Cis van Heertum

Clients (2011-)

• Allard Pierson, Amsterdam
• Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica
• Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen
• Eye Filmmuseum Amsterdam
• Grolier Club
• HES De Graaf Publishers
• Kasteel Huis Bergh
• Koninklijke Bibliotheek | The National Library of the Netherlands
• KNVV Uitgeverij | KNVV Publishing
• Leiden University Libraries
• Leiden University Press
• Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden
• Museum für ostasiatische Kunst, Cologne
• Museum Slager
• National Museum Boerhaave
• 99Uitgevers/Publishers
• Schloss Moyland, Bed-Hauburg
• Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD)
• Uitgeverij De Buitenkant
• Vereniging Het Spinozahuis
• Quaerendo. A quarterly journal from the Low Countries devoted to manuscripts and printed books
• Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe
• Zutot. Perspectives on Jewish culture

Recent Translations

• Frank van Lamoen, ‘They would be Heroes Just for the Last Day’ (on Johannes Rothé and his followers), in Three Worlds. The reception of Jacob Böhme in Central and Eastern Europe, the Netherlands and Britain, eds. Lucinda Martin and Cecilia Muratori together with Claudia Brink. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023
• Frank van Lamoen, ‘Jan Luyken’s Incompatible Desires of the Heart’, in Three Worlds. The reception of Jacob Böhme in Central and Eastern Europe, the Netherlands and Britain, eds. Lucinda Martin and Cecilia Muratori together with Claudia Brink. De Gruyter, Berlin, 2023
• Platform for the future 2 (2023), special issue on Antoni van Leeuwenhoek, Leiden: Rijksmuseum Boerhaave.
• Peter J. Forshaw, ‘In Beeld en Schrift: mediteren op de occulte wetenschappen in het Amphitheatrum Sapientiae Aeternae (1609) van Heinrich Khunrath’, in De Boekenwereld 38-2 (2022), pp. 12 – 19
• (with Jan Klerkx), Investigators, Inventors and Innovators. Five Centuries of Research and Innovation in the Netherlands. Zwolle: WBooks in association with Rijksmuseum Boerhaave, 2022
• Imagine Intuition exhibition brochure (five de Volkskrant interviews with Gerd Gigerenzer, Henkjan Honing, Birgit Meyer, Andrea Evers, Margje van de Wiel; artist texts by Jos Agasi, Bram Ellens, Janet Vollebregt, Lonneke Gordijn; poem by Senna Pauli; programme of activities), Museum De Lakenhal, Leiden 2022
• Frans A. Janssen, ‘Gaskell fifty years on’, in De Gulden Passer 99 (2021), no. 1
• Nelly Moerman, article on winter scenes by Salomon van Ruysdael: https://www.schaatshistorie.nl/english/skating-images/articles/salomon/
• Mathieu Lommen, Helmut Salden Uncovered 1:1. Amsterdam| The Hague: Bobby Books, 2020
• Frans A. Janssen, ‘The Library of Jacob de Wilde’, Quaerendo. A Journal Devoted to Manuscripts and Printed Books 50-4 (2020)
• Nelly Moerman, article on Adriaen van de Venne’s album with particular attention to winter scenes: https://www.schaatshistorie.nl/english/skating-images/articles/vdvenne/
• Nelly Moerman, article on the historical reliability of skating woodcuts: https://www.schaatshistorie.nl/english/skating-images/articles/the-past/
• Nelly Moerman, article on two paintings by Willem Bastiaan Tholen, https://www.schaatshistorie.nl/english/skating-images/articles/tholen/
• Ad Maas & Beto Pimentel, ‘How experiments drag on’, Scientific Instrument Society Bulletin, no. 143 (2019), pp. 38-43.
• Claudia Brink, Lucinda Martin & Cecilia Muratori, Oog voor de wereld. De visionaire denker Jacob Böhme. Dresden: SKD 2019
• Nelly Moerman, article on a painting by Caesar van Everdingen, https://www.schaatshistorie.nl/english/skating-images/articles/the-most-beautiful-painting-rijksmuseum/
• Nelly Moerman, articles on Rembrandt’s skating etchings and painting, 2019 
• Marita Mathijsen, ‘Jacob van Lennep’s Vondel edition: a tale of idealism, a bottomless well and shameless piracy’, Quaerendo, 49-2 (2019). pp. 91-118.
• Nelly Moerman, article on Lidwina of Schiedam woodcuts, 2019
• Roos Holleman & Alexander Reeuwijk. The Centre of Attention. Haarlem: 99 Uitgevers/Publishers 2019
• David Kromhout & Adri Offenberg. Hugo Grotius’s Remonstrantie of 1615. Facsimile, Transliteration, Modern Translations and Analysis. Leiden: Brill 2019
• Bas Verberk, Masked Warriors. The Battle Stage of the Samurai (introduction). Leiden: LUP 2017
