Project details
- Project Officer/PI: Cristina Dondi
- Duration: 2024-2028
- Funding Body: Italian Ministry of Research Funding Programme Fondo Italiano per la Scienza (FIS)
Project overview
Printing Revolution and American Collections (PrintRevUS) is a four-year project based at Sapienza University, Rome, investigating the migration of 15th‑century European printed books (incunabula) to libraries in the United States during periods of political change.
Coordinated by Cristina Dondi, Secretary of CERL, the project focuses on Italian editions and includes cataloguing all incunabula in the Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI) database and uploading provenance images to the CERL Provenance Digital Archive (PDA).
The project involves collaboration with US and European libraries, as well as international partners including the British Library, the Bodleian Library, and the University of Oxford, providing open-access digital resources for the study of early printed books and their historical circulation.
