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Ownership marks in old books

• Omanikumärgid vanaraamatus: artiklite kogumik =
  Ownership marks in old books: collection of articles =
  Владельческий знак на старинной книге: сборник статей
  [Eesti Rahvusraamatukogu ; koostaja ja toimetaja Larissa Petina ; tõlkijad Ruth Hiie, Inna Saaret, Sirje Lusmägi ; kujundaja Margit Plink ; kaane kujundaja Andrus Igalaan].
  Tallinn: National Library of Estonia, 2008. 178 pages, illustrated.
  ISBN: 978-9949-413-20-1
  (Articles in Estonian, English and Russian, with summaries.)

Studies in provenance of Estonian and foreign historical book collections, as well as the reconstruction of former private and family libraries. Under survey are ownership marks, reader’s inscriptions, and notes of collectors from the 16th-20th centuries. Among the authors are old and rare book specialists and book historians from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Finland, Russia and England.
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• Books and Collectors 1200-1700: Essays Presented to Andrew Watson (British Library Studies in the History of the Book) Ed. by James P. Carley and C.G.C. Tite.
  British Library Publishing, 512 p., 1996. ISBN-13: 978-0712345064.
  
  A collection of recent research by 23 scholars, this work focuses on four major themes in the history of the book. Covering five centuries, it surveys monastic books and medieval learning, humanism and incunabula, the dispersal of monastic libraries, and post-monastic collectors. The essays draw on evidence offered by library catalogues and lists, the work of individual monastic houses and monks, book bindings and illumination, book dealers and collectors, and the close study of scripts and manuscript annotations.

• Margaret Lane Ford. ‘Private ownership of printed books’. In: The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, volume III, 1400-1557. Cambridge University Press, 1999. ISBN: 0 521 57346 7. Pp. 205–28.

• David Pearson. Provenance Research in Book History: A Handbook. The British Library Studies in the History of the Book.
  British Library Publishing. 336 pages, 100 B&W illustrations, 228 x 152 mm, 1998 (reprinted with addenda, original edition 1994). ISBN: 0712303448 hardback, 0712345981 paperback.

This handbook surveys the different kinds of ownership evidence to be found in books and brings together a wide range of information and bibliographical references to provenance research. Features of this work include: a list of mottoes used by owners in the 16th and 17th centuries, donors’ registers for historic libraries, a survey of published and unpublished provenance indexes for libraries in Britain and North America, a list of bookplate collections and notes on booksellers’ catalogues.

Provenance indexes available in UK libraries – a selective update, September 2005
A supplement to the listing of provenance indexes in UK libraries found in chapter VII of David Pearson’s Provenance research in book history: a handbook (London, 1994, reprinted with addenda 1998). The list was prepared for the CILIP Rare Books Group conference ‘Whose book was it anyway?: Book ownership and Provenance’ (New Hall Cambridge, 7-9 September 2005).
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• Books and their owners (CERL Papers V)
  Papers presented on 12 November 2004 at the CERL conference hosted by the National Library of Scotland.
  21 x 14.5 cm. (approx.), xiv + 104 pp.
  ISBN 0-9541535-3-7. Price: £15.00 (includes p&p). November 2005.
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• Provenance evidence: thesaurus for use in rare book and special collections cataloguing
  Prepared by the Standards Committee of the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section (ACRL/ALA) Chicago: Association of College and Research Libraries, 1988. ISBN 083897239X.

• Guidelines for the Cataloguing of Rare Books
  First issued in 1997 by the Rare Books and Special Collections Group of CILIP. The 2007 revision is available online. It has an illustrated section on recording provenance data.

• Gunilla Jonsson and Mirna Willer, Provenance information and authority control – a discussion paper.
  A discussion document with examples in MARC21 and UNIMARC, prepared for CERL’s Advisory Task Group (March 2005). This paper is offered for discussion. Comments should be sent to the author: Mrs Gunilla Jonsson, Deputy National Librarian, Department of Collection Development and Documentation, Kungliga Biblioteket, Box 5039, SE 102 41 Stockholm, Sweden.
  Email: gunilla.jonsson@kb.se.
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• Tony Curwen and Gunilla Jonsson, ‘Provenance and the Itinerary of the Book: recording provenance data in on-line catalogues’, in: CERL Papers VII. Imprints and owners: Recording the cultural geography of Europe (David Shaw, ed.). Papers presented on 10 November 2006 at the CERL Seminar hosted by the National Széchényi Library, Budapest. London, Consortium of European Research Libraries, 2007. 13-digit ISBN 978-0-9541535-6-4, 10-digit ISBN 0-9541535-6-1.

• Monique Hulvey, European Printed Heritage and the Study of Provenance
  Paper given by Monique Hulvey (Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon) at a CERL Seminar at the National and University Library, Zagreb, Croatia, on 10 March 2005. View PDF file in your browser (7MB). To return to the CERL website, please use the back-button of your browser.

• Diego Navarro Bonilla, «Las huellas de la lectura: marcas y anotaciones manuscritas en impresos de los siglos XVI a XVIII», en Antonio Castillo Gómez (ed.), Libro y lectura en la Península Ibérica y América (siglos XIII a XVIII), Valladolid: Junta de Castilla y León, 2003, 243-287

• Provenienzportal, Stiftung Weimar Klassik
  The Duchess Anna Amalia Library intends to establish a provenance access point. It will include a web-thesaurus of provenance terms and a search engine specialising in provenance features. It will co-ordinate heterogeneous resources such as librarian databases, image databases, full text databases and electronic dictionaries and present them on a homogeneous surface. Initially, it will be presenting in simple format the draft of the thesaurus and an annotated list of databases containing provenance information.

• Whose book was it anyway? Book ownership and provenance
  The CILIP Rare Books Group annual study conference, held at New Hall, Cambridge in September 2005, was on the theme of provenance research and methodologies. The Group’s Rare Books Newsletter (76, December 2005) contains excellent summary reports of the papers given at the conference.

• Wolfenbütteler Notizen zur Buchgeschichte (29, 2004, Heft 1–2)
  A special issue of the periodical has been given over to provenance research.
  The table of contents is:
  • Armin Schlechter, Thomas Stäcker, Auf den Spuren der Bücher -– Provenienzforschung und ihre Probleme.
  • Jos M.M. Hermans, Ex origine lux: Besitz- und Benutzerangaben als Schlüssel zum Verständnis von Handschrift und Frühdruck.
  • Jürgen Leonhardt, Gedruckte humanistische Kolleghefte als Quelle für Buch- und Bildungsgeschichte.
  • Paul Needham, The Late Use of Incunables and the Paths of Book Survival.
  • Chris Coppens, Provenances: Files & profiles.
  • Susanne Knackmuß, Ein preußischer helluo librorum des 17. Jahrhunderts und seine animadversiunculae: eine bibliotheksgeschichtliche Entdeckung in den Sammlungen des Berlinischen Gymnasiums zum Grauen Kloster.
  • Bettina Wagner, Von Adam bis Zwykopf. Die Inkunabelsammlung der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek und ihre Provenienzen.
  • Jürgen Weber, Thesaurus der Provenienzbegriffe. Konzeption und Anwendung.
  • Johannes Moetsch, Das Provenienzprinzip im Archiv.
  • Jutta Bendt, Provenienzen und Profile. Aspekte bestands- und exemplarspezifischer Erschließung im Deutschen Literaturarchiv.
  • Armin Schlechter, Jüngere pfalzgräfliche Bestände aus den Neuburger, Düsseldorfer und Mannheimer Hofbibliotheken in Heidelberg.