====== Statistics of the CERL Thesaurus ====== === From 22-10-2026 === ==== Records ==== ^Number^Designation^ | **1580125**|total records| | || | **36744**|**IMPRINT PLACE NAMES**| | 36040|non-fictional names| | 260|fictional names| | 129|identification uncertain| | 315|names used for more than one place| | || | **107405**|**IMPRINT NAMES**| | 106805|non-fictional names| | 525|fictional names| | 48|identification uncertain| | 27|names used for more than one imprint name| | || | **1398142**|**PERSONAL NAMES**| | 1267908|non-fictional names| | 10010|fictional names| | 107597|identification uncertain| | 12627|names used for more than one person| | || | **37833**|**CORPORATE BODY NAMES**| | 37430|non-fictional names| | 401|fictional names| | 1|identification uncertain| | 1|names used for more than one corporate body| \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:records_type.svg |Types of records }} \\ ==== Provenance information ==== ^Record type^Total records^Records with linked provenance information^ |Personal names | 1398142| 27023| |Corporate body names | 37833| 4205| \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:provenance_persons.svg |Personal name records with linked provenance information }} \\ \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:provenance_corporate.svg |Corporate body name records with linked provenance information }} \\ \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:provenance.svg |Records with linked provenance information }} \\ ==== Variant name forms ==== ^Number^Designation^ | **3162465**|total variant name forms| | || | 67117|total variant name forms **IMPRINT PLACES** | | 66166|//- thereof non-fictional name forms//| | 951|//- thereof fictional name forms//| | || | 185005|total variant name forms **IMPRINT NAMES**| | 183101|//- thereof non-fictional name forms//| | 1904|//- thereof fictional name forms//| | || | 2845374|total variant name forms **PERSONAL NAMES**| | 2794052|//- thereof non-fictional name forms//| | 51322|//- thereof fictional name forms//| | || | 64969|total variant name forms **CORPORATE BODY NAMES**| | 64967|//- thereof non-fictional name forms//| | 2|//- thereof fictional name forms//| ==== Standard forms ==== ^Number^Designation^ | **1722122**|total standard forms| | || | **22238**|total standard forms **IMPRINT PLACE NAMES**| | 21828|imprint place names (default)| | 203|fictional imprint place names| | 121|identification of entities uncertain| | 86|imprint place names used for more than one entity| | || | **107164**|total standard forms **IMPRINT NAMES**| | 106561|imprint names (default)| | 528|fictional imprint names| | 48|identification of entities uncertain| | 27|imprint names used for more than one entity| | || | **1554898**|total standard forms **PERSONAL NAMES**| | 1420478|personal names (default)| | 11698|fictional personal names| | 110066|identification of entities uncertain| | 12656|personal names used for more than one entity| | || | **37822**|total standard forms **CORPORATE BODY NAMES**| | 37755|corporate body names (default)| | 66|fictional corporate body names| | 1|identification of entities uncertain| | 0|corporate body names used for more than one entity| ==== Other information ==== ^Number^Designation^ | 1970766|source references ('Found in')| | 951767|imprint sources| | 1213938|general notes| | 1463556|biographical dates / dates of activity| | 1915106|activity notes| | 1741903|geographical notes| | 544440|related personal names| | 39024|related imprint names| | 147507|related corporate names| | 1188002|place of activity notes| | 52402|printer's devices etc. notes| | 60069|online resources (Hyperlinks)| | 2742635|remote access to external systems| | 67847|//- thereof to STCN//| | 38190|//- thereof to provenance information//| ==== De-duplicating ==== ^Number^Designation^ | **500439**|merged records in total| | 165145|records resulting from merger| | 135998|//- thereof records edited manually//| | 288898|cases, in which merging of records has been refused| | 677250|remaining references to probably duplicate records| | 1770|//- thereof in records with standard forms marked as 'identification uncertain'//| \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:merged_total.svg |Merged records in relation to total record count }} \\ ==== Origin of authority data ==== ^ Country of origin ^ File owner ^ Code ^ total ^ cnl ^ cni ^ cnp ^ cnc ^ caf ^ | Austria | The Bernstein Consortium | ''AtBPA'' | **2127** | 2127 | | | | | | Belgium | Katholieke Universiteit Leuven | ''ODIS'' | **65** | | 65 | | | | | Belgium | Bibliotheek van de Universiteit Antwerpen | ''STCV'' | **1502** | | 1502 | | | | | Canada | The Women's Print History Project, Canada | ''WPHP'' | **14965** | | 4193 | 5560 | 5212 | | | Croatia | Nacionalna i Sveucilišna Knjižnica | ''NSK, NSB'' | **943** | 178 | 765 | | | | | Czech Republic | The National Museum Library, Prague (Czech Republic) | ''aba010'' | **355** | | | 13 | 342 | | | Denmark | Det Kongelige Bibliotek København | ''DkKoKB'' | **1505** | | 1505 | | | | | France | Bibliothèque nationale de France | ''BNF'' | **221385** | | 16511 | 192148 | 12726 | | | France | Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon | ''FrLy'' | **1148** | | | 946 | 202 | | | France | Fondation Custodia | ''MarCus'' | **4179** | | | 3566 | 613 | | | Germany | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München | ''BSB,VD16'' | **14538** | | 1930 | 12608 | | | | Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | ''DE-588a'' | **4045** | | | 4045 | | | | Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | ''DE-588b'' | **1080** | | | | 1080 | | | Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | ''DE-588c'' | **509** | | | 455 | 54 | | | Germany | Bibliotheksverbund Bayern | ''DE-604'' | **61** | | | 61 | | | | Germany | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | ''DE-611'' | **4208** | | | 3746 | 462 | | | Germany | HANS, SUB Göttingen (Germany) | ''DE-7-HANS'' | **8012** | | | 6032 | 1980 | | | Germany | Deutsches Musikarchiv, Berlin | ''DMA'' | **10** | | | 10 | | | | Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | ''GND'' | **843557** | 16415 | 28227 | 798915 | | | | Germany | Germania Sacra Online | ''GScrO'' | **39229** | | | 38185 | 1044 | | | Germany | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | ''GYBL'' | **227** | | | 174 | 53 | | | Germany | Franckesche Stiftungen Halle Bibliothek | ''GYHF'' | **5** | | | 4 | 1 | | | Germany | Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz Bibliothek, Hannover | ''GYHN'' | **3** | | | 3 | | | | Germany | Bayerische Staatsbibliothek München | ''GYMG'' | **6866** | 2760 | | 3682 | 424 | | | Germany | Universitätsbibliothek Rostock | ''GYRU'' | **29** | | | 28 | 1 | | | Germany | Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek, Weimar | ''GYWH'' | **598** | | | 472 | 126 | | | Germany | Freie Universität Berlin | ''GyBFU'' | **178** | | | 178 | | | | Germany | Gemeinsamer Biblitoheksverbund | ''GyGoGBV'' | **195375** | | 13894 | 178716 | 2765 | | | Germany | Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Göttingen | ''GyGoN'' | **313** | | | 216 | 97 | | | Germany | Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg | ''GyHaS'' | **4** | | | 4 | | | | Germany | Herzog-August-Bibliothek Wolfenbüttel | ''GyWbHAB'' | **2083** | | | 1825 | 258 | | | Germany | Mainzer early-modern academics’ libraries | ''MABFN'' | **58** | | | 58 | | | | Germany | Deutsche Nationalbibliothek | ''PND'' | **5307** | | 99 | 5208 | | | | Germany | Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin | ''SBB-TW'' | **4140** | | 4140 | | | | | Germany | Institut Deutsche Presseforschung, Universität Bremen | ''UBrm'' | **749** | | | 749 | | | | Germany | Memoriae renovatae decades (CAMENA),(Germany) | ''witte_memoriae'' | **214** | | | 214 | | | | Hungary | National Széchényi Library, Budapest | ''HUBpOSK'' | **543** | 543 | | | | | | Italy | Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico | ''ICCU'' | **15614** | | 2713 | 11716 | 1185 | | | Italy | Biblioteca Nazionale di Napoli | ''IT-NA0079'' | **209** | | | 156 | 53 | | | Italy | Biblioteca nazionale centrale Vittorio Emanuele II Roma | ''IT-RM0267'' | **198** | | | 60 | 138 | | | Italy | Biblioteca Casanatense, Roma | ''IT-RM0313'' | **379** | | | 317 | 62 | | | Italy | Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana Venezia | ''IT-VE0049'' | **1398** | | | 1228 | 170 | | | Italy | RICI database | ''RICI'' | **7131** | | | 6227 | 904 | | | The Netherlands | Koninklijke Bibliotheek | ''NL-HaKB'' | **54823** | 301 | 12131 | 42256 | 135 | | | The Netherlands | Universiteit Utrecht | ''NL-UtRU'' | **762** | | 762 | | | | | The Netherlands | Koninklijke Bibliotheek | ''NeNKHB'' | **11777** | | | 11777 | | | | Poland | Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie | ''BUW'' | **3694** | | | 3298 | 396 | | | Poland | Biblioteka Narodowa, Warszawa | ''PlWaBN'' | **16407** | | 621 | 15718 | 68 | | | Poland | NUKAT union catalogue of Polish academic and research libraries | ''nukat'' | **15699** | | 3055 | 12244 | 400 | | | Poland | Biblioteka