Subjects

  • Art History

    (4 Collections)

  • Asian Studies

    (6 Collections)

  • History

    (21 Collections)

  • Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

    (1 Collection)

  • Jewish Studies

    (6 Collections)

  • Middle East and Islamic Studies

    (10 Collections)

  • Religious Studies

    (7 Collections)

  • Slavic and Eurasian Studies

    (19 Collections)
Subjects

  • Art History

    (4 Collections)

  • Asian Studies

    (6 Collections)

  • History

    (21 Collections)

  • Human Rights and Humanitarian Law

    (1 Collection)

  • Jewish Studies

    (6 Collections)

  • Middle East and Islamic Studies

    (10 Collections)

  • Religious Studies

    (7 Collections)

  • Slavic and Eurasian Studies

    (19 Collections)
Collection in the spotlight

New releases December 2015

Middle Eastern Manuscripts Online 3: Arabic Manuscripts from the Hungarian Academy

This collection consists of 200 manuscripts with just over 300 works. In addition to 5 autographs, the highlights of the collection include: the earliest dated manuscript in the collection (Arab O. 013) a dated copy of a unique arrangement of a rare treatise written by al-Ṣāḥib Tāǧ al-Dīn (d. 707/1307) produced in the year of the author’s death; two rare Mamluk treatises on horsemanship (Arab F.2); and an anonymous compilation (Arab O. 027) about the lives of the outstanding men who lived in Medina in the 12th/18th century.

World Council of Churches Online: World War II Era Records

Collection of documents from a section of the World Council of Churches Archives, dealing with Germany and fifteen other countries during the period 1932-1957. Documents include: newspapers, press clippings, press releases, telegrams, correspondence, minutes, manuscripts and personal notes. The collection includes correspondence and personal letters of such notable individuals as Dietrich Bonhoeffer, George Bell, Hans Schönfeld, Karl Barth, James McDonald, Georges Casalis, Adolf Freudenberg, Martin Niemöller, Otto Dibelius, Gerhart Riegner, Marc Boegner, and Willem Adolf Visser 't Hooft. The archives document not only the issues and events of the War, but also the beginning years of the World Council of Churches.

New releases November 2015

Codices Vossiani Latini

The Codices Vossiani Latini Online publishes all 363 codices which form the world-famous Latin part of Vossius? manuscript collection held at Leiden University Library. The Codices Vossiani Latini count a large number of early medieval manuscripts (a whopping 76 Carolingian manuscripts dating from before 900), including major sources of many classic texts. The 363 codices in all comprise 40,278 openings, resulting in 84,266 images, including covers and flyleaves.

Human Rights Documents Online

Human Rights Documents Online (HRDO) will ultimately contain all human rights documents collected by the Human Rights Internet (HRI) in Ottawa in Canada since 1980. These documents emanate from 483 non-governmental human rights organizations (NGOs) worldwide, some of which have a universal scope, whilst others focus on the attainment of human rights in a specific area of the world.