CERL Newsletters

– A word from the Editorial Team … 1
– Metadata … 2
– Official launch of the Polish Provenance Database on the CERL platform … 2
– Projects and ongoing research … 3
– Interpreting provenance for a public audience: ‘Making Visible’ at the Royal College of Physicians, London … 3
– Project on women’s libraries at HAB Wolfenbüttel: Fürstinnenbibliotheken und Wissenspraktiken im deutschsprachigen Raum des 18. Jahrhunderts: Rekonstruktion, Funktion und Bedeutung … 4
– Books, Bindings, and Dispersal: Provenance Research on the Host Volumes of the Old English N-Psalter … 4
– Spanish project: library of the Duques de Osuna led by the Rare Book’s Group of REBIUN (Red de Bibliotecas Universitarias Españolas) … 6
– Exploring the founding collection: Benedykt of Koźmin’s donation for the University of Krakow … 7
– The project Registration of incunabula provenance in Poland (stage II) … 8
– The project Books of Duchesses: Mapping Women Book Owners, 1350–1550 … 8
– The provenance collection of Archibald Corble: the digitisation of the printed works by KU Leuven Libraries … 9
– The project Mirabilium Collectio… 10
– Case studies … 11
– The mystery of the replica paper piano keyboard that found its way from the personal imperial library of Austrian Empress Elisabeth, ‘Sisi’, to the National Library of Scotland … 11
– Provenance of the Lust-hoofken printed by Jan Amelisz in 1621 … 13
– Provenance in the Italian library of Kathleen Butler (1883-1950) of Cambridge … 15
– Provenances of the Livonian Knighthood Library … 16
– Internships and fellowships … 18
– A MEI-Internship at the Special Collections of Utrecht University Library … 18
– The program Courants du monde – Parcours de collections 2025 in Bibliothèque nationale de France … 19
– The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation Fellowship: The Bildarchiv of the Prussian State Library … 20
– Chronicle 2025 … 21
– Tiny, mighty, precious, rare: provenance as part of a book’s opportunity to shine … 21
– Provenance Workshop … 23
– International Provenance Day 2025 … 23
– Zidanku Manuscript Repatriation … 24
– CERL Provenance Working Group Seminars … 24
– RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Provenance markings terms … 25
– Restitutions in Zentral- und Landesbibliothek Berlin … 25
– Restitution of books owned by Raoul Fernand Jellinek-Mercedes … 25
– ENSSIB : Bibliothèques et livres spoliés entre 1933 et 1945, recherche de provenance et restitution, 20 et 21 mai 2025 … 26
– Restitution case in France … 26
– Creation of a research tool on restitutions in France in 1945–1962 … 27
– The exhibition Collecting Ireland’s History : Libraries and the Recovery of Lost Records … 27
– Creation of the Greater Poland Provenance Working Group … 28
– The exhibition Die Prinzessinnenbibliothek. Sofia Albertina von Schweden und ihre Bücher … 28
– The exhibition Hidden – Discovered: Books from the Jesuit Church in the Ukrainian Vasyl Stefanyk Library in Lviv … 29
– Update on the Theft of Rare Russian Books from European Libraries … 29
– Cooperation between Humboldt University and Poznań University on Grimm books … 30
– The conference Bibliofília és bibliográfia in Budapest … 30
– Colloquium in Uppsala … 31
– The Exhibition Bibliophile Peeter Tulviste … 31
– The exhibition Maria Carolina, una regina nel suo mondo di carta. Libri, spartiti, documenti … 31
– Provenance Research on Books and Printed Materials at the Victoria and Albert Museum … 32
– The ILAB Provenance Guide … 32
– Upcoming Events 2026 … 33
– New Books … 38