scholars by two complementary strategies: existing top-down structures are used to provide training and services, while bottom-up initiatives from the research community are actively supported by offering the CDS’s expertise and facilities. An example of how bottom-up initiatives can blossom with the help of library structures such as the CDS is ReproHack. ReproHack – a reproducibility hackathon – is a grass-root initiative by young scholars with the goal of improving research reproducibility in three ways. First, hackathon attendees learn about reproducibility tools and challenges by reproducing published results and providing feedback to authors on their attempt. Second, authors can nominate their work and receive feedback on their reproducibility efforts. Third, the collaborative atmosphere helps building a community interested in making their own research reproducible. A first ReproHack in the Netherlands took place on November 30th, 2019, co-organised by the CDS at the LU Library with 44 participants from the fields of psychology, engineering, biomedicine, and computer science. For 19 papers, 24 feedback forms were returned and five papers were reported as successfully reproduced. Besides the researchers’ learning experience, the event led to recommendations on how to enhance research reproducibility. The ReproHack format therefore provides an opportunity for libraries to improve scientific reproducibility through community engagement.

Introduction. This study discusses Leiden University Library reference services through the KITLV-Jakarta. Since KITLV was acquired by the Leiden University Library, the KITLV-Jakarta Library which was a KITLV-Dutch representative, is now a representative of the Leiden University Library in Jakarta. 
 Data Collection Method. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive research involving observations and interviews as well as primary document data sources.
 Data Analysis. The data was analyzed by involving the process of data reduction, interpretation, and conclusion. 
 Results and Discussions. The results of the study indicate that reference services, particularly for reference collections found in the Leiden University Library cannot be accessed directly through the KITLV-Jakarta Library. Only KITLV librarians can request the reference service from Leiden University librarians.
 Conclusion. Librarians at the KITLV-Jakarta Library do not have the same access as librarians at the Leiden University Library, even though the KITLV-Jakarta Library is a representative of the Leiden University Library in Jakarta.

At Leiden University, it is increasingly recognised that effective data management forms an integral component of responsible research. To actively promote the stewardship of all the research data that are produced at Leiden University, a comprehensive, institution-wide programme was launched in 2015, which centrally aims to encourage its researchers to carefully plan the temporal storage, long-term preservation and potential reuse of their data. This programme, which is managed centrally by the Department of Academic Affairs, and which receives important contributions from academic staff, from Leiden University Libraries, and from the University’s central ICT organisation, basically consists of three parts. Firstly, a basic central policy has been formulated, containing clear guidelines for activities before, during and after research projects. The central aim of this institutional policy is to ensure that all Leiden-based research projects can effectively comply with the most common requirements stipulated by funding agencies, academic publishers, the Dutch standard evaluation protocol and the European data protection directive. As a second part of the data management programme, faculties have organised workshops and meetings, concentrating on the rationale and on the technical and organisational practicalities of effective data management in order to bring about a discipline-specific protocol. Data librarians employed by Leiden University Libraries have developed educational materials and provide training for PhDs in the principles and benefits of good data management. Thirdly, to ensure that scholars can genuinely make a reasoned selection among the many tools that are currently available, a central catalogue was developed which lists and characterises the most relevant data management services. The catalogue currently provides information about, amongst many other aspects, the organisations behind these services, the main academic disciplines which are targeted and the accepted file formats and metadata formats. The various aspects of these facilities have been classified using terminology provided by conceptual models developed by the UKDA, ANDS and the DCC. Using Leiden University’s policy guidelines as criteria, the overall suitability of each service has also been evaluated. Leiden University’s data management programme has a total duration of three years, and its basic objective is to offer a comprehensive form of support, in which the data management policy which is propagated centrally is complemented by various forms of assistance which ought to make it easier for scholars to adhere to this policy. The catalogue of data management services also aims to bolster the implementation of an adequate technical infrastructure, as the qualitative evaluations of the services enable policy-makers and developers to quickly establish gaps or other shortcomings within existing facilities.

