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Promoting Europe's cultural heritage in manuscript and print
CERL seeks to share resources and expertise between research libraries with a view to improving access to, as well as exploitation and preservation of the European printed heritage in the hand-press period (up to c. 1830). The organisation was formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. Welcome to our site.
HPB Database
The Heritage of the Printed Book in Europe, c. 1455 - c. 1830. A database of records from major European and North American research libraries.
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CERL Thesaurus
Multi-lingual information about names of persons and places found in catalogues of books of the hand-press period.
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CERL Portal
Cross-searching of catalogues of European manuscript materials, with the option to search selected early-printed books databases.
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Material Evidence in Incunabula
MEI is a database designed to record and search the material evidence of 15th century printed books.
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Publications
Includes the series of CERL Papers which record the contributions given at CERL's Annual Seminars.
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Collaboration
Find out about CERL's networks, projects and collaborative working groups.
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Seminars and Workshops
The Consortium holds annual international seminars and regular regional and national workshops.
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Provenance
Can You Help? for provenance queries. Bibliography of provenance sources. Records for book owners in the CERL Thesaurus.
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This site is archived as part of the initiative of the UK Web Archiving Consortium
Headline speakers announced for CENDARI Summer School 2013
Hugh Denard, Graham Jefcoate, and Jay Winter are all confirmed to speak at
“Historical Sources & Transnational Approaches to European History” in Florence this year. More details on our CENDARI project page and on the CENDARI website, where applications for places are now being received.
A new interface for the HPB database
The migration of the HPB from OCLC to VZG/GBV at Göttingen is succesfully completed. The HPB is now presented through a new interface, and offers new, specialist, indexes, such as a provenance index. CERL members have been sent login instructions and are invited to submit IP addresses/ranges to set up access through IP recognition. The URL for the new HPB is hpb.cerl.org.
Illustrating the Early Printed Book
Hes & De Graaf Publishers, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, National Library of the Netherlands (KB) and the Dutch Book Historical Society (NBV) are organising a conference on 12 April 2013 on the occasion of the publication of the long awaited revised edition of Ina Kok’s Woodcuts in Incunabula printed in the Low Countries.
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History of Libraries Research Seminars, University of London
A series of seminars, freely open to everyone, has been organised by the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. More information, including podcasts, can be found here.
CERL Newsletter
The latest CERL Newsletter is now available.
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Download CERL Papers I to III for free
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CERL Annual Seminar, The British Library, 30 October 2012
The PowerPoint presentations given at the Annual Seminar on Accessing heritage research collections through digitisation: models and use are now available here.
Researching print-runs
Over the years, Eric White, Curator of Special Collections, Bridwell Library, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas, has been gathering data on the edition size, or print-run, of incunabula, a notoriously elusive subject. He has kindly agreed to make the c.280 records available to the wider community via CERL.
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Powerpoint presentation on the Heritage of the Printed Book database
Jana Hentschke presented the latest HPB developments and data loads to colleagues during a Workshop on Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research, at Glasgow University Library on 24 November last year. Her powerpoint presentation is now available.
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