The study of rare popular books through PATRIMONiT
Speaker(s): Laura Carnelos
Related events: New sources for book history – International Conference
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Collection: CERl conferences
Recorded: November 28, 2017
Abstract:
Laura Carnelos (CERL), The study of rare popular books through PATRIMONiT: a combined methodological approach The British Library preserves today a substantial number of early Italian editions which do not survive in any Italian library and are still not adequately recorded. In order to study the specific material, textual and visual characteristics of these books and their provenance history - that is when and how these books arrived at the BL -, it was created a new database: PATRIMONiT. PATRIMONiT is modelled on MEI and shares with MEI the data model, most of its fields, the index of owners, the geonamesID for the visualisation of the routes taken by books passing from owner to owner and the classification of historical shelfmark patterns.
It also contains its own innovative sections and fields to describe aspects which pertain specifically to popular books (e.g. paper quality and printing defects); to record all the secondary texts in the book, such as prefaces, orations and songs (information already provided for incunabula in the TEXT-inc database); and to include relevant archival documentation related to the examined book. The paper will show how the application of a combined methodological approach (bibliographical and material evidence, correspondence and invoices) and the gathering of the data in a database modelled on MEI permit to examine popular books from an innovative perspective and help mapping the dispersal of 16th-century Italian bibliographical patrimony abroad.
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