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=Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts (open data set)=

Over 11,000 illuminations (illustrations and decorations) from 400 medieval manuscripts

Contents of the sets
The set Medieval Illuminated Manuscripts consists of two subsets:


 * The BYVANCK set describes each of the 400 manuscripts. There is information on the creator, materiaal, language, place of origin, number of folios, physical dimensions and date of each manuscript: the type of information you see on this page. This set represents about 15% of all the illuminated manuscripts currently preserved in the Netherlands. Overall descriptions of the KB’s part of this set are available here.
 * The ByvanckB set contains photographs of the 11,141 illuminations in these 400 manuscripts and descriptions explaining the images: the dimensions of the image, the type of illumination, the creator, subjects illustrated (according to the Iconclass classification) etc. See, for example, the information on these illustrations. The illuminations come in many forms: painted miniatures, drawings, historiated initials, marginalia, etc. The set contains illuminations from classics of Dutch cultural history such as:
 * Illuminations from Der Naturen Bloeme by Jacob van Maerlant
 * Illuminations from de Rijmbijbel by Jacob van Maerlant
 * Illuminations from de Beatrijs

The two sets are interlinked: the illuminations can be found for each manuscript and the manuscript can be found for each illumination.

The sets were prepared as a co-operative project between the KB (8,376 illustrations from 330 manuscripts) and Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum (2,765 illustrations from 70 manuscripts). The metadata field  can be used to find out which institution holds a given manuscript.

This material can be searched on manuscripts.kb.nl/, where you can also find more help and background information on the material.

Files
The following information is available for each of the 400 manuscripts in the BYVANCK set: The following files are available for the images in the ByvanckB set:
 * descriptive metadata (Dublin Core in XML)
 * a picture 750 pixels wide (JPG)
 * a thumbnail 125 pixels wide (JPG)
 * a photo of the entire manuscript page containing the illumination (JPG) (not available for all illuminations)
 * descriptive metadata with permanent links to these three pictures (Dublin Core in XML)
 * a picture of approx 2,000 x 3,000 pixels, stored offline (TIFF)

There is some 600 kB of metadata in the BYVANCK set. The metadata and digital objects in the ByvanckB set are about 3 GB.

Technical
Technical explanation and examples of: are available in the comprehensive technical explanation (presently only in Dutch) on the set (PDF).
 * descriptive metadata of the manuscripts (Dublin Core)
 * descriptive metadata of the illuminations (Dublin Core)
 * objects (JPEG)
 * the metadata harvesting API, based on OAI-PMH
 * the search API, based on SRU

Terms and conditions for reuse & credits

 * The Koninklijke Bibliotheek and Museum Meermanno have waived their copyrights on the metadata for both sets, which, therefore, are available under a CC0-license
 * There is a Public Domain Mark for the objects (images) in the ByvanckB set, which means that there are no copyright restrictions on reproducing, publishing, processing or sharing these illustrations.

Although there is no requirement to credit the source when using the set, the KB and Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum would be grateful for this. Please use the following text:

Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum & National Library of the Netherlands, The Hague. Source: manuscripts.kb.nl – [link to object].

Contact & feedback
We are very interested in who uses the data and for what purpose, so please send an email to dataservices@undefinedkb.nl with your contact details and a brief description of what you use the data for. Feedback on our data and APIs is of course also very welcome. The information you provide also allows us to notify you of developments such as changes in the datasets or the release of new datasets.