Dr. Michiel Verweij
Contact
Handschriftenkabinet (Manuscripts’
Department)
Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België (Royal Library of Belgium)
Tel. +32 2 519 57 86
Fax +32 2 519 57 95
e-mail Michiel Verweij
After
he read Classics at KULeuven and defended his PhD in 1993 (under supervision
of Jozef IJsewijn), Michiel Verweij was active in various projects, in Leuven,
Louvain-la-Neuve, Rome and Nijmegen (Netherlands). Since 7 June 2004, he
is a curator at the manuscripts’ department of the Royal Library of Belgium.
In 2002, 2003-04 and again in 2010 he was a guest professor at the KULeuven
(Latin grammar, History of Latin literature in the Middle Ages, Latin literature:
interpretation of post-classical authors).
His current research concerns Neo-Latin school drama, the Cranevelt correspondence
(385 autograph letters from the 1520s), the correspondence of Erasmus, Pope
Adrian VI and his Leuven circle of collaborators, the last pontifical singer
and composer from the Low Countries, Christiaan van der Ameijden (ca. 1530-1605),
the manuscript transmission of the Summa de virtutibus by Guillelmus
Peraldus (fl. 1250), manuscripts of Latin clasical authors in the collection
of the Royal Library of Belgium, humanist correspondence kept
in the Royal Library of Belgium, manuscripts from the library of the Dukes
of Burgundy.
Most significant Publications:
Vladeracci tres, pater et filii, poetae Latini Silvaeducenses (saec. XVI ex.), Academia Latinitati Fovendae, Bibliotheca scriptorum Latinorum, 2 (Romae, 1991 [immo: 1992])
‘Litterae ad Craneveldium Balduinianae. A Preliminary Edition. 3. Letters 56-85 (May-October 1521)’, edited by J.IJsewijn, D.Sacré, G.Tournoy and M.Verweij, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 43 (1994), 15-68
‘Litterae
ad Craneveldium. A Preliminary Edition.4. Letters 86-116 (November 1521-June
1522; April 1523; November 1528)’, edited by J.IJsewijn, D.Sacré, G.Tournoy
and M.Verweij, Humanistica
Lovaniensia, 44 (1995), 1-78.
‘Remarks on some so-called Erasmian correspondence’, Humanistica Lovaniensia,
46 (1997), 114-126
‘Franciscus Craneveldius and the three Leonardi of Bruges. A study in patronage’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 50 (2001), 143-159
Petrus Vladeraccus. Tobias (1598), edited with an introduction and commentary by Michiel Verweij, Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 17 (Leuven, 2001)
‘The last Netherlandish papal singer and composer in Rome. A biography of Christiaan van der Ameijden of Oirschot († 1605)’, Tijdschrift van de Koninklijke Vereniging voor Nederlandse Muziekgeschiedenis, 52 (2002), 132-158
‘Comic elements in 16th-century Latin school drama in the Low Countries’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 53 (2004), 175-190
‘Peraldus manuscripts in Sankt Gallen. A question of context’, Scriptorium. Revue internationale des études relatives aux manuscrits / International review of manuscript studies, 60 (2006), 107-123
‘The manuscript transmission of the Summa de virtutibus by Guillielmus Peraldus. A preliminary survey of the manuscripts’, Medioevo, 31 (2006), 103-296
‘Winnie the Pooh in Latin. Or how to put delightful English into equally enjoyable Latin’, Humanistica Lovaniensia, 57 (2008), 301-319
De paus uit de Lage Landen: Adrianus VI 1459-1523. Catalogus bij de tentoonstelling ter gelegenheid van het 550ste geboortejaar van Adriaan van Utrecht, onder redactie van M. Verweij, Supplementa Humanistica Lovaniensia 27 (Leuven, 2009), XVI + 424 p.