Manuscripts

Belgium has been hiding a treasure for 600 years

The library of the Dukes of Burgundy is one of the finest manuscript collections of its time.

Belgium has been hiding a treasure for 600 years Six centuries ago, Brussels belonged to the […]

Many manuscripts aren’t available yet in the online catalogue. So when you’re searching for a manuscript you […]

Explore the 15th century in our region through the images, stories and characters from the Library of the Dukes of Burgundy.

The Main Collection is divided into four series and the Manuscript Department holds, in addition, a […]

This is the alphabetical list of external databases that KBR gives you access to. For an […]

For a significant part, the original core of the manuscript collection comes from the Library of the Dukes […]

KBR keeps approximately 35,000 manuscripts, including 4,500 medieval codices.