Historical Documents in European Languages Relating to Japan in the 16-18^<th> Centuries - an approach to make catalogues and data-bases.

史学研究所一直在用微缩胶片收集未发表的有关日本的外文历史文献。在本项目中，我们的目标是进一步对文献进行逐一的描述性编目，并建立文献数据库。除了帮助研究人员更容易地使用这些文件外，目录和数据库还将向我们展示留下这些文件的组织的结构。在荷兰语文件方面，我们已经着手建立一个保存在海牙Algemeen rijksarchie的荷兰东印度公司文件数据库，“巴达维亚1621-1792年的手册和简报（巴达维亚的外发文件）”。现在我们处理完1621年到1686年的文件，大概有12500件。我们也正在对保存在里斯本阿尤达公共图书馆的耶稣会文件制作一个描述性目录。这本名为《亚洲耶稣会》（Jesuitas na Asia）的手抄本包括了16-17世纪日本和其他亚洲国家耶稣会士的许多报告。我们逐条记录了这些文件的摘要。我们现在打算完成这些工作，并通过这些文件开始对各组织进行新的结构分析。

The Historiographical Institute has been collecting unpublished historical documents concerning Japan written in foreign languages by microfilm.In this project, we aimed at the furtherance of making descriptive catalog for the documents one by one, and database of them. Besides helping researchers to use these documents more easily, the catalogues and the databases will show us the structure of the organizations which left those documents.In respect of Dutch language documents, we have got along with making a database of the documents of the Dutch East India Company preserved in Algemeen Rijksarchief in the Hague, "Batavia's Uitgaand briefboek 1621-1792 (outgoing documents from Batavia)". Now we finished dealing with the documents from 1621 to 1686, about 12,500 items.We are also making a descriptive catalog of the documents of Society of Jesus preserved in Bibliotaca Publica da Ajuda, Lisboa. The hand-written copy books named Jesuitas na Asia include many reports from Jesuits in Japan and other Asian countries in the 16-17^<th> centuries. We recorded the summary of these documents one by one.We now intend to complete these works and to begin a new structural analysis of the organizations through the documents.