Placards Published Volumes

The ‘Plakaatboeken’ or Placards of Batavia Castle were published by the Batavian Society for Arts and Sciences under the supervision of the Director of the former Landsarchief (state archive) of the Netherlands Indies in Batavia, Mr. J.A. van der Chijs. It is a publication of (parts of) the original archive series of ‘Plakaaten’, in the archive of the Supreme Government, inv. nrs. 2248-2419 (161 volumes) The publication of a selection of the placards from these 161 archive volumes in 17 volumes took thirteen years of selection, transcription, summarization and listing. It is not clear yet whether all placards in the original archival series were published by Van der Chijs. Several placards were clearly directly transcribed from the Resolutions of Batavia Castle and the Resolutions of the College of Alderman.

All volumes have been scanned in the past by other institutions, and uploaded for further digitization and publication. 
An overview of the published Placard books can be found on:

Internet Archive Search Page on Plakaatboek

University Library of Leiden Collection KIT

 

The following overview of the published Placard books include links to a book viewer:

Volume Period Published PDF download
1 1602-1642 1885
2 1642-1677 1886
3 1678-1709 1887

4 1709-1743 1887

5 1743-1750 1888
6 1750-1754 1889
7 1755-1764 1890
8 1765-1775 1891
9 Nieuwe statuten 1891

10 1776-1787 1892
11 1788-1794 1893
12 1795-1799 1894
13 1800-1803 1895
14 1804-1808 1895
15 1808-1809 1896
16 1810-1811 1897
17 Register 1900