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
Can You Help? for provenance queries. Bibliography of provenance sources. Records for book owners in the CERL Thesaurus.
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This site is archived as part of the initiative of the UK Web Archiving Consortium
CERL Newsletter - June 2010
CERL′s June Newsletter is now available for downloading from http://www.cerl.org/web/en/publications/newsletter.
Virtual visits to lost libraries: reconstruction of and access to dispersed collections
In 2010, the CERL annual seminar is jointly organised with the LIBER Steering Committee for Heritage Collections and Preservation, and will take place on Friday 5 November 2010 at the Harsdorff Hall, Tøjhusgade 1, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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