CERL has been acknowledged as a research institute, and as a project partner it benefits from the input, knowledge and expertise of its widespread network of European research libraries and staff. This is why over the years we have participated in several European projects, among others with the Europeana Foundation, The European Library, LIBER and communities of digital humanities researchers.
Authority records describing geographic areas - used for supporting display and retrieval in MEI.
The Book of Books database supports the virtual reconstruction of the library of Hernando Colón (1488-1539), combining the information from his Libro de los epítomes with data e.g. from modern library catalogues.
Authority records for persons, printers, corporate entities and places until approx. 1830.
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.
The English Short Title Catalogue (ESTC) is the authoritative database of material printed in the English-speaking world before 1801.
This is a database of holdings in the ESTC. It is not searchable, but all holdings information can be found in the English Short Title Catalogue.
Family names and titles contained in the “General Index of Siebmacher’s Armorials 1605–1961”, with links to full text.
Authority records for holding institutions - used for supporting display and retrieval in ISTC, MEI, PPD and PDA
The Heritage of the Printed Book (HPB) database contains bibliographical records for items of European printing of the hand-press period held at major European and North American research libraries
You can use this tool to annotate items recorded in the Heritage of the Printed Book database with provenance information.
The Index Possessorum Incunabulorum (IPI) contains names and details of owners of incunabula gathered by Paul Needham.
The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue is the international database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library with contributions from institutions worldwide.
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.
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.
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
Satellite database of Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) in which biographical information on former and present owners, both personal and institutional, is brought together.
Names, trades and addresses of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850, curated by the National Library of Scotland.
The Provenance Digital Archive (PDA) contains images and descriptions of provenance evidence and supports users in identifying former owners' marks.
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 Scottish Book Trade Index (SBTI) is curated by the National Library of Scotland and contains names, trades and addresses of people involved in printing in Scotland up to 1850.
The Short-Title Catalogue Netherlands (STCN) is the national bibliography of the Netherlands up to the year 1801. It comprises detailed descriptions of many thousands works printed in the Netherlands or in the Dutch language.
The VD Zürich database is a digital bibliography listing all items produced by letterpress printing in Zürich between 1479 to and 1830.