Mir’at al-Tullab by Syeikh Abdul Rauf Singkel is one of the masterpieces in the history of Malay writing in Aceh. The work written in 1661 demonstrates knowledge of Shari’ah law including the subjects on commercial law, matrimonial law and criminal law. The major idea that runs through the whole work is that of the role of sultan and ulama in preserving Islamic laws of the state. The importance of Mir’at al-Tullab is reflected in the large number of manuscripts that are available. In spite of its importance, there is still a lack of studies of the work especially those based on several Jawi manuscripts that are known to exist in Leiden University Library. This article is a preliminary study of five manuscripts of Mir’at al-Tullab kept in the Special Collections, Leiden University Library, and to identify basic features of the Islamic laws in Aceh in the mid-seventeenth century based on the manuscripts. Mir’at al-Tullab portray an early example of the implementation of Islamic law in Aceh as to replace the adat law practices that existed before. Keywords: Mir’at al-Tullab, Syeikh Abdul Rauf Singkel, history of Malay, Islamic law, manuscripts

South-East Asia - E. p. Wieringa (comp.): Catalogue of Malay and Minangkabau manuscripts in the library of Leiden University and other collections in the Netherlands: volume one, comprising the acquisitions of Malay manuscripts in Leiden University Library up to the year 1896. Edited by Joan de Lijster-Streef and Jan Just Witkam. (Codices manuscripti, Bibliotheca Universitatis Leidensis, xxv.) 608 pp. Leiden:

As an addition to Laffan's recent discussion (2003:351-87) in this journal of lexical aids for J?w? students studying Arabic, I wish to draw attention to two more 'charts for the Arabic Ocean' which until recently remained hid den in the private library of a Dutch scholar. I am referring to the collection of manuscripts and printed books that once belonged to Guillaume Fr?d?ric Pijper (1893-1988).1 Before the Second World War, Pijper had been Assistant Adviser on Native Affairs (1931-1934; 1936-1937) and Adviser on Native Affairs (1937-1942). Unlike many of his less fortunate Dutch colleagues, he not only survived the hardships of the Japanese occupation, but also man aged to retrieve a considerable part of his looted library.2 When Pijper's widow passed away, in the course of 2003, this collection came up for auction, while the manuscripts were sold directly to the Library of Leiden University. Pijper's manuscripts (Arabic, Malay, Javanese and Sundanese), which he had given the serial numbers 1 to 19, are now kept in the Leiden University Library as Cod. Or. 26.316-26.335. His scholarly and administrative records and some other notes, mostly related to his work in Indonesia before the war and some having to do with his later duties as a professor in Amsterdam, were purchased by the Leiden University Library at Van Stockum's auction in The Hague on 13 November 2003, and are now registered as Cod. Or. 26.337. The Pijper collection furthermore consists of

Using university archives and library catalogues as well as letters and diaries belonging to the Schultens, a Dutch family that produced three generations of outstanding Arabists in the 18th Century, this article looks at the circumstances surrounding the purchase of some annotated dictionaries and manuscripts by Leiden University Library.

The nineteenth-century linguist Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk collected a large number of manuscripts in various Batak languages during his stay on the west coast of Sumatra. Since 1896 this collection has been kept as his legacy in Leiden University Library. The manuscripts on European paper in Van der Tuuk's collection are more personal than the manuscripts on tree-bark or bamboo, as they were produced at his request. The contents of these paper manuscripts cover a great variety of topics that reflect Van der Tuuk's wide interest. Among literary genres for Batak languages, stories are best represented in Van der Tuuk's collection. They also have received most attention from scholars, starting with Van der Tuuk himself who used them for his Batak reader. As an example, the author presents the beginning of a Dairi creation myth that is particularly interesting for the study of religion and folklore.Keywords: Batak languages; Dairi creation myth; Herman Neubronner van der Tuuk; Leiden University Library

It is well known that of the correspondence between Justus Lipsius and Michel de Montaigne only three letters have been preserved. They were written in Latin by Lipsius to the famous French philosopher in the course of the years 1588–1589 and included in his Epistolarum centuria altera , published by Franciscus Raphelengius in Leiden in 1590. The correspondence which interests author most is the one between Justus Lipsius and Montaigne’s spiritual foster-daughter, Marie Le Jars de Gournay. Her first letter to Lipsius is not preserved; it was written in 1588, perhaps at Montaigne’s suggestion, or because she was looking for another patron, who might help and encourage her with her literary studies and interest in Antiquity. The original letter is still preserved at Leiden University Library, ms. Lips. 4 (G) and was first edited by J.-F. Payen. Keywords: Epistolarum centuria altera ; Franciscus Raphelengius; Justus Lipsius; Leiden University Library; letter; Marie Le Jars de Gournay; Michel De Montaigne

This guest blog post has been written by Mieneke van der Salm, Information Specialist at Leiden University Libraries in the Netherlands and has been cross-posted from The Connected Leiden Researcher. On June 22, Leiden University Libraries (UBL) organised an information session on the Open Researcher and Contributor Identifier (ORCID) and its benefits and uses.

