CERL at a Glance

Cristina Dondiand

Marian Lefferts

Athens, Laskaridis Foundation, 20 March 2017

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Libraries Membership organisationCollaboration of specialist librarians, ITs, and

scholarly communityEarly printed books and ManuscriptsPlace our collections in contextPromote and exchange expertiseDevelop and sustain integrated tools and services

What is CERL?

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Coordinating CommitteeWorking Groups (e.g. bookbinding, provenance) Seminars and conferencesManutius Network 2015 Sponsoring of target eventsCERL Internship and Placement GrantManuscript Librarians’ Expert Group Security Network Publications and Newsletter LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage EU-funded Projects

NETWORK

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Space for scholarly research to be disseminated and used by wider publicPaul Needham’s Index Possessorum

Incunabulorum(IPI) http://ipi.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?start=true

Meg Ford’s Early Book Owners in Britain(EBOB) http://www.cerl.org/help/ebob/main

Eric White’s Researching Print-runs

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Working Groups

Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) CERL ThesaurusMaterial Evidence in Incunabula CERL Portal Promotion of CERL's Activities and Services Book Bindings Provenance and Standards for the description of Provenance

EvidenceManuscripts Security Network

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MANUTIUS NETWORK

http://www.cerl.org/collaboration/manutius_network_2015/mainManaged by Paolo Sachet (Warburg PhD

candidate)MANUTIUS NETWORK

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Manutius Network

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SPONSORING SCHOLARS

The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book TradeLondon, The Warburg Institute, 6 Feb. 2015Conference organized by Paolo Sachet and Jill

Kraye

CERL funded attendance of one of the speakers

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SPONSORING SPEAKERS

The Roman Press in the Papal City and in Europe, CERL Seminar 2011Biblioteca ApostolicaVaticana, 11 Nov. 2011

Independent scholar Martin DaviesSTOP THIEF! Preventing and Investigating

Theft from Collections in the Digital Age, CERL Seminar 2013 Warsaw UL, 29 Oct. 2013

Captain Gianpietro Romano, in charge of the Antiques section of the Carabinieri Operative Department for the protection of Cultural Heritage4/4/2017 10

CERL Internship and Placement Grant

1,000 Euros in 20142,000 Euros in 20153,000 Euros in 2016Angeline Rais (CH) > London, Lambeth Palace Francesca Rocchi (IT) > BodleianThomas Theyssens (BE) > British LibraryRuben Celani (IT) > The HagueMaria O’Shea (IE) > The HagueJudith Kolumbán (RO) > The Hague4/4/2017 11

The Members (over 270 in total) The Coordinating Committee The Directors The Secretariat

Chairman: Ulf Göranson, Uppsala Treasurer: Richard Ovenden, Bodleian Oxford Secretary: Cristina Dondi, London and Oxford Executive Manager: Marian Lefferts, The Hague Marie Curie Fellow: Laura Carnelos Executive Officer: Kimberley Hart, London

Technical teams Data Conversion Group in Göttingen VZG, Göttingen Electronic Publishing Center in Uppsala

Who is CERL?

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Membership: 277 Libraries

23 Single members (with 110 clusters) 12 Groups with 125 members 19 Special members

Growth 2012: 1 Special (MAK Vienna); 1 Group (Flanders Heritage) 2013: 3 Single (Vienna, Bern UL, ETH-Bibliothek, Zurich); 4 groups (MIBAC, Italy), 2014: 3 groups (Ireland, Scottish Univ, London); 7 Special (BEIC Italy, Latvia, INIST

France, UNBCE Italy, Univ Libraries of Heidelberg and Vilnius, Bibl de Catalunia); 9 clusters (to Vienna ONB); addition to Flemish Group

2015: 1 Single (Cambridge UL); 2 Group (Swedish; Norwegian Groups); 14 clusters (to The Hague KL and Munich BSB)

2016: 5 Special (Gennadius; Laskaridis; Ioannou; Onassis; Prague Nat. Museum); 1 cluster (to The Hague KL)

2017: 2 Groups (Swiss; American); 1 Special (St Gallen)4/4/2017 13

Coordinating Committee

Chair: Prof Ulf Göranson, University Library, Uppsala, and CERL Chairman Secretary: Drs Marian Lefferts, CERL Executive, The Hague Treasurer: Mr Richard Ovenden, Bodleian Library, Oxford Mr Ivan Boserup, Kongelige Biblioteket, Copenhagen Dr Luisa Buson, Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche, Padua Dr Per Cullhed, Uppsala University Library Dr Cristina Dondi, CERL Secretary, London and Oxford Dr Adrian Edwards, British Library, London Dr Andreas Fingernagel, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna Dr Bente Granrud, National Library of Norway, Oslo Dr Anette Hagan, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh Mrs Monique Hulvey, Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon Mr Alexander Jahnke, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen Dr Kristian Jensen, British Library, London Dr Katre Kaju, Academic Library of Tallinn University Mr Frédéric Lemmers, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique - Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Brussels Mr Jean-Dominique Mellot, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Dr Lucia Negrini, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Rome Dr Ben Outhwaite, Cambridge University Library Dr Marieke van Delft, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague Dr Jutta Weber Staatsbibliothek Berlin

