​​​​​​Provenance Databases

The Material Evidence in Incunabula is a database specifically designed to record and search the material evidence of 15th-century printed books: ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, stamps, prices, etc

The Polish Provenance Database (PPD) collects, stores and shares information about material evidence (such as ownership marks, bindings, reading marks) of books printed after 1501 that are related to historical or modern Poland.

The database records the circulation of scientific knowledge in early modern Italy through the study of annotated copies of books on the three natural realms, of pharmacopoeia, recipe books and regimina sanitatis.

Names, trades and addresses of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850, curated by the National Library of Scotland.

Material from research into book collections of Mainz citizens with an academic background and members of the lower / middle clergy around 1600, prepared by Christina Schmitz.

Early Book Owners in Britain (EBOB) is a record of British provenances for the time period from 1450 to 1550 gathered by Margaret Lane Ford.

Satellite database of Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) in which biographical information on former and present owners, both personal and institutional, is brought together.

Family names and titles contained in the “General Index of Siebmacher’s Armorials 1605–1961”, with links to full text.

You can use this tool to annotate items recorded in the Heritage of the Printed Book database with provenance information.