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Archive Inventories

KITLV's Archives Inventories are online, but in Dutch only. Users may also search the online catalogue for archival descriptions in English.

Online Catalogue

253 Archive inventories are now available online. KITLV holds an extensive archival collection of Eastern and Western manuscripts. Inventories or listings of a number of these partial collections have been created over the years, and can now be accessed on this website. The existing inventories, listings and tables of content have been revised, modernised, completed when necessary, and improved. In recent years, we have also set up a fair number of new inventories.

All inventories are uniformly presented in pdf format, so that users may search them either all at once by means of the search option in the menu on the bottom left of the website, or individually by means of the search options provided in their pdf reader. In the near future, more inventories will be added to the website, describing both old and new material.

The online inventories may be used to check for the availablility of archives on certain persons. places, events, reports, letters and diaries. However, the archives themselves can only be accessed in our reading room on the second floor of the KITLV building.

List of new acquisitions of manuscripts and other archival documents in 2009.

Inventory list

* Image Collection

* Archive Inventories

* Interview Collection