Amsterdam Archive

University of Amsterdam Library
 

The Mennonite Reading Room of the University of Amsterdam Library houses a special collection (1,2) of original, historical materials of the United Mennonite Congregation of Amsterdam (3), who provided important aid to Anabaptists of Central Europe seeking new homes in colonial Pennsylvania and other parts of the world. The archive preserves records about many of these relocations and other documents of the early church. (4) Jacob Gijsbert de Hoop Scheffer provides (in Dutch) a catalog of these archives. (5)

This collection commonly is known among Mennonite historians as the "Amsterdam Archive."

Notes

1. "Special Collections," www.uba.uva.nl/speci...ections/overview.cfm (University of Amsterdam; accessed 2011 Feb 22).

2. "Special Collections: Church History," www.uba.uva.nl/speci...F76-BD7787F3962C46AC (University of Amsterdam; accessed 2011 Feb 22).

3. "Special Collections: Church History: Mennonite Reading Room," www.uba.uva.nl/speci...7C1-9D79434DEB0F556A (University of Amsterdam; accessed 2011 Feb 22).

4. Nanne van der Zijpp, "Amsterdam Mennonite Library (Bibliotheek en Archief van de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente te Amsterdam)," www.gameo.org/encycl.../contents/A4760.html (GAMEO, 2010; accessed 2010 Sep 10).

5. J. G. de Hoop Scheffer, Inventaris der Archiefstukken Berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente te Amsterdam (Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten Geschenke Aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883). Excerpts www.dgatx.com/family...ubs/1883/IAA/hs.html (2010 Sep 7).