History of the Netherlands: Primary Documents
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- Portal to a database with uniform descriptions and photographs of medieval manuscripts in the Netherlands.
- Sources for the History of the Medieval (Germanic) Empire -- Early, High and Late Middle Ages.
- Includes the Hanseatic League.
- (800 - 1503; Latin and contemporary German transcriptions with critical apparatus)
- The Frisian book of law, written at the time of Charlemagne
- (Ninth century; Latin transcriptions and Dutch translations).
- Medieval and early modern Frisian agrarian law
- (1275-1550; Latin and Frisian-language facsimiles of 17 manuscripts)
- A manuscript discovered (copied?, manufactured?) in the 19th century, purporting to relate early history of the Frisians.
- (Beware: questionable provenance; Frisian rune facsimiles)
- Accessible by browsing or by advanced search protocols
- Over 12,000 letters digitized by the Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis
- (1551-1584, facsimiles of letters in various languages, mostly Dutch and French).
- The so-called "Dutch Declaration of Independence" in the original Dutch and in synoptic English translation
- Another English translation is available through the Modern History Sourcebook.
- Warning: both English translations above are incomplete; certain sections have not been included.)
- (26 July 1581; Dutch transcriptions and English translations).
- Including encounters with "los rebeldes de las islas de Holanda y Zelanda"
- (1592-1597, facsimiles of originals in BYU Special Collections).
- regarding Spain's economic warfare against the Dutch rebels.
- (1580-1630; Spanish and Basque transcriptions and facsimiles)
- (1621; English translation)
- The Tulip Book of P. Cos, including weights and prices from the years of speculative tulip mania.
- (1637; photo facsimiles in GIF or JPEG format)
- Historical Legal Sources from the Low Countries
- (1292 to the present; Flemish/Dutch transcriptions, facsimiles and maps)
- Significant Resource!
- A set of historical maps from Dr. Ronnie Ellenblum's Historic Cities
- (Facsimiles).
- Aan het Volk van Nederland!, a pamphlet that led to Dutch patriotic revolt
- (1781; Dutch transcription).
- Selected excerpts are also available in English translation:To the People of the Netherlands!
- Including constitutional origins, treaties, maps and other documents.
- (1795-1806; Dutch transcriptions and facsimiles under "Documents").
- An excerpt from the writings of William Temple, British ambassador to the Netherlands
- (1814; English translation).
- Including the correspondence of J. R. Thorbecke and of Groen van Prinsterer.
- (1848-1870; Dutch transcriptions under "Documents").
- (pre-1914 - post-1918; translations and transcriptions)
- Major Resource
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (1914-1918; transcriptions and translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1914-1919; translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1918-1941; translations)
- A collection of primary documents from the Internet Modern History Sourcebook.
- (1939-1945; transcriptions and translations)
- A collection of documents related to WWII.
- From the Avalon Project.
- Official (mainly U.S.) government histories, source documents, and other primary references.
- (1939-1945; English transcriptions and translations)
- Digital primary documents assembled at Mount Holyoke College.
- (1938-1945; translations)
- A collection of links to historic Dutch newspapers.
- (17th to 20th centuries; facsimiles)
- click on opened newspaper pages for enlargement icons.
- Digitised pages from four Dutch newspapers from the period 1910-1945
- (het Centrum, de Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant (NRC), het Vaderland, and het Volk)
- Various publications.
- (1940-1945; photo facsimiles)
- (1) Dutch Constitution.
- (2) Statute of relationship between the Netherlands, the Dutch Antilles, and Aruba.
- (With updates through 2006; transcriptions in PDF file)
- (English translations and excerpts, plus Dutch version from 24 August 1815)
- Library of Congress guide to constitutional, legal and government documents.
- Websites from a consortium of Dutch dataset providers
- With access to census lists and other vital data -- Further datasets available for order on CD-ROM --
- (Facsimiles and transcriptions in searchable databases)
- Digital History Library for Friesland, containing scores of printed sources for Frisian history.
- Including the Netherlands' earliest newspaper, De Vrije Fries (1839 - 1929)
- (18th century to present; Frisian and Dutch facsimiles)
- Another digital collection of Frisian historical materials, ranging from atlas and photos to manuscripts and letters.
- (Medieval to present; Frisian and Dutch facsimiles)
- Historical images from the Regional History Century at Tilburg.
- Digitization projects in the Netherlands, a list compiled by Klaus Graf.
- Scroll down to "Niederlande."
- (Facsimiles).
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Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
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