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.
Hand Press Book Database The Heritage of the Printed Book in Europe, c. 1450 - 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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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 Information
Web pages about publications and web sites on provenance. The CERL Thesaurus links personal names to web-based catalogues containing books owned by them.
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This site is archived as part of the initiative of the UK Web Archiving Consortium
Using OCLC‘s Connexion Browser to access HPB records in MARC21 format
CERL members may now use OCLC‘s Connexion client and browser facilities for retrieval, downloading and editing of HPB records. A recording of a demonstration of the Connexion Browser has been prepared for all first time users.
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European Digital Library - test site available
As a founding member of the EDL Foundation, CERL is pleased to announce the launch of Europeana, which offers sophisticated browsing and searching to find paintings, photographs, objects, books, newspapers, archival records, films and sound that have been digitised by Europe’s heritage organisations.
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Book History Workshop, Lyon,
1-4 September 2008
For the sixth edition of its Book History Workshop, organised in collaboration with the Rare Book School (University of Virginia), the Lyon-based Institut d’histoire du livre is offering four advanced courses in the fields of book and printing history.
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New Files in the CERL Thesaurus
Two files have been added to the CERL Thesaurus with the February update
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