Collectie Gerardus van Papenbroeck

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Country: NL
Name of institution (English): Leiden University Libraries
Name of institution (official language of the state): Universitaire Biblotheken Leiden
Language of name of institution: dut
Contact information: postal address: Universiteitsbibliotheek, Witte Singel 27, 2311 BG Leiden
Contact information: phone number: 0031 71 527 2857
Contact information: web address: https://www.library.universiteitleiden.nl/
Contact information: email: Contact form
Reference number: PAP
Type of reference number: Archival reference number
Title (English): Gerardus van Papenbroeck Collection
Title (official language of the state): Collectie Gerardus van Papenbroeck
Language of title: dut
Creator / accumulator: Gerardus van Papenbroeck
Date(s): 1520/1743
Language(s): deu; dut; lat; spa
Extent: 23 manuscripts, 19 annotated prints
Type of material: Textual Material
Scope and content: This collection, accumulated by Gerard van Papenbroeck (1673-1743), contains hundreds of letters written by scholars, poets, and diplomats, such as Barlaeus, Brandt, Buchelius, Erasmus, Hugo de Groot, P.C. Hooft, Hoogerbeets, Van Oldenbarrnevelt, Salmasius, Spiegel, Uytenbogaert, and Vondel, including autographs by Maurice, Frederick Henry, and Louise de Coligny. The manuscripts include the alba amicorum of Reinoud van Brederode and J. van Broekhuizen, as well as manuscripts containing texts by Hooft, Vondel, and Hugo de Groot. The collection includes two letters from Menasseh Ben Israel (1604-1657) to Claudius Salmasius (1588-1653) in 1638 (PAP 2 and PAP 7). Both were published by Henry Méchoulan (1979).
Archival history: The collection was acquired as a bequest in 1743. Leiden University received all marbles (later the core collection of the Rijksmuseum van Oudheden in Leiden), 19 portraits, 23 manuscripts and 19 annotated prints. The library archives contain information on acquisition (BA1, inv. L 3 bis). The manuscripts were first described by Geel (1852) and later, in a more concise form, in the Catalogue compendiarius (1932).; (source: "Collection guide Gerardus van Papenbroeck Collection" on Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections)
Administrative / Biographical history: Gerard van Papenbroeck (1673-1743) was a merchant and art collector from Amsterdam. He used his wealth to build a unique collection that expressed his humanistic love for art and culture. He admired classical antiquity, but also those who had made its treasures available to modern people. This is particularly reflected in his extensive collection of portraits that includes a large number of modern scholars. The value he attached to the transmission of classical heritage is equally apparent in his interest in "modern" literature, and primarily that of his own country. As a bachelor, Van Papenbroek had no direct heirs. Thus, he ensured that his collections of manuscripts, portraits, and antiquities would not be sold and dispersed after his death. He bequeathed most of them to the universities of Amsterdam and Leiden.; (source: "Collection guide Gerardus van Papenbroeck Collection" on Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections)
Access points: locations: Amsterdam (Netherlands); Leiden (Netherlands)
Access points: persons, families: Israel, Menasseh ben (Manuel Dias Soeiro)
Access points: subject terms: Sephardim in the Netherlands; Humanism; Jewish history; Republic of Letters; 17th century
Access points: document types: Correspondence
Finding aids: Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. 1932. Vol. 1. Leiden: Brill.; Geel, Jacob. 1852. Catalogus librorum manuscriptorum qui inde ab anno 1741 bibliothecae Lugduno Batavae accesserunt. Leiden.
Links to finding aids: Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections
Author of the description: Carla Vieira, 2022
Published primary sources: Méchoulan, Henry. 1979. “Lorsque Saumaise Consultait Menasseh ben Israel: Deux Lettres Inedites du Rabbin d’Amsterdam a L’Humaniste de Leyde.” Studia Rosenthaliana 13 (1): 1–17.

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