==== 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.



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//**Services and Resources**//

[[:en:resources:hpb:main|{{  :en:press.jpg?80|A wooden common press}}]] **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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[[:en:resources:cerl_thesaurus:main|{{  :en:thesaurus2_small.png?80|CERL Thesaurus}}]]
**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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[[:en:resources:cerl_thesaurus:main|Read more...]]

[[:en:resources:cerl_portal|{{  en:bod_ms_lat_th_e_30.jpg?80|manuscript page}}]]
**CERL Portal**\\  
Cross-searching of catalogues of European manuscript materials, with the option to search selected early-printed books databases.\\  
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[[:en:resources:mei:main|{{  en:mei_image_-_incunable.jpg?80|Material Evidence in Incunabula}}]]
**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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[[:en:publications:main|{{  :en:cerl_vi_title_page211x300.jpg?80|CERL Papers VI}}]]
**Publications**\\   Includes the series of [[:en:publications:cerl_papers|CERL Papers]] which record the contributions given at CERL's Annual Seminars.\\  
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[[:en:services:seminars:main|{{  en:seminar2005.png?80|CERL Seminar, Rome, 2005}}]]
**Seminars and Workshops**\\  
The Consortium holds annual international  seminars and regular regional and national workshops.\\  
[[:en:services:seminars:main|Read more...]]

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**Provenance**\\ 
Can You Help? for provenance queries. Bibliography of provenance sources. Records for book owners in the CERL Thesaurus.\\ 
[[en:resources:provenance:main|Read more...]]
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This site is archived as part of the initiative of the [[http://www.webarchive.org.uk|UK Web Archiving Consortium]]



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//**News**//

**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.
[[http://www.cerl.org/web/en/publications/cerl_papers/main|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 [[http://www.cerl.org/web/en/services/seminars/main#workshops|powerpoint presentation]] is now available.

**CERL Newsletter - December 2011**\\
The latest CERL Newsletter is now available. [[http://www.cerl.org/web/en/publications/newsletter|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.\\
[[http://www.cerl.org/web/en/publications/main|Read more...]]

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  *  Europeana Libraries' [[http://www.europeana-libraries.eu/home/-/blogs/rss|RSS feed]]. 
  *  [[en:news#More provenance data added to the CERL Thesaurus|CERL Thesaurus provenance data]]
  *  [[http://www.cerl.org/web/en/resources/hpb/technical/modes_of_access_to_the_hpb_database|Using OCLC's Connexion Browser to access HPB records in MARC21 format]] 
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