Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections (MMDC)

This dataset contains descriptions of medieval manuscripts which were available on the website www.mmdc.nl from 2007-2025, hosted by the KB, National library of the Netherlands. All medieval western manuscripts up to c. 1550 written in Latin script and preserved in public and semi-public collections in the Netherlands are described. Fragments of manuscripts are only included when possible and useful: the texts must be identifiable or the fragments should have already been catalogued as an object. Archival documents and letters are not recorded, except when already part of another included manuscript. The descriptions contain, for example and when available, information on location, author, title, material and origins and provenance of the manuscript. This dataset repesents the data from the beginning of the website in 2007, no further updates have been made since. The data is available in a xlsx, xml and json format. The dataset also contains 5 pdf files with the used thesuarus on authors, categories keywords, individuals, institutions as owner and / or producer and person keyword.