Repository path: workshop/canon/max-havelaar-i/manifest.md · rendered 2026-09-09

Source manifest — Max Havelaar, chapter I, first four body paragraphs

Not a canon member. A source text fetched for one unit (E-20260801-strata, S077, the C6 translation limb) and frozen before a word of it was translated.

Bibliographic

• Work: Max Havelaar, of de koffiveilingen der Nederlandsche Handelmaatschappy
• Author: Multatuli (Eduard Douwes Dekker, 1820–1887)
• First publication: 1860. The Gutenberg text is a later authorial edition carrying Multatuli's own orthography (y for ij, koffi, zoo), which is preserved here unmodernised.
• Public domain: author died 1887; Project Gutenberg distributes it freely.
• Language: Dutch. The project's first Dutch source and its sixteenth source language.

Retrieval

• Source: Project Gutenberg ebook #11024, https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11024/pg11024.txt, fetched 2026-08-01, UTF-8.
• Extent frozen here: chapter I (EERSTE HOOFDSTUK), body paragraphs 1–4 — from «Ik ben makelaar in koffi…» to «…meen ik» at the end of the fourth paragraph. 716 words, 4,060 characters. The rest of the chapter was fetched and is not stored.
• Extraction: a five-line script that split the fetched text on blank lines, took the first four paragraphs after the chapter heading, and collapsed intra-paragraph newlines. It printed word counts and 60-character prefixes only; the body was written to source.txt unread.

Editorial note — one convention preserved rather than emended

The Gutenberg transcription marks the original's emphasis with underscores (_waarheid en gezond verstand_). Sixteen occur in the stored extent. They are kept as they stand: they are the transcriber's rendering of the source's italics, the italics are Multatuli's, and Droogstoppel's emphasis is a feature a translator has to decide about. No characters were added, deleted or altered.

No emendation was needed and none was made. Unlike the Aozora path (S051, S061, note (beg)), this fetch is a plain UTF-8 download with no gaiji layer and no character-stripping step; the stored text was diffed against the fetched paragraphs and is byte-identical to them modulo the newline collapse.

Comparator — reachable, extracted, and not opened

• Baron Alphonse Nahuÿs, Max Havelaar; or, the coffee auctions of the Dutch trading company (Edinburgh: Edmonston & Douglas, 1868) — Project Gutenberg ebook #70128, fetched 2026-08-01.
• Not stored in this repository. Extracted mechanically to a scratch file for the contamination gate and not read by the translator: continue-prompt.md §5.2 forbids priming a workshop translation with a stored published rendering of the same source, and R07 §Procedure 1 requires the translator to have read no published rendering before the translation and its log are frozen.
• This is the materials shape CLAUDE.md prefers — original and translation both free — and it is why this source was chosen over several closer-to-hand alternatives whose English is in copyright.

Witnesses

One witness only, and it is declared rather than glossed over. No second free electronic text of this edition was sought, because nothing in the unit turns on establishing a text: the passage is nineteenth-century printed Dutch with no textual crux, and the unit measures coverage codes, not readings.