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(November 2019)
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See also:
- news letter 2019 August
- news letter 2018
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- Access to Asian Archives
- ANP news item on the launching of DASA website
- Center for Early Modern History
- Knowledge Institution Digital Culture
- Dutch historians website
- Historici.nl article about the Dutch Archives
- Historical Society Noordoost-friesland
- International Institute for Asian Studies
- Dutch Maritime Portal
- VOC website
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- Trouw Newspaper
- Computable
More News
- February 2019: Commemoration battle of the Java Sea 1942
- February 2019: Diplomatic Letters presented to the Embassy of Thailand
- January 2019: Senshi Sōsho 26 Editor's Choice Award 2018
- October 2018: Thai version realized of the Diplomatic Letters publication
- September 2018: Publication Second Senshi Sōsho volume
- August 2018: Map collectie de Haan online
- Save the Date: 24 sept. 2018 - presenting Senshi Sōsho volume 26
- February 2018: Glossary VOC Indonesia published
- October 2017: Digital publication of the first volume of the Corpus Diplomaticum
- June 2017: Continued collaboration with Leiden University
November 2019: Four volumes 'Priangan' digital available
Following the rescanning and digital online publication of the three volumes of 'Oud Batavia' by F. de Haan (see earlier news item, october), The Corts Foundation decided to also publish the preceding standard work of 'Priangan'. These four volumes were produced by de Haan between 1910 and 1912 when at the time he was the national archivist in the Dutch East Indies.
His assignment was to conduct 'a historical research to the origin and the development, the working and the consequences of the organization of Preager regents by the Dutch East India Company'. Geografically speaking it concerns the central part of Java, where Batavia (Jakarta) was situated, and that was controlled and managed by the Dutch with regents.
All four original volumes of 'Priangan' were rescanned (including OCR-text recognition) and made fully digital visible and searchable on this website. Each volume is in a separate PDF file format shown online and freely available as download.
VOLUME 1 (1910, 896 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 30mb]
VOLUME 2 (1911, 937 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 35mb]
VOLUME 3 (1912, 993 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 39mb]
VOLUME 4 (1912, 1045 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 40mb]
October 2019: Three volumes 'Oud Batavia' available online
This year four hundred years ago Batavia (and thus also Jakarta) was recorded on the world map. A historical event that can be heavily debated. About how it came about and the circumstances under which it happened. About the consequences for world trade, monopolism, colonialism and the realization of the Republic of Indonesia.
Fact is that 1619 marked a moment in the history of Indonesia. A moment that was commemorated three hundred years later (in 1919) with the publication of the three volumes series called 'Oud Batavia' by the Dutch 'Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen'. The first edition of this series was published in 1922, the second edited edition in 1935.
The 1922 edition has been rescanned (including OCR text recognition) and made available and full text searchable by The Corts Foundation, and published here on this website. Each volume separately is shown in PDF format and freely downloadable.
VOL. 1 (1922, 567 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 14mb]
VOL. 2 (1922, 415 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 11mb]
VOL. 3 (1923, 348 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 41mb]
Example of the online viewer:
July 2019: Corpus Diplomaticum digital online
The Corpus Diplomaticum Neerlando-Indicum comprises six volumes, and was published between 1907 and 1955 by Mr J.E. Heeres and Dr F.W. Stapel at the Koninklijk Instituut voor Taal-, Land- en Volkenkunde (KITLV). These volumes contain a representative collection of political contracts and treaties concluded by the Dutch in Asia and permits granted to them.
For the first time these volumes have been scanned and published online by The Corts Foundation together with a searchable database of all the 1193 contracts and indexes on persons and places. Each volume separately has such indexes, but all the indexes are now combined together to give full access to all six volumes. Thousands of persons and places are named in these indexes and together form a valuable source for historians and other researchers.
All the scans, database and indexes can be accessed on the Indonesian website of sejarah-nusantara.
The open data of this publication can be downloaded from the DASA project page.
UPDATE November 2019:
The six volumes are republished on this website by The Corts Foundation in PDF format including OCR text recognition. In this way the Corpus Diplomaticum is fully text searchable and the volumes are also freely available as download.
VOLUME 1 (1907, 612 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 15mb]
VOLUME 2 (1931, 639 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 17mb]
VOLUME 3 (1934, 625 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 16mb]
VOLUME 4 (1935, 617 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 15mb]
VOLUME 5 (1938, 644 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 35mb]
VOLUME 6 (1955, 754 pages) - [Open online viewer] [PDF - 26mb]
April 2019: Visit and presentation Japanese Embassy Tokyo
The Ambassador of The Netherlands in Tokyo generously hosted the Corts Foundation on April 4, 2019. Final editor dr. W.G.J. Remmelink presented his second Senshi Sōsho volume no. 26: “The Operations of the Navy in the Dutch East Indies and the Bay of Bengal” on a well visited reception for an attentive listening audience.
Sejarah Nusantara
The Corts Foundation and the Arsip Nasional Republik Indonesia proudly present a website, in both English and Indonesian language, that shows thousands of handwritten pages of the Dutch 17th and 18th century archives, inventories and searchable databases. This website focusses on a worldwide audience of people interested in the history of the Indonesian archipelago hidden as treasures in these old documents.
Visit the website of
www.sejarah-nusantara.anri.go.id
and start exploring ...
Welcome
The 'Philippus Corts Foundation' is a Dutch foundation known outside the Netherlands as 'The Corts Foundation'.
The foundation started in 2003 with the legacy capital of Kees Corts. His interest in the former Dutch East Indies and Indonesian history led to the support of many interesting projects in the past years.
History
C.W. Corts MSc was born on 24 May 1920 into a Dutch family living in Sumatra, where his father practiced medicine. In 1939 Kees Corts returned to the Netherlands for his tertiary education with his parents and younger brother, Philip. World War II proved to be a tragedy for the family, as Philip was executed during the occupation of the Netherlands.
Mission and Vision
The vision of The Corts Foundation is to make an important contribution to the preservation and dissemination of documentary heritage in the field of the History of World War II and Asian-European Relations so as to safeguard information on common and national history.
The foundation focusses on four areas of interest.
Organization
The 'Philippus Corts Stichting', working abroad as 'The Corts Foundation', aims to contribute to the preservation of the Dutch past in Eastern and South-East Asia. To accomplish this goal, the foundation works on two projects at the moment: “sustainable digital preservation of VOC-archives in Jakarta” and “translation of Japanese sources about the war in the former Dutch East Indies”.
