CERL at a Glance. Cristina Dondi. Marian Lefferts. and. Athens, Laskaridis Foundation, 20 March /4/2017 2

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2 CERL at a Glance Cristina Dondi and Marian Lefferts Athens, Laskaridis Foundation, 20 March /4/2017 2

3 What is CERL? Libraries Membership organisation Collaboration of specialist librarians, ITs, and scholarly community Early printed books and Manuscripts Place our collections in context Promote and exchange expertise Develop and sustain integrated tools and services 4/4/2017 3

4 NETWORK Coordinating Committee Working Groups (e.g. bookbinding, provenance) Seminars and conferences Manutius Network 2015 Sponsoring of target events CERL Internship and Placement Grant Manuscript Librarians Expert Group Security Network Publications and Newsletter LIBER Forum for Digital Cultural Heritage EU-funded Projects 4/4/2017 4

5 Space for scholarly research to be disseminated and used by wider public Paul Needham s Index Possessorum Incunabulorum (IPI) Meg Ford s Early Book Owners in Britain (EBOB) Eric White s Researching Print-runs C. Dondi s MEI 4/4/2017 5

6 Working Groups Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) CERL Thesaurus Material Evidence in Incunabula CERL Portal Promotion of CERL's Activities and Services Book Bindings Provenance and Standards for the description of Provenance Evidence Manuscripts Security Network 4/4/2017 6

7 MANUTIUS NETWORK etwork_2015/main Managed by Paolo Sachet (Warburg PhD candidate) MANUTIUS NETWORK 4/4/2017 7

8 Manutius Network 4/4/2017 8

9 SPONSORING SCHOLARS The Afterlife of Aldus: Posthumous Fame, Collectors and the Book Trade London, The Warburg Institute, 6 Feb Conference organized by Paolo Sachet and Jill Kraye CERL funded attendance of one of the speakers 4/4/2017 9

10 SPONSORING SPEAKERS The Roman Press in the Papal City and in Europe, CERL Seminar 2011 Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, 11 Nov Independent scholar Martin Davies STOP THIEF! Preventing and Investigating Theft from Collections in the Digital Age, CERL Seminar 2013 Warsaw UL, 29 Oct Captain Gianpietro Romano, in charge of the Antiques section of the Carabinieri Operative Department for the protection of Cultural Heritage 4/4/

11 CERL Internship and Placement Grant 1,000 Euros in ,000 Euros in ,000 Euros in 2016 Angeline Rais (CH) > London, Lambeth Palace Francesca Rocchi (IT) > Bodleian Thomas Theyssens (BE) > British Library Ruben Celani (IT) > The Hague Maria O Shea (IE) > The Hague 4/4/ Judith Kolumbán (RO) > The Hague

12 Who is CERL? The Members (over 270 in total) The Coordinating Committee The Directors The Secretariat Chairman: Ulf Göranson, Uppsala Treasurer: Richard Ovenden, Bodleian Oxford Secretary: Cristina Dondi, London and Oxford Executive Manager: Marian Lefferts, The Hague Marie Curie Fellow: Laura Carnelos Executive Officer: Kimberley Hart, London Technical teams Data Conversion Group in Göttingen VZG, Göttingen Electronic Publishing Center in Uppsala 4/4/

13 Membership: 277 Libraries 23 Single members (with 110 clusters) 12 Groups with 125 members 19 Special members Growth 2012: 1 Special (MAK Vienna); 1 Group (Flanders Heritage) 2013: 3 Single (Vienna, Bern UL, ETH-Bibliothek, Zurich); 4 groups (MIBAC, Italy), 2014: 3 groups (Ireland, Scottish Univ, London); 7 Special (BEIC Italy, Latvia, INIST France, UNBCE Italy, Univ Libraries of Heidelberg and Vilnius, Bibl de Catalunia); 9 clusters (to Vienna ONB); addition to Flemish Group 2015: 1 Single (Cambridge UL); 2 Group (Swedish; Norwegian Groups); 14 clusters (to The Hague KL and Munich BSB) 2016: 5 Special (Gennadius; Laskaridis; Ioannou; Onassis; Prague Nat. Museum); 1 cluster (to The Hague KL) 4/4/ : 2 Groups (Swiss; American); 1 Special (St Gallen) 13