Ossolineum | ''plolw'' | **6824** | | 1536 | 5133 | 155 | | | Poland | Biblioteka Uniwersytecka w Warszawie | ''plwau'' | **5020** | 1 | 539 | 4219 | 261 | | | Poland | Wroclaw University Library (Poland) | ''plwro'' | **7009** | | 1880 | 4996 | 133 | | | Russia | National Library of Russia | ''RuNLR'' | **6647** | | 1963 | 4529 | 155 | | | Slovakia | Slovak National Library | ''MaSNL'' | **149** | | 55 | 94 | | | | Spain | CANTIC | ''CANTIC'' | **4444** | | | 4374 | 70 | | | Spain | Biblioteca de Catalunya, Barcelona | ''ES-BaCBU'' | **4521** | | | 4452 | 69 | | | Spain | Universitat de Barcelona | ''ES-BaUB'' | **6499** | | 4611 | 1714 | 174 | | | Spain | Biblioteca de la Universidad de Salamanca | ''ES-SlU'' | **2233** | | | 2131 | 102 | | | Spain | Biblioteca Nacional de España | ''SpMaBN'' | **648** | | 648 | | | | | Spain | Biblioteca de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid | ''SpMaUC'' | **1207** | | | 1029 | 178 | | | Switzerland | Universitätsbibliothek Basel | ''SzBaU'' | **1306** | | | 1145 | 161 | | | United Kingdom | Book Owners Online | ''BOO'' | **2902** | | | 2902 | | | | United Kingdom | Consortium of European Research Libraries | ''CERL'' | **1973** | | | 1883 | 90 | | | United Kingdom | British Library | ''ESTC'' | **53335** | | | 49628 | 3707 | | | United Kingdom | University of Glasgow Library | ''GlU-inc'' | **1348** | | 425 | 755 | 168 | | | United Kingdom | National Library of Scotland | ''NLS-SBTI'' | **8197** | | 8197 | | | | | United Kingdom | National Library of Scotland | ''NLS-SSP'' | **197** | 197 | | | | | | United Kingdom | Owners of Incunabula, CERL database | ''OWNINC'' | **16998** | | | 13900 | 3098 | | | United Kingdom | Poets Laureate in the Holy Roman Empire | ''PRFL'' | **66** | | | 66 | | | | United Kingdom | University of Aberdeen Library | ''StAbUL'' | **1343** | | | 1281 | 62 | | | United Kingdom | British Library | ''Uk'' | **1207** | | 1207 | 161 | 8 | | | United Kingdom | Canterbury Cathedral Libraries | ''UkCyCl'' | **1201** | | | 1072 | 129 | | | United Kingdom | Middle Temple Library, London | ''UkMiTe'' | **169** | | | 161 | 8 | | | United States | Library of Congress (United States) | ''DLC'' | **83** | | | 83 | | | | United States | The Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names | ''TGN'' | **1** | 1 | | | | | //Not in this list are the Cathedral Libraries Catalogue (UK) and the Royal Library of Stockholm (S).// \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:origin_cnl.svg |Origin of imprint place data }} \\ \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:origin_cni.svg |Origin of imprint name data }} \\ \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:origin_cnp.svg |Origin of personal name data }} \\ \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:origin_cnc.svg |Origin of corporate body name data }} \\ ==== Editing ==== **Please note:** These statistics on editing activities over the years are not constant because upon merger of two records, editing signatures from one of the records are lost. DCG aims to provide a more meaningful retrospective constant overview in due course. === Created records === ^Year^total^cnl^cni^cnp^cnc^ |2011| **218**| 14| 2| 201| 1| |2012| **287**| 5| 2| 232| 48| |2013| **318**| 3| 2| 168| 145| |2014| **636**| 12| 2| 314| 308| |2015| **559**| 17| 48| 366| 128| |2016| **22**| 14| | 4| 4| |2017| **22**| 10| | 1| 11| |2018| **9**| 6| | 3| | |2019| **249**| 86| | 119| 44| |2020| **143**| 104| | 32| 7| |2021| **225**| 17| 1| 190| 17| |2022| **144**| 27| | 88| 29| |2023| **158**| 2| 1| 149| 6| |2024| **59**| 5| | 50| 4| |2025| **58**| 2| | 43| 13| |2026| **371**| 31| 1| 267| 72| ^total^ 4074^ 881^ 103^ 2249^ 841^ === Edited records === ^Year^total^cnl^cni^cnp^cnc^ |2010| **8426**| 775| 36| 7525| 90| |2011| **9407**| 1151| 81| 8170| 5| |2012| **2810**| 187| 29| 2571| 23| |2013| **8649**| 53| 61| 8134| 401| |2014| **3554**| 222| 40| 2544| 748| |2015| **5538**| 225| 46| 4334| 933| |2016| **4469**| 176| 53| 3464| 776| |2017| **2596**| 75| 43| 2255| 223| |2018| **3293**| 1191| 18| 1931| 153| |2019| **5257**| 2306| 189| 2375| 387| |2020| **13680**| 847| 745| 11743| 345| |2021| **16010**| 45| 291| 15668| 6| |2022| **2014**| 258| 3| 1736| 17| |2023| **898**| 9| 94| 744| 51| |2024| **768**| 7| 11| 745| 5| |2025| **551**| 2| 28| 507| 14| |2026| **725**| 28| 22| 562| 113| ^total^ 152080^ 8985^ 2257^ 136518^ 4320^ \\ {{ :resources:cerl_thesaurus:edited_total.svg |Edited records in relation to total record count}} \\ \\ {{ resources:cerl_thesaurus:edited.svg |Editing records}} \\