DaLeT datasets

This is a first export of datasets from the DaleT database.

DaLeT, the Database of the Leuven Trilingue, is the first database devoted to an early modern trilingual institute, the Collegium Trilingue Lovaniense, or the Three-Language College in Leuven, where one could study the three so-called sacred languages Latin, Greek, and Hebrew for free. The Trilingue was also known as the Collegium Buslidianum, or Busleyden College, named after its material founder Jerome of Busleyden (ca. 1470-1517), a prominent diplomat with humanist interests and many important connections throughout Habsburg Europe. The brainchild of Erasmus of Rotterdam, the institute existed from 1517 until 1797, when it was dissolved in the wake of the French revolution and the annexation of most parts of present-day Belgium by France. The Trilingue was most influential during its acme in the 16th century, especially the years 1517-1578, when it educated numerous prominent scholars, scientists, and politicians. DaLeT focuses on this early period of the college, after which Leuven intellectual life became seriously upset by the Eighty Years’ War and other dire circumstances such as the plague. 

This datadump contains the following datasets:

annotations.csv: all annotations created, linked to individual copies/pages

editions.csv: all editions, linked to individual copies/pages, and persons/works

individual_copies.csv: all individual copies, linked to pages, editions, and persons/works

pages.csv: all pages, linked to individual copies/editions, and annotations

persons.csv: all persons, linked to individual copies/editions, and works

works.csv: all works, linked to persons (as authors), and individual copies/editions