The CERL Grant Committee awarded six CERL Grants:
- 1. To catalogue in MEI the incunabula of Marsh’s Library, Dublin, to Sara D’Amico (Italy), a cataloguer at the Biblioteca dell’Archivio Centrale dello Stato, Rome, with an Erasmus traineeship at the John Rylands Library in Manchester, and a MA in Library Science from “La Sapienza” University of Rome.
- 2. To catalogue in MEI incunabula from the collection of the Dukes of Arenberg, in Brussels, to Antonia Delle Fratte (Italy), an early career scholar with an internship at the Biblioteca Vallicelliana of Rome, and an MA in the History of Art (manuscript illumination and history of collections) from “La Sapienza” University of Rome.
- 3. To train in the use of MEI the incunabulists of the Biblioteca Nacional of Madridto Elena Fogolin (Italy/Germany), CERL grantee 2018/19 to the Huntington Library in San Marino and a PhD student at the universities of Udine/Mainz.
- 4. To catalogue in MEI incunabula from the database ‘Medieval Libraries of Great Britain’ (MLGB3) to Vanessa Rossi (Italy), librarian at the Bruno Kessler Foundation, Trento, working on a digitization project; with a diploma in Archivistica, Paleografia e Diplomatica from the State Archive of Bolzano; and an MA in Euro-American Literature from the University of Trento.
- 5. To work with CERL’s Retrospective National Bibliographies Working Group to Dr Olga Tkachuk (Ukraine/Poland), Special collections librarian in the Early Printed Books Department, the Ossoliński National Institute in Wrocław (Poland); former Head of the Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Department at the National Museum in Lviv (Ukraine); with a PhD in Philology.
- To work with CERL’s Security Network to Jordyn Anable (US/France), a Masters student in the University of Bourgogne Franche-Comté’s Rare Books and Digital Humanities programme.
We received 17 applications from Germany (1), Greece (1), France (1), India (1), Ireland (1), Italy (8), Poland (1), UK (2), US (1). 12 early career scholars or librarianship students. 5 early career librarians. 14 female and 3 male applicants.
