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Melinda Kónya Russian-Dutch Relations

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

Melinda Kónya, October 2013

Russian-Dutch Relations Melinda Kónya

Medieval illuminated manuscripts

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

• Extensive collection of Middle Dutch manuscripts


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


Plutarch, Vita Scipionis(France, c. 1510)

Scipio and Hasdrubal before Syphax,King of the Numidians


Modern manuscript collection

• 5.000 manuscripts, including 770 alba amicorum

• 130.000 letters


Frans Hals,

Marriage portrait of Isaac Massa and Beatrix van der Laen

1622


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


Album amicorum Isaac Massa, 1616-1632

Moscow city plan of 1618


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


Autograph of Tsar Peter


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

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


C. A. Geisweit van der Netten, Moscow


C.A. Geisweit van der Netten,

Russian traditional costumes


Early printed books until 1801

• 160.000 early printed books• incunabula, occasional verse,

songbooks, atlases, pamphlets, illustrated books


Cornelis de Bruijn

(c. 1652-1727),

Journeys by way of

Muscovy, through

Persia and India

Amsterdam, 1711


Portrait of

Cornelis de Bruijn

(c. 1652-1727)


Castle of Moscow


Cornelis de Bruijn,

A Russian woman


The Old Testament:

published

on behalf of

His Majesty Tsar

Peter The First,

Emperor of Russia

(Amsterdam, 1721)


The Old Testament

Half empty pages,

the Russian

translation has

not been printed


Albertus Seba

(1665-1736),

Locupletissimi rerum

naturalium thesauri

accurata descriptio

(Amsterdam,

1734-1765)


Portrait of

Albertus Seba

(1665-1736)


Albertus Seba,

Illustration from

his famous cabinet

of curiosities


Chess and draughts collection

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


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


Poster of Spartakiade, Kiev, 1965


Bibliophile and special editions

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


Tristan Tzara, Le fruit permis, illustrated by Sonia Delaunay

(Paris, 1956)


Tristan Tsara,

Sonia Delaunay,

Le fruit permis

‘pochoir technique’


Children’s books

• 188.000 titles• 495 Russian children’s books


Russian children’s

picture books

(The Hague, c. 1928)

The golden leaves

The happy storm

Animals in the winter


The golden leaves

Russian children’s

picture books



The golden leaves


Nienke van Hichtum,

Russian fairy tales,

illustrated by

Rie Cramer

(The Hague, 1975)


The Netherlands deposit collection

• Established in 1974• Printed and digital publications of the

Netherlands


Cees Willemsen Collection: dedication copies


Cees Willemsen Collection: translations


Vladimir Sorokin, The queue (Ochered)


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