Canadiana Bruxellensia: Two Canadian Manuscripts at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels

  • Michiel Verweij

Abstract

This article presents two documents on Canada, preserved in the Department of Manuscripts of the Royal Library of Belgium (Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België/Bibliothèque royale de Belgique) in Brussels. One is a personal notebook by a Major Henry Scott who visited Canada in 1886–1889; the other is a photo album presented to the participants in a journey through Canada following a congress of the British Medical Association in 1930.

 

RÉSUMÉ
Cet article présente deux documents relatifs au Canada, conservés dans le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque royale de Belgique (Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België), à Bruxelles. Le premier est le carnet personnel d’un Major Henry Scott, qui fit une visite au Canada en 1886–1887; l’autre est un album-photo présenté aux participants d’un voyage à travers le Canada, suite à un congrès de la British Medical Association en 1930.

Author Biography

Michiel Verweij
Michiel Verweij read Classics and Mediaeval Studies at the University of Leuven (Belgium). In 1993 he defended his Ph.D. on the subject of Neo-Latin literature. Afterwards he worked on various projects in Leuven (notably on Erasmus), Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium), and Nijmegen (Netherlands; inventory of ca. 400 medieval manuscripts containing the Summa de virtutibus by Guilielmus Peraldus). Since 1 June 2004 he has been on the scholarly staff of the Department of Manuscripts at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels. He has published several books and articles on Neo-Latin drama, Erasmian correspondence, mediaeval manuscripts, the humanist Petrus Vladeraccus (†1618), and the papal singer and composer Christianus van der Ameijden (†1605), as well as a guide for the S. Maria dell’Anima church in Rome.
Published
2006-09-25
How to Cite
Verweij, Michiel. 2006. “Canadiana Bruxellensia: Two Canadian Manuscripts at the Royal Library of Belgium in Brussels”. Archivaria 61 (September), 281-87. https://archivaria.ca/index.php/archivaria/article/view/12544.