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Brieven als Buit (Letters as loot)
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More than a thousand 17th- and 18th-century Dutch letters from seized
ships are now available online. The letters are a gold mine for
researchers wanting to study the everyday language used by men and
women during this period.


The transcriptions of the letters, that have now been included in the
corpus, were made by volunteers from the Leiden Wikiscripta
Neerlandica project. The Letters as Loot research team gathered
information (metadata) on the letters themselves, the senders and the
addressees.

	Cited from https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/research/research-projects/humanities/letters-as-loot.-towards-a-non-standard-view-on-the-history-of-dutch#tab-1
	March 18, 2021


HistCorp inclusion date
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March 18, 2021


Website
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https://taalmaterialen.ivdnt.org/download/tstc-bab-gouden-standaard/


Licence
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Registration required for download and use:
https://taalmaterialen.ivdnt.org/registreren/ 


The HistCorp files
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On the HistCorp page, the texts from Brieven als Buit are not
downloadable at this stage, since users are required to sign a licence
form to get access to the corpus. The texts are however included in
the Dutch language models, available from the Language Models tab on
the HistCorp webpage.

Size: 1,033 texts, with a total of 458,961 tokens.