Scope and Contents

Een belangrijk deel van de portretcollectie bestaat uit de schilderijen in de Senaatskamer, de faculteitskamers en andere vertrekken van het Academiegebouw: ook wel aangeduid als de Collectie Icones Leidenses. Dit is het voor publiek meest zichtbare deel van de collectie.

Het meest omvangrijke deel echter, ongeveer 1600 stuks, wordt gevormd door de portretten in de Collectie Bodel Nijenhuis, een groep portretten op papier, verzameld door J.T. Bodel Nijenhuis.

De overige portretten, prenten en tekeningen, zijn afkomstig uit de collectie van het Prentenkabinet, een onderdeel van de Universiteitsbibliotheek.

Scope and Contents The collection of Bodel Nijenhuis is divided into: Collection of atlases Collection of maps Collection of manuscript maps, among which most of the manuscript charts in the Collection of the Dutch East India Company Collection of topographical prints and drawings Collection of portraits. The portraits of Leiden professors are part of the larger 'Collectie Portretten van Hoogleraren'. A third part of the maps, atlases and topographical prints concerns Dutch territory. About 3.000 maps are manuscripts. Half of the topographical prints and drawings concern the Netherlands. About 1500 are drawings. There are 1700 portraits of Leiden professors and directors, 13.000 portraits of Dutch nobility, clergymen, artists, scientists and other renowned people, and about 800 portraits of members of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. The COLLBN signature is also used for later acquisitions, including the Vossius...

Scope and Contents The collection of Bodel Nijenhuis is divided into: Collection of atlases Collection of maps Collection of manuscript maps, among which most of the manuscript charts in the Collection of the Dutch East India Company Collection of topographical prints and drawings Collection of portraits. The portraits of Leiden professors are part of the larger 'Collectie Portretten van Hoogleraren'. A third part of the maps, atlases and topographical prints concerns Dutch territory. About 3.000 maps are manuscripts. Half of the topographical prints and drawings concern the Netherlands. About 1500 are drawings. There are 1700 portraits of Leiden professors and directors, 13.000 portraits of Dutch nobility, clergymen, artists, scientists and other renowned people, and about 800 portraits of members of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. The COLLBN signature is also used for later acquisitions, including the Vossius...

Scope and Contents The collection of Bodel Nijenhuis is divided into: Collection of atlases Collection of maps Collection of manuscript maps, among which most of the manuscript charts in the Collection of the Dutch East India Company Collection of topographical prints and drawings Collection of portraits. The portraits of Leiden professors are part of the larger 'Collectie Portretten van Hoogleraren'. A third part of the maps, atlases and topographical prints concerns Dutch territory. About 3.000 maps are manuscripts. Half of the topographical prints and drawings concern the Netherlands. About 1500 are drawings. There are 1700 portraits of Leiden professors and directors, 13.000 portraits of Dutch nobility, clergymen, artists, scientists and other renowned people, and about 800 portraits of members of the Maatschappij der Nederlandse Letterkunde. The COLLBN signature is also used for later acquisitions, including the Vossius...