Promoting Europe's cultural heritage in manuscript and print
CERL seeks to share resources and expertise between research libraries with a view to improving access to, as well as exploitation and preservation of the European printed heritage in the hand-press period (up to c. 1830). The organisation was formed in 1992 on the initiative of research libraries in many European countries and legally came into being in June 1994. Welcome to our site.
HPB Database The Heritage of the Printed Book in Europe, c. 1450 - c. 1830. A database of records from major European
and North American research libraries.
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CERL Thesaurus
Multi-lingual information about names of persons and places found in catalogues of books of the hand-press period.
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CERL Portal
Cross-searching of catalogues of European manuscript materials, with the option to search selected early-printed books databases.
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Publications
Includes the series of CERL Papers which record the contributions given at CERL‘s Annual Seminars.
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Seminars and Workshops
The Consortium holds annual international seminars and regular regional and national workshops.
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Provenance Information
Web pages about publications and web sites on provenance. The CERL Thesaurus links personal names to web-based catalogues containing books owned by them.
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This site is archived as part of the initiative of the UK Web Archiving Consortium
CERL Newsletter
The latest is issue of the CERL Newsletter is now available.
Publication of CERL Papers IX
CERL Papers IX - Linking the worlds of script and print: catalogues of European manuscripts and early printed books is now available. The papers were presented at two CERL Seminars held in 2009 at the Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, and the Academic Library of Tallinn University.
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4th Conference of LIBER Manuscript Librarians Group
Meeting with manuscripts, today and tomorrow
26-28 May 2010, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Rome
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