Collection
Emblems in Print and Paint
Atalanta fugiens and a curious case of 17th-century applied art
Emblems in Print and Paint
About the library
The Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica and the House with the Heads are inseparably linked with Amsterdam and its history of tolerance, freedom of expression and freedom of the press.
About the library
Collecting areas
The library has a unique and still growing collection of 25,000 titles on Western spirituality and philosophy.
Collecting areas
Digital collection
Dan Brown has donated € 300,000 to digitize the core collection of some 4,600 ancient books.
Digital collection
The founder
The collection can be described as a reflection of man’s search for the meaning of his existence, a ‘treasure chamber of the human mind’.
The founder