Scope and Contents

Proceedings of a governing body in the Netherlands. These materials appear to be a scribe's record of the meetings of the organization. From analysing the language, paleography, and paper used in the documents, it has been surmised that the items were produced sometime in the seventeenth century.

Scope and Contents The materials were assembled under thematic guidelines. The manuscripts include official correspondence and letters as well as published political pamphlets, decrees, and broadsides. They cover the years 1526 to 1761 with most of the materials in two volumes dated within the 1660s. The issues treated are largely governmental, diplomatic, and political both on the national level and within the province of Zeeland but also include such materials as contracts of the Dutch East India Company...