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761 CHAPTER XIII. THE NETHERLANDS. BIBLIOGRAPHIES. See, besides the Ghent Bibliotheca Belgica and other collections on the general bibliography of the Netherlands, S. de Wind, Bibliotheek d. Nederlandsche Geschied- schrijvers, vol. i., Middelburg, 1835; L. La Haye, H. Francotte and F. de Potter, Bibliographic de 1'histoire de la Belgique, 1830-82, Liege, from 1886 ; and the invaluable Bibliographic de 1'histoire de Belgique by H. Pirenne, 2nd ed., Brussels and Ghent, 1902. Special bibliographies have also been published of the histories of several towns and territories. The short lists in E. Poullet, Les Anciens Pays-Bas, and in Lavisse and Rambaud's Histoire Ge'nerale, vol. in. ch. 4 (by L. Pingard) and 8 (by H. Pirenne), will be found useful, together with the names of authorities in P. Fredericq, Les Dues de Bourgogne. A list of essays and articles in Belgian periodicals, 1830-65, was published by E. van Bruyssel, Brussels, 1869 ; many Dutch contributions of value are to be found in De Gids, Amsterdam, from 1837. I. ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS. Of the original documents preserved in the national, provincial, municipal, and other archives of Holland and Belgium, numerous inventaires have been published. Those of the Belgian archives, drawn up under the direction of Gachard by himself, C. Piot, A. Pinchart, and L. Galesloot, were begun in 1837 (Gachard's Analectes Belgiques appeared 1830, his Collection de doc. ined. cone. 1'hist. de Belg. in 3 vols., 1833-5) ; the archives of the Chambres des Comptes, of the Council of Flanders, and of the Feudal Court of Brabant, were successively introduced by Gachard and Pinchart (Brussels, 1837-65), V. GaiUard (Ghent, 1856) and Galesloot (Brussels, 1870); among later inventaires are those of the Bruges archives by E. van den Bussche, 1881, and of the Brussels by A. Wauters, from 1888. Cf. for a general survey la Haye, etc. u. s. The publication of a series of inventaires of the Belgian archives under the direction of the Administr. des Arch. Gen. du Royaume, Part i: Catalogue raisonne, has quite recently (1902) begun. The Nederlandsche Rijksarchiev was inventoried by R. A. Bakhuizen van den Brink, L. Ph. C. van den Bergh, and J. de Jonge, Amsterdam, 1855 ; other Dutch archives by the above, P. Scheltema (Amsterdam, 1866-74), van den Brandeler (Dort, 1862-4), Rammel- man Elsevier, J. A. Nijhoff, etc. ; those of Groningen by H. O. Feith (Groningen, 1853-7). Numerous original documents of Dutch history are to be found in the publications of the Royal Netherlands last, and Acad. of Sc. (Class II.), and of Belgian in the memoires and bulletins of the Acad. Roy., the Comm. Roy. d'Hist. (whose comptes-rendus fill 4 series from 1834), the Comm. Roy. pour la publ. des