Browse Placards

The Placards descriptions, which are digitized from the published volumes to facilitate research, are ordered chronologically. In the published volumes, there are also several indexes but these have not been digitized yet. The result of digitilizing the placard descriptions is a dataset of a total of 10,893 placard titles. ‘Date’ refers to  the date the Supreme Government decided to issue a placard. It is recommended to search in the Resolutions of Batavia Castle for the complete text of the placard if only a summary of the placard text is given in the published volumes. In most instances, the placards are to be found by date in the Resolutions, but we have not checked this and there may be irregularities between the data in the published volumes and the Resolutions. In the ‘Description’ a reference is given to the date at which the placard was publicly issued in the city.