Melinda Kónya Russian-Dutch Relations

Four Centuries of Russian-Dutch Relations in the National Library of the Netherlands

Melinda Kónya, October 2013

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Medieval illuminated manuscripts

• Circa 1100 medieval manuscripts, about 400 of them richly illuminated

• Extensive collection of Middle Dutch manuscripts

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Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia(France, c. 1470): Simon de Hesdin presents his translation to Charles V

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Plutarch, Vita Scipionis(France, c. 1510)

Scipio and Hasdrubal before Syphax,King of the Numidians

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Modern manuscript collection

• 5.000 manuscripts, including 770 alba amicorum

• 130.000 letters

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Frans Hals,

Marriage portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen

1622

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Album amicorum Isaac Massa, 1616-1632Michael I Fjodorovitsj Romanov on his throne

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Album amicorum Isaac Massa, 1616-1632

Moscow city plan of 1618

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Drawing by Tsar Peter, 1697, explaining the battle and siege of Azov of 1696 to the Secretary of Haarlem, Johan Steyn

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Autograph of Tsar Peter

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C. A. Geisweit van der Netten(1771-1847),

Recollections of the Campaign of 1812, captivity and journey in Russia and Poland in 1813-1814

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C. A. Geisweit van der Netten, Moscow

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C.A. Geisweit van der Netten,

Russian traditional costumes

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Early printed books until 1801

• 160.000 early printed books• incunabula, occasional verse,

songbooks, atlases, pamphlets, illustrated books

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Cornelis de Bruijn

(c. 1652-1727),

Journeys by way of

Muscovy, through

Persia and India

Amsterdam, 1711

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Portrait of

Cornelis de Bruijn

(c. 1652-1727)

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Castle of Moscow

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Cornelis de Bruijn,

A Russian woman

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The Old Testament:

published

on behalf of

His Majesty Tsar

Peter The First,

Emperor of Russia

(Amsterdam, 1721)

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The Old Testament

Half empty pages,

the Russian

translation has

not been printed

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Albertus Seba

(1665-1736),

Locupletissimi rerum

naturalium thesauri

accurata descriptio

(Amsterdam,

1734-1765)

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Portrait of

Albertus Seba

(1665-1736)

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Albertus Seba,

Illustration from

his famous cabinet

of curiosities

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Chess and draughts collection

• 27.481 chess books• 2.666 chess magazines• 3.893 draughts books• 710 draughts magazines

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The first Russian book about chess compositions of Schoumoff(St. Petersburg, 1867)

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Poster of Spartakiade, Kiev, 1965

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Bibliophile and special editions

• Bibliophile and private press editions• Artists’ books• Limited editions

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Tristan Tzara, Le fruit permis, illustrated by Sonia Delaunay

(Paris, 1956)

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Tristan Tsara,

Sonia Delaunay,

Le fruit permis

‘pochoir technique’

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Children’s books

• 188.000 titles• 495 Russian children’s books

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Russian children’s

picture books

(The Hague, c. 1928)

The golden leaves

The happy storm

Animals in the winter

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The golden leaves

Russian children’s

picture books

Animals in the winter

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The golden leaves

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Animals in the winter

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Nienke van Hichtum,

Russian fairy tales,

illustrated by

Rie Cramer

(The Hague, 1975)

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Nienke van Hichtum,

Russian fairy tales,

illustrated by

Rie Cramer

(The Hague, 1975)

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The Netherlands deposit collection

• Established in 1974• Printed and digital publications of the

Netherlands

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Cees Willemsen Collection: dedication copies

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Cees Willemsen Collection: translations

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Vladimir Sorokin, The queue (Ochered)

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