The correspondence of Christofforo Suriano

Dataset

Beschrijving

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.
Datum van beschikbaarheid18 okt. 2024
UitgeverZenodo
Tijdelijke dekking01 jan. 1616 - 31 dec. 1623
Datum van data-aanmaak01 jan. 2020 - 18 okt. 2024
Geografische dekkingNetherlands

Dataset type

  • Geanalyseerde data
  • Verwerkte data
  • Text-Fabric

    Roorda, D. (Ontwikkelaar), 23 dec. 2016

    Onderzoeksoutput: Niet-tekstuele vormSoftwareWetenschappelijk

    Open Access

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