Some of the highlights include:

• The complete series of the magazine Der Clercke Cronike (1924-1972), predecessor of the UK.
• The Chinese fish collection, hand-painted illustrations of 300 types of fish from oriental seas and rivers (19^th century).
• Wittewierum Chronicle, or the Emo and Menko manuscripts, chronicling events at the 13^th-century Bloemhof monastery in Wittewierum.
• The Groningen Zutphen Maerlant manuscript, with Maerlant’s ‘Rijmbijbel’ and ‘Spiegel Historiael’.
• Manuscripts of the Groningen professor Mello Brunsema, first professor of Law.
• Johannes Siertsema’s and Klaas Willem Kiers’s alba amicorum (friendship books; 18^th century).
• Programmata (official announcements) of the University of Groningen.
• Historical maps from the Special Collections department.