The correspondence of Christofforo Suriano

Dataset

Description

Christofforo Suriano was the first Venetian envoy to the Dutch Republic. His arrival in The Hague marks the beginning of official Dutch-Venetian diplomatic relations. This digital edition presents all 725 letters sent by Suriano to the Venetian Senate between 1616 and 1623, totaling approximately 7,000 pages. His correspondence is of great importance for Dutch, Venetian, and European history in the first phase of the Thirty Years’ War.

This data set is the underlying data of https://edition.suriano.huygens.knaw.nl .
Next to the data is also the code, documentation and report of the conversion process, and a description of the original sources.
Those sources consist of transcriptions and scans, which reside elsewhere. The transcriptions are public, but the original scans may not be downloaded as a package.

However, this dataset contains low resolution versions of the scans.
And it contains a Text-Fabric interface on the corpus, which exposes text and lowres scans.
Date made available18 Oct 2024
PublisherZenodo
Temporal coverage01 Jan 1616 - 31 Dec 1623
Date of data production01 Jan 2020 - 18 Oct 2024
Geographical coverageNetherlands

Keywords

  • republic
  • correspondence
  • diplomacy

Dataset type

  • Analysed data
  • Processed data
  • Text-Fabric

    Roorda, D. (Developer), 23 Dec 2016

    Research output: Non-textual formSoftwareScientific

    Open Access

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