History of the Netherlands: Primary Documents

From EuroDocs

Jump to: navigation, search
Flag of the Netherlands
Flag of the Netherlands
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).
(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).

[edit]

Return to EuroDocs Homepage

EuroDocs Creator: Richard Hacken, European Studies Bibliographer,
Harold B. Lee Library, Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah, USA.
Feel free to get in touch: Hacken @ byu.edu

Retrieved from "http://eudocs.lib.byu.edu/index.php/History_of_the_Netherlands:_Primary_Documents"
Personal tools