Missieven

Dataset

Description

The Generale Missiven is a collection of letters from governors of the VOC (Dutch East Indian Company) to the Heren 17, the council of the governors of the 17 provinces of the Netherlands, which was the effective government of the Low Countries at the time of the 17th and 18th century.

I converted a rough TEI version of these texts to a cleaner, but by no means clean(!), version in Text-Fabric. There are tutorials how to use this data and there is a simple export of the data to a tsv file.
Date made available01 Dec 2020
PublisherZenodo
Temporal coverage01 Jan 1610 - 31 Dec 2007
Date of data production01 Jan 1610 - 31 Dec 2007
Geographical coverageHolland, Indonesia, and much in between.

Keywords

  • VOC
  • republic
  • indonesia
  • text processing

Dataset type

  • Processed data

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