Monthly Archives: January 2013

  The Ritman Library Newsletter no. 1/2013 – 31 JANUARY 2013     OUR WEBSITE   |   FACEBOOK   |   TWITTER   |   WEBSHOP  |  NEWSLETTER ARCHIVE Pearls of wisdom ~Freedom is absolutely necessary for the progress in science and the liberal arts~Spinoza VIDEO GUIDED TOUR ALCHEMY ON THE AMSTEL Alchemy Class University […]

Guided Tour Alchemy on the Amstel 13-12-2012 On 13 December 2012 the students of Peter Forshaw’s Alchemy Class were given a guided tour of the current exhibition Alchemy on the Amstel by curator Cis van Heertum and were then taken up to the ‘holy of holies’ to see highlights of the collection which were shown […]

Fireworks show: New year’s message of J.R. Ritman Watch the New Year’s Message by the founder of the Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica, Joost R. Ritman, and images of the fireworks show offered by The Ritman Library on Bloemgracht bridge at the foot of the Westertoren in Amsterdam every New Year’s Eve. There’s a new theme every […]

by Carla Henkel Looking out from the first floor reading room of the Ritman Library, you’ll spot a pelican perched on the facade of the building across the street. The image of a pelican nourishing its young from the blood of its breast can be used by alchemists to illustrate ideas related to sacrifice and […]

José Bouman (1953) studied Dutch language and literature, specialising in medieval literature and book history. After having finished her studies she completed a postgraduate academic librarianship course. From 1984-2011 she worked full-time as curator of the BPH’s rare books and manuscripts collection, initially under director Frans Janssen, later under director Esther Oosterwijk-Ritman. Since 2012 she […]

  The Ritman LIbrary Newsletter .         THE RITMAN LIBRARY NEWSLETTER – DECEMBER 2012    It is true, without a lie,   certain and most true,   that which is below is as that which is above, and that which is above is as that which is below, to perform the miracles […]