MEI is hosted and maintained by CERL, and freely available on its website. It was created by Cristina Dondi, University of Oxford and Secretary of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL), and developed by Alexander Jahnke of Data Conversion Group, University of Göttingen, with funds from the British Academy granted to Dondi and Nigel Palmer in 2009-2011.

Further development was funded by grants received by Cristina Dondi over the years: ERC Consolidator Grant 2014-2019 for the 15cBOOKTRADE Project; Rotschild Foundation Hanadiv Europe 2017 for 15cHEBRAICA; Helen Hamlyn Trust 2017 for cataloguing in Venice; Fondo Italiano per la Scienza 2024-2028 for PrintRevUS.

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MEI is supported by two main groups: Editors, who create and update records in the database, and Advisors, who provide scholarly guidance and methodological oversight for the project. Many libraries worldwide actively participate in the project, contributing data on incunabula copies, provenance, and bibliographic records.

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