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This image bank contains approximately 1400 digitized images about the history of the printed book in the Netherlands, largely originating from the collections of the KB. The images can be downloaded and used with the stated credit line.

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 Amazement of a foreigner about the reading and writing skills of the people in the Netherlands in the sixteenth century: A quotation from the 'Beschrijvinghe van alle de Nederlanden' by Ludovico Guicciardini.

Creator
 Guicciardini, Ludovico (auteur/author), Jansz, Willem (drukker/printer)

Year
 1612

Type
 tekstbladzijde, page

Related term
 alfabetisering, leesvaardigheid, schrijfvaardigheid

Period
 16e eeuw

Classification
 K: Maatschappelijke aspecten van boekproductie en -verspreiding

Content
 A fragment from the Dutch translation of the 'Descrittione di tutti i Paesi Bassi, altrimenti detti Germania Inferiore', originally published in 1567. The remark by Guicciardini is as follows: 'De ghemeyne lieden hebben meestendeels wat beginsels in Grammatica: ende konnen schier al t'samen, jae oock de boeren ende landtlieden, ten aller minsten lesen ende schryven.' (Ordinary people ususally know a few basics of grammar and can all, yes, also farmers and peasants, at least read and write).

Original
 Guicciardijn, M. Lowijs - Beschrijvinghe van alle de Neder-landen; anderssins ghenoemt Neder-duijtslandt. - Amsterdam: Willem Jansz, 1612. p. 27.

available in
 Koninklijke Bibliotheek, Den Haag 529 B 30

@description
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek

@reproduction
 Den Haag Koninklijke Bibliotheek