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A Hundred Digital Highlights
 
The Delft bible, the Blaeu atlas, sheet music in manuscript from
Willem Pijper and 97 other treasures of the Koninklijke Bibliotheek,
the National Library of the Netherlands, can now be admired on the
World Wide Web in a digital exhibition. This exhibition is based
on the book "A Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek",
published in 1994. It presents a selection of manuscripts, printed
works, book bindings, and specimens from the paper history
collection, with explanatory notes, mainly provided by staff of
the Department of Special Collections
 
Just like the version of the Highlights published in book form,
the digital "Highlights" can be browsed and provide an extensive
introduction and index. Moreover, the digital exhibition offers
you the opportunity of joining a number of selected guided tours.
If you are interested in the ways the Library's treasures on paper
or parchment were made, there are tours, for instance, of miniatures
in medieval manuscripts, modern typography, bookbindings and paper
making. For those interested in the contents of these works of art,
there are tours of literary, religious, historical, art historical
and other subjects.
 
In order to provide easy access, a small version of every image
(approx. 200 * 260 pixels) with the accompanying text is offered
first. Subsequently, you can get a screenwide display of the work
of art. These images are in JPEG-format and have been saved with
a quality factor of 75 %. The average file size of these images
is 120 kb (which is about 10 % of the original uncompressed TIFF-
images).
 
The digital version of the "Hundred Highlights from the Koninklijke
Bibliotheek", designed and made by J. van Mourik and M.C. de Niet,
staff members of the Library Research Department, can be found at:
 
http://www.konbib.nl/100hoogte/hh-en.html
 
The printed book can be purchased at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek
for DFL 59,50: "Honderd hoogtepunten uit de Koninklijke Bibliotheek
/ A hundred highlights from the Koninklijke Bibliotheek." Eds. W.
van Drimmelen, A. Leerintveld, T. Vermeulen & C. de Wolf. English
tr.: L. Croiset van Uchelen-Brouwer. Zwolle: Waanders Uitgevers,
1994. 223 p. Ill. ISBN: 90-6630-490-1 bound.