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Board of Directors: strategy

Chairman: Prof Ulf Göranson, University Library, Uppsala Secretary: Dr Cristina Dondi, Lincoln College, University of

London and Oxford Treasurer: Mr Richard Ovenden, Bodleian Library, Oxford Dr Andrea De Pasquale, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome Prof Pierre Delsaerdt, Flanders Heritage Libraries Group,

Antwerp Dr Claudia Fabian, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, MunichMs Hege Høsøien, National Library of Norway, OsloMrs Anne Pasquignon, Bibliothèque nationale de France, ParisMr Edwin Schroeder, Yale University Library, New Haven Prof Jolanta Talbierska, University of Warsaw Library4/4/2017 15

BUDGET and Organisation [UPDATE]

350,000 Euro = 411,000 USDStaff: Marian Lefferts – full timeKim Hart – part timeLaura Carnelos – project fundedCristina Dondi – consultant3 CT manual editors – consultantsIT works – contractorsEverybody else: voluntary4/4/2017 16

Provenance in Bod-inc and Walsh

Bod-inc: 4,054 provenance entriesWalsh: c.2,650 provenance entries

Bod-inc: 1,338 books from 558 different European religious institutionsWalsh: 633 books from 346 different

European religious institutions

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Provenance in Bod-inc and Walsh

Bod-inc: Germany: 778 books from 241 housesItaly: 161 books from 115 housesWalsh:Germany: 297 books from 142 housesItaly: 116 books from 82 houses

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EU-FUNDED PROJECTS

Europeana Cloud(pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud)

CENDARI (www.cendari.eu)

15cBOOKTRADE (www.mod-langs.ox.ac.uk/research/15cBooktrade/)

European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (EDPOP) https://edpop.wp.hum.uu.nl/

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MEI

Material Evidence in Incunabula

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MEI Record and research copy specific evidence (provenance,

decoration, binding, marginalia, etc.) in combination with bibliographical evidence, derived from

the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC-BL) Track the movement of each copy in space and time Include ‘Historical copies’, from private collections, and in the

trade Free to use and to contribute toMaintained by CERL Funding from British Academy, Italian PRIN, Italian Regional

authorities, and ERC grant

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Innovative Approach to sources

Physical evidence historical evidence

Capturing the movement of the books as evidence of trade and use by tagging geographically and chronologically

Integration of provenance records from different sources: book-in-hand, paper catalogues, and electronic ones

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Our collections as disiecta membra

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Historical Copies

Provenance records extracted from historical library catalogues of collections now dispersed.

Objective: quantification of lost copies and collections.

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MEI Statistics (Mar. 2017)

Editions: 9,010Copies: 21,570Owners: 10, 162

c. 331 libraries in 10 countries, 2 continentshttp://www.cerl.org/resources/mei/about/libraries

c.100 editors: librarians and scholars http://www.cerl.org/resources/mei/about/editors

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Reconstruction of a dispersed collection: Venice, S. Giorgio Maggiore, OSB

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BODLEIAN COPY:Iste liber est monachorum congregationis S. Justine de Padua deputatus in S. Georgii maioris Venetiarum | .773.

1 copy in Oxford: WHERE ARE THE OTHERS?

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Biblia LatinaVenice: Franciscus Renner, 1480

Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. M 2.12Bod-inc B-275

German style decoration

Reconstruction of a dispersed collection: Venice, S. Giorgio Maggiore, OSB

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TEXT-inc (15cBOOKTRADE)Corpus of texts printed in the 15 century

http://textinc.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/

Bod-inc

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A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library, ed. A. Coates, K. Jensen, C. Dondi, B. Wagner, and H. Dixon, 6 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005).

Bod-inc: 5,500 eds

Bod-inc online

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BOD-INC TEXT-INC

a 1 r : t i t l e - p a g e i n c l . v e r s e s

a 2 r : d e d i c a t o r y l e t t e rb y t h e a u t h o r

e 2 r : a l e t t e r b y t h e t r a n s l a t o r

f 4 v : t h e c o l o p h o n

Abstemius, Laurentius, Fabulae, Venice: J. Tacuinus, [1499] ISTC ia00011000http://15cbooktrade.ox.ac.uk/texts/

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All texts listedTituli providedIncipit and explicitColophon transcriptionSecundo folioSubject

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