The British Columbia Digital Library

Digital Library Collections By Subject: Dutch Texts

See also under Literature: General Works, and literature time periods.

• The Atlantic World: America and the Netherlands = De Atlantische Wereld: Amerika en Nederland. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress The Hague: National Library of the Netherlands and others. A Collaborative Digital Library, part of the Global Gateway section of the Library of Congress, this site " explores the history of the Dutch presence in America and the interactions between the United States and the Netherlands from Henry Hudson's 1609 voyage to the post-World War II period." Date accessed: 2003-11-20. Date added: 2003-11-21.
• De correspondentie van Willem van Oranje (The Correspondence of William of Orange (1533-1584)). Den Haag: Instituut voor Nederlandse Geschiedenis, 2005. A searchable, browsable database to nearly 13,000 pieces of correspondence collected from almost 200 archives inside and outside the Netherlands that pertain to the life of William of Orange who led a revolt against Philip II of Spain. The digitized letters are accessed as Adobe Acrobat PDF files that are optimized for at least Adobe Acrobat Reader version 6.0. Date accessed: 2005-04-15. Date added: 2005-04-15.
• Digitale bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse letteren (DBNL, Netherlands). Selected Dutch literature in HTML format from the medieval era to the 20th century.
• The Dutch Golden Age. Hosted by Rijksuniversiteit Leiden, Netherlands. Large-scale project using SGML/TEI-encoding for textual works to present Dutch literature and history of the 16th and 17th centuries.
• Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections. Hosted by Koninklijke Bibliotheek (National Library of the Netherlands). Summary: " This database contains descriptions of all medieval western manuscripts written in Latin script and produced up to c. 1550 now preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands. These include the collections of libraries, museums and archives, as well as the collections of monastic orders and some other private institutions that are open to researchers. There is no restriction concerning content: literary, historiographical, academic, hagiographical, and (para-)liturgical texts, artes texts, ego-documents etc. written in Latin or one of the Western European vernacular languages, all qualify for inclusion. Fragments of such manuscripts will only be included when this is feasible and useful: the text on the fragment has to be identified and/or the fragments should already be sufficiently catalogued as an object. Archival documents and letters are not recorded, except when they are part of a manuscript that does qualify for inclusion." Date accessed: 2007-09-23. Date added: 2007-09-23.

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