Special Collections

Unique Acquisition: book of hours Selwerd

Reading Under a Beech Tree • Conversations with Theocritus

by Lou Kapsimali

Medieval Book of Hours donated to Special Collections

Mapping Empire: Decoding Blaeu’s Vision of India

New digital exhibiton by Shrila Kanth

Beyond the Map

Descriptions of the non-European World in Joan Blaeu’s Atlas Maior

Our humanist tradition began in Aduard

The Special Collections of the University Library of Groningen comprise, among others, collections of manuscripts, incunabula, papyri, printed works up to 1900, newspapers, pamphlets, bibliophile editions, letters, personal archives, historical atlases and maps.