Leiden University Libraries Digital Collections

The collection contains more than 514 books on Dutch literature, including folk literature and fairy tales. G.J. Boekenoogen was particularly interested in editions of popular stories such as 'Floris en Blanchefleur', and ‘De vier Heems-kinderen’. He owned seventeen editions of ‘De historie van Genoveva , huisvrouw van Siegfried’, eighteen editions of ‘Een schoone historie van de verduldige Helena, van Constantinopolen’, and twenty-eight editions of ‘Tijl Uilenspiegel’. The collection also contains Boekenoogens probably unique collection of Dutch editions of fairy tales.