Recipients of 2024 Grants

The CERL Grant Committee awarded six CERL Grants:

1. To catalogue incunabula at Gonville & Caius College, Cambridgeto Seosamh Mac Cárthaigh (Ireland), with a PhD in Anglo-Saxon Norse and Celtic and internships at the British Library and Dublin DIAS to Catalogue pre-1600 Irish manuscripts.
2. To catalogue incunabula at the Huntington Library, San Marino Californiato Jackson Hartigan (US/UK), an MPhil student at Cambridge working on Lorenzo Pignoria’s De servis (1613) and student work experience at Williams College Chapin Library.
3. 3. To work on map-inc (Mapping incunabula in Greek libraries) and CERL’s Provenance Digital Archive (PDA) at the Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation, Piraeus, Greece to Tom Mackinnon (UK), Library assistant at the National Portrait Gallery of London.
4. 4. To describe provenance marks of the Fagel Collection, Library of Trinity College Dublin, in the Provenance Digital Archive (PDA) of CERL to Costanza Ficorella (Italy/Ireland), Assistant Archivist, Office of Public Works, National Monuments Services, Dublin, with an MA in Archivistics, Diplomatics and Palaeography from the University of Ferrara and a MSt in Jewish Studies from the Univ. of Oxford.
5. 5. To catalogue incunabula at the University Library of Naplesto Valeria Cesaraccio (Italy/UK), a PhD student in Renaissance Studies at the University of Warwick, working on education in 16th-century Italy, with an BA from the Univ. of Sassari and a MA from the Univ. of Turin.
6. To match incunable holdings with ISTC numbers at Utrecht Universityto Martina Uvale (Italy), with a Master’s degree in Library and Archival Sciences from the Univ. of Bologna, a period at the Universitat de València working on Aragonese manuscripts, an Erasmus at the Univ. Complutense of Madrid.

We received 14 applications from Greece (5, one based in the NL); Ireland (1); Italy (5, two based in the UK, one based in Ireland); Spain (1); United Kingdom (1); United States (1, based in the UK). 7 early career scholars or librarianship students. 7 early career librarians or professionals. 10 female and 4 male applicants.