The greater part of the manuscripts (MSS) with texts in various Oriental languages, including Hebrew, Arabic, Persian, Turkish, Malay and Chinese, MSS Acad. 1 to 257, had belonged to the library of the orientalist Joannes Willmet. The manuscripts seem to have been acquired in the Netherlands, and a considerable number of them had previously belonged to other Dutch scholars. A substantial number of manuscripts, among them autographs and personal papers, had belonged to the German missionaries Stephan Schultz and Albert Friedrich Woltersdorf. Willmet's collection as a whole was eventually sold in auction in 1837 and bought by the King, Willem I, who in turn donated the collection to the Academy, then called ?Royal Dutch Institute'. The collection is kept on permanent loan in the Leiden University Library. The MSS discussed in this chapter includes the following: the Four Gospels; a miscellany; and commentary on the thirty-sixth chapter of the Koran.Keywords:Albert Friedrich Woltersdorf; Joannes Willmet; Leiden University Library; Royal Academy; Stephan Schultz

From the Eyries of Yemen to the Pastures of Holland: The Acquisition and Preservation of Yemeni Manuscripts at Leiden University Library was published in Yemeni Manuscript Cultures in Peril on page 485.

This article focuses on early photographs, snapshots, picture postcards and watercolours relating to Iran during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This material, which was collected by European entrepreneurs who travelled in Iran on business or for political reasons, is preserved in three archives in Leiden University Library's Eastern Collections. The author seeks to discover what kinds of micro-historic and artistic insights the material can provide concerning the photographers and collectors and with regard to the cultural and photographic histories of Iran at that time. I am grateful to Curator Dr Arnoud Vrolijk and to Former Curator Professor Dr J. J. Witkam for granting me access to Leiden University Library's Eastern Collections. Email for correspondence: Corien.Vuurman@han.nl

The University of Leiden came into existence barely five months after the relief of Leiden from besieging Spanish forces. It was Dousa and Domenicus Baudius, a former student at the university, who suggested that the French humanist Josephus Justus Scaliger be asked to come to Leiden. Except for the Hebrew manuscripts and printed books of the theological plutei, up until 1609, the University Library had only a few 'Eastern' works. The Scaliger legacy therefore, enriched the library with a large collection of non-Western books and manuscripts, along with some Greek and Latin manuscripts and two globes. Scaliger's bequest appears to have set a good example, for later in the seventeenth century, the Oriental books and manuscripts of Levinus Warner were added to the library's collections. Leiden University Library possesses an early inventory of the books and manuscripts from Scaliger's library that was drawn up by his colleague Bonaventura Vulcanius. Keywords: Domenicus Baudius; Hebrew manuscripts; Josephus Justus Scaliger; Latin manuscripts; Leiden University Library; Levinus Warner; Oriental books

In the late nineteenth and early twentieth century Dutch diplomats, scholars and travellers assembled unique collections in Jeddah, Mecca and Medina. The Dutch presence in Arabia, where they established a consulate in Jeddah, was intimately connected with the supervision of the annual pilgrimage to Mecca from the Netherlands East Indies, present-day Indonesia. Notable guests at this consulate included the formidable Dutch Islamicist Christiaan Snouck Hurgronje, visiting Arabia in 1884-1885. With the invaluable help of local Muslims, Dutch collectors tried to capture the essence of what they regarded as an ‘authentic’ Oriental culture in a period when Arabia was already looking towards modernity. These extensive collections are now preserved at the Leiden Museum of Ethnology and Leiden University Libraries. Together, they allow a glimpse into a colourful and vibrant society, one virtually vanished today under ever-growing numbers of pilgrims, changing political and religious allegiances and sudden economic prosperity.