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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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
Raising awareness of The European Library: a competition for CENL, LIBER and CERL libraries
The European Library is running a competition to find the best marketing campaign to disseminate news about its new portal and services. The deadline for submissions is 9 May 2012. The announcement of this competition and the agenda for the meeting in Bucharest on 22 May 2012, where the competition will be judged, are now available. Announcement and Agenda
The European Library invites research libraries to join
This is an opportunity for the research libraries of Europe to expose their metadata in both The European Library portal and in Europeana, thus ensuring a wide audience of researchers and general public alike. Read more...
Download CERL Papers I to III for free
CERL I: The European Printed Heritage c. 1450–c.1830: Present and Future. Three Lectures. CERL II: The Scholar & the Database (Lotte Hellinga, ed.). Papers presented on 4 November 1999 at the CERL conference hosted by the Royal Library, Brussels.
CERL III: Books beyond Frontiers: the need for international collaboration in national retrospective bibliography (David Shaw, ed.). Papers presented on 8 November 2002 at the Bibliopolis Conference on ‘The future history of the book’ hosted by the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague. Read more...
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.
CERL Newsletter - December 2011
The latest CERL Newsletter is now available. Read more...
CERL Papers XI: Virtual visits to lost libraries: reconstruction of and access to dispersed collections
The eleven papers presented at the CERL Seminar hosted by the Royal Library of Denmark in November 2010 have been published.
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