This page contains the grants awarded by CERL between 2014 and 2021, including information such as the recipients and the number of participants.
2020-21 – Due to Corona, no grants were awarded. On 27 January 2021, a number of CERL Junior Fellows presented the research they did in the context of the CERL Grant Scheme and/or their current research. The programme, presentation slides and a link to the recording of the online session can be found here.
2019 – Exceptionally, recipients of the 2019/20 grants were allowed to do their placement at a library in their own city or country. In one or two cases, when it was not possible to arrange even that, recipients of the grant planned to work from home on CERL databases: 1) Martyna Osuch (Poland) Special collections librarian in the Early Printed Books Department, University of Warsaw Library; PhD student, University of Warsaw (first year of Interdisciplinary Doctoral School). Cataloguing the incunabula of the Metropolitan Seminary Library in Warsaw into MEI. 2) Camilla Marangoni (Italy) Master’s degree in Archaeology and Art History, Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, Milan) transferring data from the Catalogue of the Laurenziana Library of Florence into MEI. 3) Anna de Bruyn (NL) PhD student at the University of Groningen, Cataloguing the incunabula of Groningen UL into MEI.
2018 – The CERL Grant Committee awarded five CERL Grants: 1) To catalogue the collection of incunabula at the University Library of Cambridge to Marianna Morreale (Italy), with a degree in Archival and Library Studies from the University of Rome, Italy, a Master in Museology and Cultural Heritage Management from the Catholic University of Milan, and internship experience (“Torno subito” from Regione Lazio) working on the digital provenance archive at the Marciana National Library, Venice; 2-3) To catalogue the collection of incunabula at the Huntington Library, San Marino to Martyna Grzesiak (Poland/UK), a DPhil Student in Italian and Book History at the University of Oxford who is working on the distribution and use of the Bibles printed in Italian in the fifteenth century, and to Maria José Rucio Zamorano (Spain), Head of the Manuscripts and Incunabula Department of the National Library of Spain, Madrid, with expertise in Iberian incunabula. As Ms Rucio Zamorano was unable to go to the US, the grant was offered to Elena Fogolin (Italy/Germany), a graduate of the University of Udine with an Erasmus + at the Gutenberg Museum of Mainz; 4) To catalogue the collection of incunabula at the Beinecke Library, Yale, to Niamh Delaney (UK), Assistant Librarian in the Special Collections Department of the University of Liverpool, with degrees from the University of Glasgow and St Andrews and a Master in Library and Information Studies from University College, London; 5) To work on CERL’s PDA in The Hague (Digital Humanities Grant) to Fabiano Cataldo de Azevedo, Professor of the Universidade Federal do Estado do Rio de Janeiro (UNIRIO), where is part of the School of Librarianship and teaches History of the Book and Libraries. A member of IFLA’s Rare Books and Special Collection Section, initially as a Corresponding Member (2014-2015) and later as a member of the Standing Committee (2015-2019). As Prof. Cataldo was unable to go to The Hague the grant was offered to Lucrezia Signorello (Italy), a graduate of Rome La Sapienza University with working experience at ICCU and other Rome libraries. In 2020 Lucrezia won a PhD position at the University of Rome “La Sapienza” to work on a project about the reconstruction of the library of the Augustinian convent of Santa Maria del Popolo (Rome) in the 16th century. Supervisor Valentina Sestini, co-supervisor Paolo Tinti.
We received 27 applications from Brazil (1), Hungary (2), Lithuania (2), Italy (15), Spain (2), UK (4), Poland (1). 4 Male and 23 female. 8 librarians or library trainees, 19 early career scholars or students. The Huntington and Cambridge offered matching funds to secure longer internships. The Beinecke Library, Yale offered a full grant and also invited last year’s grantees, Beatrice Alai and James Missons, to spend another period working with their incunabula collections.
2017 – The CERL Grant Committee awarded four CERL Grants: 1) To catalogue the collection of incunabula at Cambridge University Library to Ester Peric (Italy), a Master student in Italian Philology and Book History from the University of Udine, Italy, with experience in archival documents and an Erasmus + in Manchester spent cataloguing incunabula at the John Rylands University Library. Peric gained a place in the four-year Doctorate programme ‘Testi, Tradizioni e Culture del Libro. Studi italiani e romanzi’ at the University of Naples (coord. Prof. Andrea Mazzucchi), starting Nov. 2019; 2) To catalogue the collection of incunabula at Edinburgh National Library to Krisztina Rábai (Hungary), Assistant Professor in Medieval and Book History at the University of Szeged, Hungary, with experience in monastic library collections; 3) To catalogue the collection of incunabula at the Beinecke Library in Yale to Beatrice Alai (Italy), from Cesena, Italy, with degrees in History of Art and Palaeography from the University of Florence and Padua and currently on a postdoctoral fellowship in Berlin to work on the incunabula collection of the Kupferstichkabinett in Berlin; 4) To James Misson (UK), a DPhil student in English Literature from the University of Oxford, with experience in English Palaeography and in cataloguing in MEI incunabula from Oxford colleges.
25 applications were received from Australia (1), Austria (1), Canada (1), Hungary (1), Italy (12, 4 of which living abroad), Japan (1), Spain (1), Netherlands (3), New Zeland (1), UK (1), US (1), Poland (1). 8 Male and 17 female. 11 librarians or library trainees or students, 14 early career scholars. The three hosting libraries offered matching funds to secure a longer internship. A report of their activities is available here.
2016 – Three interns began to enrich MEI entries for the incunables held at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek, the National Library of the Netherlands, in The Hague: Ruben Celani (Italy), Judit Kolumban (Romania) and Maria O’Shea (Ireland). The KB was able to offer a Gerard van Thienen Grant to Lauren Leenders (the Netherlands), to strengthen the team. The team was supervised by Dr Marieke van Delft, Curator Early Printed Collections, KB The Hague. A report of their activities is available here.
2015 – The CERL Grant Committee awarded two CERL Grants to: 1) Francesca Rocchi (Italy), a graduate in Latin Palaeography of La Sapienza University, Rome, with previous internship experience at the Biblioteca Casanatense in Rome, to work within the Special Collections Department of the Bodleian Library, Oxford. A report of her activities is available here; 2) Thomas Theyssens (Belgium), a graduate in Early Modern History from the University of Louvain, with a Master in Heritage Management in Libraries from the University of Antwerp, to work within the Printed Heritage Collections Department of the British Library, London. A report of his activities is available here.
CERL received 21 applications from Belgium (4), Germany (1), France (1), Italy (6), Latvia (1), Netherlands (1), Poland (1), Slovenia (1), Spain (1), UK (4); 9 early career librarians, 12 early career scholars; 4 male, 17 female.
2014 – Angéline Rais (Switzerland) – Cataloguing the incunabula collection of Lambeth Palace Library, London in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database. Article