14 Coordinating Committee Chair: Prof Ulf Göranson, University Library, Uppsala, and CERL Chairman Secretary: Drs Marian Lefferts, CERL Executive, The Hague Treasurer: Mr Richard Ovenden, Bodleian Library, Oxford Mr Ivan Boserup, Kongelige Biblioteket, Copenhagen Dr Luisa Buson, Centro di Ateneo per le Biblioteche, Padua Dr Per Cullhed, Uppsala University Library Dr Cristina Dondi, CERL Secretary, London and Oxford Dr Adrian Edwards, British Library, London Dr Andreas Fingernagel, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, Vienna Dr Bente Granrud, National Library of Norway, Oslo Dr Anette Hagan, National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh Mrs Monique Hulvey, Bibliothèque municipale, Lyon Mr Alexander Jahnke, Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen Dr Kristian Jensen, British Library, London Dr Katre Kaju, Academic Library of Tallinn University Mr Frédéric Lemmers, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique - Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België, Brussels Mr Jean-Dominique Mellot, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Dr Lucia Negrini, Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico, Rome Dr Ben Outhwaite, Cambridge University Library 4/4/ Dr Marieke van Delft, Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague

15 Board of Directors: strategy Chairman: Prof Ulf Göranson, University Library, Uppsala Secretary: Dr Cristina Dondi, Lincoln College, University of London and Oxford Treasurer: Mr Richard Ovenden, Bodleian Library, Oxford Dr Andrea De Pasquale, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome Prof Pierre Delsaerdt, Flanders Heritage Libraries Group, Antwerp Dr Claudia Fabian, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Munich Ms Hege Høsøien, National Library of Norway, Oslo Mrs Anne Pasquignon, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris Mr Edwin Schroeder, Yale University Library, New Haven 4/4/2017 Prof Jolanta Talbierska, University of Warsaw Library 15

16 BUDGET and Organisation [UPDATE] 350,000 Euro = 411,000 USD Staff: Marian Lefferts full time Kim Hart part time Laura Carnelos project funded Cristina Dondi consultant 3 CT manual editors consultants IT works contractors 4/4/ Everybody else: voluntary

17 Provenance in Bod-inc and Walsh Bod-inc: 4,054 provenance entries Walsh: c.2,650 provenance entries Bod-inc: 1,338 books from 558 different European religious institutions Walsh: 633 books from 346 different European religious institutions 4/4/

18 Provenance in Bod-inc and Walsh Bod-inc: Germany: 778 books from 241 houses Italy: 161 books from 115 houses Walsh: Germany: 297 books from 142 houses Italy: 116 books from 82 houses 4/4/

19 EU-FUNDED PROJECTS Europeana Cloud (pro.europeana.eu/web/europeana-cloud) CENDARI ( 15cBOOKTRADE ( European Dimensions of Popular Print Culture (EDPOP) 4/4/

20 MEI Material Evidence in Incunabula 4/4/

21 MEI Record and research copy specific evidence (provenance, decoration, binding, marginalia, etc.) in combination with bibliographical evidence, derived from the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC-BL) Track the movement of each copy in space and time Include Historical copies, from private collections, and in the trade Free to use and to contribute to Maintained by CERL Funding from British Academy, Italian PRIN, Italian Regional authorities, and ERC grant 4/4/

22 Innovative Approach to sources Physical evidence historical evidence Capturing the movement of the books as evidence of trade and use by tagging geographically and chronologically Integration of provenance records from different sources: book-in-hand, paper catalogues, and electronic ones 4/4/

23 Our collections as disiecta membra 4/4/

24 Historical Copies Provenance records extracted from historical library catalogues of collections now dispersed. Objective: quantification of lost copies and collections. 4/4/

25 MEI Statistics (Mar. 2017) Editions: 9,010 Copies: 21,570 Owners: 10, 162 c. 331 libraries in 10 countries, 2 continents c.100 editors: librarians and scholars 4/4/

26 Reconstruction of a dispersed collection: Venice, S. Giorgio Maggiore, OSB BODLEIAN COPY: Iste liber est monachorum congregationis S. Justine de Padua deputatus in S. Georgii maioris Venetiarum /4/

27 1 copy in Oxford: WHERE ARE THE OTHERS? Biblia Latina Venice: Franciscus Renner, 1480 Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. M 2.12 Bod-inc B-275 German style decoration 4/4/

28 Reconstruction of a dispersed collection: Venice, S. Giorgio Maggiore, OSB 4/4/

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30 TEXT-inc (15cBOOKTRADE) Corpus of texts printed in the 15 century

31 Bod-inc A Catalogue of Books Printed in the Fifteenth Century now in the Bodleian Library, ed. A. Coates, K. Jensen, C. Dondi, B. Wagner, and H. Dixon, 6 vols (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005). Bod-inc: 5,500 eds 4/4/

32 Bod-inc online BOD-INC TEXT-INC 4/4/

33 Abstemius, Laurentius, Fabulae, Venice: J. Tacuinus, [1499] ISTC ia e2r: a letter by the translator a1r: title- page incl. verses a2r: dedicatory letter by the author f4v: the colophon 4/4/

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36 All texts listed Tituli provided Incipit and explicit Colophon transcription Secundo folio Subject 4/4/