Our sponsors
We are a non-profit journal, aiming to provide a platform for our students to publish their best work. To help keep our prices low and to provide free copies for the authors and the student-editors, we are very kindly being sponsored by the parties listed below, all directly connected to the fields of art history and book/journal publication.
Japan Museum SieboldHuis
Besides temporary exhibitions on topics related to Japan, the permanent collection of the Sieboldhuis offers prints, lacquerware, ceramics, fossils, herbaria, prepared animals, coins, clothing, ancient maps and hundreds of other treasures, collected in Japan between 1823 and 1829 by the physician Philipp Franz von Siebold.
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Leiden University cooperates closely with the SieboldHuis and has strong ties with Japan. The university has a Japanese language and culture department and houses important Japanese collections at several academic institutions, originally brought to Leiden by Siebold or compiled by him later.
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From March 28 until December 7 2025 the museum will host the temporary exhibition "Anaïs López - the Turtle and the Monk".
Museum De Lakenhal
Museum De Lakenhal is the visual arts, history and crafts museum of the city of Leiden. The museum is housed in the former Leiden Cloth Hall, a building that dates back to 1640. The collection includes highlights by old masters such as Lucas van Leyden, Rembrandt van Rijn and Jan Steen, alongside works by modern and contemporary artists such as Theo van Doesburg, Charley Toorop and Erwin Olaf. Leiden's illustrious past is covered in collection presentations such as The Siege and Relief of Leiden (1574) and Seven Centuries of Leiden Cloth.
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From 12 April until 24 August 2025 the museum will host the exhibition "Floris Verster - At home in nature". Admire the lively floral still life paintings of artist Floris Verster (1861) in combination with contemporary art. An ecological perspective is used to throw a whole new light on the collection.
Burgersdijk & Niermans
auctioneers of books and prints
Burgersdijk en Niermans are housed in a classic 18th century building in the old center of Leiden, on the corner of two alleys and at the foot of the Pieterskerk. They are an auction house for books, prints, manuscripts and everything that has to do with the book in the broadest sense. Once the famous fourteenth-century lawyer and book collector Philips van Leyden was housed here; because of the wisdom in books collected here by him, the house is still called "Templum Salomonis" to this day.
Since 1894 traditional auctions have been organized in the building, now twice a year, usually in May and November.
The daily management is in the hands of enthusiastic book lovers who run this company with great pleasure. They have years of experience in the auction industry and the book trade and know the world of the antiquarian book through and through. Whether you sell or buy, they make every effort to professionally guide your transactions.
A full history of the building and the auction house, as well as an overview of the current catalogues and upcoming auctions can be found here.
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De Gruyter Brill - Over three centuries of scholarly publishing
Founded in Leiden, the home of the
oldest Dutch university, in 1683 during
the golden age of Dutch history and
culture, Brill has had a rich and varied
publishing history, including, among other notable works, the publication of Bayle’s influential Dictionnaire Historique et Critique and the Nag Hammadi codices for UNESCO, as well as the Encyclopedia of Islam and the inception of one of the first scholarly journals in Chinese studies, T’oung Pao.
In neighbouring Prussia, after Frederick the Great granted the bookstore of the Königliche Realschule the permission to print and publish books in 1749, a businessman named Andreas Reimer took over and built a flourishing academic publishing business. In 1894, businessman and German philologist Walter de Gruyter joined the operation. Just three years later he acquired the business. Soon after merging Reimer with four other esteemed academic publishers, De Gruyter became one of the leading publishing houses in the humanities, social sciences, and beyond.