The CERL Grant Committee is very pleased to announce the conferment of six CERL Grants:
1. To catalogue incunabula at the Huntington Library, San Marino California to Taisa Baeva (Russia/Italy), a BA Student of Global Humanities at Sapienza University of Rome who is writing her dissertation on incunabula from Russian libraries sold in the first half of the 20th century.
2. To catalogue incunabula at the Beinecke Library, Yale University to Elena Botturi (Italy), with an MA from the University of Bologna and a dissertation on the provenance of Venetian incunabula held at the Biblioteca Histórica of the University of Valencia.
3. To catalogue incunabula at the Beinecke Library, Yale University to Paolo Sachet (Italy), a member of the Printing Revolution and American Collections team, Sapienza University of Rome.
4. To catalogue incunabula at Pembroke College, Oxford to Alexandra Ballová (Czech Republic), a Special Collections Librarian in Bratislava and PhD student at Masaryk University, Brno.
5. To catalogue early printed books at Montefiascone (Viterbo, Italy), Biblioteca Seminario minore vescovile Barbarigo to Konrad Szymański (Poland), a curator of early printed books at the Ossolinski National Institute (Ossolineum), Wrocław.
6. To catalogue early printed books at the Venerable English College, Rome to Sarah Cusk (UK), antiquarian cataloguer at Lincoln College Library, Oxford.
We received 17 applications from Belgium (1), Brazil (1), Czech Rep. (1), Italy (4) Mauritius/Italy (1), Poland (2), Russia/Italy (1), Spain (4), Spain/NL (1), UK (1). 7 students or early career scholars; 2 librarians/students; 8 librarians.
