Annotated transcription of Pieter de Graeff's book auction catalogue (9 July 1709)
<p>Annotated transcription of Pieter de Graeff's book auction catalogue (9 July 1709). Full title: <em>Catalogus Librorum Viri Amplissimi Petri De Graaff (dum viveret) Toparchae In Zuydt-Polsbroeck, Purmerland, Ilpendam, &c. &c. Urbis Amstelodamensis Scabini &c. Quorum auctio habebitur in Aedibus Viduae T. Boom, & haeredum H. Boom. Op de Cingel by de Jan-Roonpoorts Tooren. Die Martis 9. Julii MDCCIX. Amstelodami, In Officina Bomiana Ubi Catalogi distribuuntur. </em>National Library of Russia, St Petersburg (NL: 16.133.9.36). Scanned copy: <a href="http://primarysources.brillonline.com/browse/book-sales-catalogues-online/catalogus-librorum-collected-by-an-amsterdam-magistrate-amsterdam-widow-dirk-i-boom-heirs-hendrick-boom-1709;bscobsc02687" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Brill Book Sales Catalogue Online</a>. </p> <p>The transcription lists the books’ identified full titles with the authors’ names accompanied by their <a href="https://viaf.org/">VIAF</a> ID's to facilitate identification and disambiguation. Similarly, the <a href="https://www.getty.edu/research/tools/vocabularies/tgn/">Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names (TGN)</a> has been used to facilitate the identification of the publication places. Matches with the <a href="https://www.ustc.ac.uk/">Universal Short Title Catalogue (USTC)</a> and the <a href="https://data.cerl.org/stcn/_search">Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN)</a> are also provided.</p> <p>This dataset is analysed and discussed in C. Piccoli, <a href="https://brill.com/display/title/69863">Pieter de Graeff (1638-1707) and his <em>treffelyke bibliotheek</em>. Exploring and Reconstructing an Early Modern Private Library as a Book Collection and as a Physical Space</a> (Leiden: Brill, 2025), and published as supplementary material of this monograph.</p> <p>Author statement:<br>Chiara Piccoli: Conceptualization; research & analysis; books' identification (Theologici, Juridici, Medici & Philosophici; Miscellanei); USTC, STCN and TNG matches; groupings by and identifications of formats, languages, subjects; notes; links to digitized copies; data curation.<br>Bart Reuvekamp: First transcription; books' identification (Theologici).</p> <p> </p>
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36/100
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- Harmonization
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- Access
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- Reuse readiness
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- Engagement
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