STCN titles

KB, National Library of the Netherlands (opens in new tab)

The Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN) contains expert descriptions of books printed in the Netherlands and/or in Dutch between the second half of the fifteenth century and 1801 in more than 225.000 editions in over 655.000 copies. It contains descriptions of books in the collections of many heritage institutions in the Netherlands and abroad. All books are described book in hand. Descriptions contain information about authors, titles, imprints, size, collation formula, subject keywords and typographical features, among others. Every edition is distinguished by the STCN fingerprint. Newspapers and ambassadors’ letters are excluded.

URI
http://data.bibliotheken.nl/id/dataset/stcn/titles (opens in new tab)
Publisher & creator
KB, National Library of the Netherlands (opens in new tab) More from this publisher
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License
CC0 1.0 Universal (opens in new tab)
Temporal Coverage
1450 – 1800
Issued
March 26, 2019
Modified
February 23, 2026

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Registered on
June 29, 2026 at 12:31 PM
Last read
15 hours ago
Completeness
95%
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