This project aims to digitize a typical Dutch corpus: the corpus of 17th-century secular and religious love emblem books. They are published on the Internet in a format with search capabilities that enables visitors to access the material in a variety of ways. The backbone of this Internet site is formed by an XML-database that includes scholarly editions and indexes.Since most emblematic studies have a comparative aim, indexes and other search tools are incorporated in these editions.

Files not yet migrated to Data Station. For access to these files, please contact DANS at info@dans.knaw.nl.

For the description of data files see the document ‘readme_dataset_contents.txt’, all other readme files describe the contents of the separate sections.The file ‘references_to_epu_and_dbnl.pdf’ links every archived book to external websites where their contents can be accessed online, namely the ‘Emblem Project Utrecht (EPU)’ and the ‘Digitale Bibliotheek voor de Nederlandse Letteren (dbnl)’.