• Voyage of Discovery; Exploring the Collections of the Asian Library at Leiden University Library, ed. Alexander Reeuwijk. Leiden: LUP 2017
• Laurence Aëgerter, Photographic Treatment. Stockport: Dewi Lewis Publishing 2017
• Alexander Reeuwijk. Happy Corner. Conversations with Redmond O’Hanlon. Haarlem: Korenmaat | Hof van Jan 2017
• Mathieu Lommen. Modernism: in print. Dutch graphic design 1917-2017. Exhibition, 16 June-1 October, Special Collections, University of Amsterdam 2017
• For Study and Delight. Prints and Drawings from Leiden University, eds Nelke Bartelings, Elmar Kolfin, Jef Schaeps. Leiden: LUP 2016
• Jip Binsbergen, Australische vogels doorJohn Gould en Jacques Grégoire, red. Alexander Reeuwijk. Zeist: KNNV Uitgeverij 2016
• Out of the Box. Exhibition, Special Collections, University of Amsterdam, ed. Sytze van der Veen. Nijmegen: Vantilt 2016
• Mathieu Lommen. Dutch Alphabets. Amsterdam: De Buitenkant Publishers 2016
• Arie van den Berg, ‘Who will not shudder to hear? Nineteenth-century street singers and their sources’, Quaerendo, 2015, vol. 45, 3-4, pp. 189-208
• Ad Maas, Ehrenfest! Illustrator by Fred de Heij. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2015
• Dirk van Delft, Einstein & Friends. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2015
• (with José Bouman) Goddelijke Wijsheid – Goddelijke Natuur. De boodschap van de Rozenkruisersmanifesten in de beeldtaal van de zeventiende eeuw. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2015
• A Wealth of Waste. Exhibition texts. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2015
• Foodtopia. Exhibition texts. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2015
• I spy with my little eye. Exhibition texts. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2014
• Rietje van Vliet, Elie Luzac. Bookseller of the Enlightenment. Enschede: AFdH Uitgevers 2014
• Saint Anne – Image and Worship. The Liberna at the Draiflessen Collection. Mettingen: The Draiflessen Collection 2014
• Hit & Run. Ed van der Elsken’s photographs of Philips’ Natlab. Exhibition guide. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2014
• Divine Wisdom – Divine Nature. The Message of the Rosicrucian Manifestoes in the Visual Language of the Seventeenth Century. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2014
• Great Books on Horsemanship. Bibliotheca Hippologica Johan Dejager, ed. and comp. by Koert van der Horst. Houten: HES & De Graaf Publishers 2014
• Golden Ages in Arabia and Holland. Exhibition guide. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2014
• Mapping Spaces. Networks of Knowledge in the Landscape Art of the 17th Century. Exhibition catalogue ZKM 2014
• Marieke van Delft, ‘Special Collections in the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National library of the Netherlands’ in Special issue of Archives et Bibliothèques de Belgique, 2013, 84, pp. 95-112.
• 100 JAAR UITVINDINGEN, Made by Philips Research. Exhibition texts. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2013
• Amazing models (exhibition). Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2013
• Vindingrijk. On the collections of Christiaan Huygens. Exhibition texts. Leiden: Museum Boerhaave 2013
• Marks and Monograms. The Liberna at the Draiflessen Collection. Metttingen: Draiflessen Collection 2013
• Anne S. Korteweg, Catalogue of medieval manuscripts and incunabula at Huis Bergh Castle in ‘s-Heerenbergh (introductory essays by Anne S. Korteweg, Klara Broekhuijsen and Gabriëlle van den Berg). ‘s-Heerenberg: Stichting Huis Bergh, 2013
• Ina Kok, Woodcuts in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries. Houten: Hes & De Graaf publishers 2013
• Articles by Harold J. Cook, Anne Goldgar and Claudia Swan, in Bloeiende kennis. Groene ontdekkingen in de Gouden Eeuw, ed. Esther van Gelder. Hilversum: Verloren 2012
• The Beauty of Precision. A fascinating look at Book Art and Graphics with the Liberna Collection. Mettingen: Draiflessen Collection 2012
• Helen Wüstefeld,‘Clavicula Salomonis in the Kalverstraat, or Jacob Cornelisz van Oostsanen’s Witch of Endor Revisited’, in: R. de Weijert, K. Ragetli, A.J. Bijsterveld andJ. van Arenthals (eds), Living Memoria. Studies in Medieval and Early Modern Memorial Culture in Honour of Truus van Bueren. Hilversum: Verloren 2011, pp. 347-363.

Exhibition Catalogues 

• Advocate of Free Thought. Adriaan Koerbagh (1633-1669). Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2021
• Alchemy on the Amstel. On hermetic medicine | Alchemie aan de Amstel. Over hermetische geneeskunst (comp.), Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2012
• Libertas philosophandi. Spinoza als gids voor een vrije wereld (ed.), Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2008
• Philosophia symbolica. Johannes Reuchlin and the Kabbalah (comp.), Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2005

Works Edited (2000-)

• Bas Verberk, Yoshitoshi. One Hundred Aspects of the Moon. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Franz und Walther König 2021
  Sebastian Castellio, Annotationes in Pauli epistulam ad Romanos ex Cap.IX. Critical edition and English translation by Michiel Op de Coul & Mirjam van Veen. Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance 164. Geneva: Librairie Droz 2020
• Ad Maas, ‘Johan Rudolph Thorbecke’s Revenge: Objectivity and the Rise of the Dutch Nation State’, in Epistemic Virtues in the Sciences and the Humanities, eds Jeroen van Dongen and Herman Paul. Cham: Springer International publishing 2017, 173-193
• Bas Jacobs, Typographic Tourist Guide of Amsterdam. Amsterdam: De Buitenkant Publishers 2017
• Novo Typo Color Book. Designed and edited by Mark van Wageningen. With a preface by Gerard Unger. Amsterdam: De Buitenkant Publishers 2017
• Anne Troelstra, Bibliography of Natural History Travel Narratives. Zeist: KNVV Publishing 2016
• Roelof van den Broek & Gilles Quispel. Hermetische geschriften. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2016
• (with José Bouman) Goddelijke wijsheid – Goddelijke Natuur. De boodschap van de Rozenkruisersmanifesten in de beeldtaal van de zeventiende eeuw. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2015
• Dirk Imhof. Jan Moretus I. A bibliography of his editions. Leiden: Brill, Houten: HES De Graaf Publishers 2014.
• (with José Bouman) Divine Wisdom – Divine Nature. The Message of the Rosicrucian Manifestoes in the Visual Language of the Seventeenth Century. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2014
• (with José Bouman) Göttliche Weisheit – Göttliche Natur. Die Botschaft der Rosenkeruezer-Manifeste in der Bildsprache des 17. Jahrhunderts. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2014
• De hemel zo wijd – langs de Rijn – landschappen tussen Düsseldorf en Rhenen. Bedburg-Hau: Stiftung Museum Schloss Moyland 2014
• Macht heimat! … ein experimentelles Künstler- und Ausstellungsprojekt in der Draiflessen Collection. Metttingen: Draiflessen Collection 2013
• Merken en monogrammen. Liberna in de Draiflessen Collection 1|2013. Metttingen: Draiflessen Collection 2013
• Over de schoonheid van precisie:  een fascinerende kijk op boekkunst en grafiek met de Liberna Collection, red. Cis van Heertum. Mettingen: Draiflessen Collection 2012
• Spinoza im Kontext. Voraussetzungen, Werk und Wirken eines radikalen Denkers, eds Frank Grunert & Cis van Heertum. Halle: Mitteldeutscher Verlag 2010
• Roelof van den Broek, Gnosis in de Oudheid. Nag Hammadi in context. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2010
• Roelof van den Broek, Hermes Trismegistus. Inleiding, Teksten, Commentaren. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2006
• Gilles Quispel, Het Evangelie van Thomas. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2004
• Gilles Quispel, Valentinus de gnosticus en zijn Evangelie der Waarheid. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2003
• Magia, alchimia, scienza dal ’400 al ’700 | Magic, alchemy and science 15th-18th centuries, eds Carlos Gilly & Cis van Heertum. Florence: Centro Di 2002
• From Poimandres to Jacob Böhme: Gnosis, Hermetism and the Christian Tradition, eds Roelof van den Broek & Cis van Heertum. Amsterdam: In de Pelikaan 2000