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The CERL Internship and Placement Grant 2016/17 allowed us to work at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek from 1 May to 31 May 2017, as Marieke van Delft, Curator of the Early Printed Books Department, decided to start a project for the cataloguing of incunables in the database Material Evidence of Incunabula. | The CERL Internship and Placement Grant 2016/17 allowed us to work at the Koninklijke Bibliotheek from 1 May to 31 May 2017, as Marieke van Delft, Curator of the Early Printed Books Department, decided to start a project for the cataloguing of incunables in the database Material Evidence of Incunabula. | ||
- | The work, which involved (and involves) Dr van Delft, the three of us and three Dutch university interns, did not start from scratch: former Curator Gerard van Thienen already made many researches on the incunabula kept by the KB, focusing above all on watermarks (which for Dutch books are all inserted in WILC (www.kb.nl/ | + | The work, which involved (and involves) Dr van Delft, the three of us and three Dutch university interns, did not start from scratch: former Curator Gerard van Thienen already made many researches on the incunabula kept by the KB, focusing above all on watermarks (which for Dutch books are all inserted in [[www.kb.nl/ |
Van Thienen’s researches merged in file cards, where the main copy features related to different provenances (inscriptions, | Van Thienen’s researches merged in file cards, where the main copy features related to different provenances (inscriptions, | ||
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Thus, except for a few books described in the first days, proper cataloguing on MEI started only in the second week at the KB. During our internship the three of us updated some 120 incunabula (Ruben Celani and Maria O’Shea) and 110 former owners (Judit Kolumban). The more we became acquainted with the database, the more incunabula we could proceed on in a day. | Thus, except for a few books described in the first days, proper cataloguing on MEI started only in the second week at the KB. During our internship the three of us updated some 120 incunabula (Ruben Celani and Maria O’Shea) and 110 former owners (Judit Kolumban). The more we became acquainted with the database, the more incunabula we could proceed on in a day. | ||
- | Even though most of the job has still to be done, the main features of the collection are already emerging, such as the importance of former owners as Jacob Visser (http:// | + | Even though most of the job has still to be done, the main features of the collection are already emerging, such as the importance of former owners as [[http:// |
About the organisation of this internship the following. Besides the three of us, two interns from Dutch universities worked for MEI, so we had a pleasant group of people with various expertise that could help each other. Dr van Delft guided is with the work on the incunabula, Ed van der Vlist, Curator of Medieval Manuscripts helped us with paleographical questions and the people from the stacks and the loan desk were very helpful bringing and lending the incunabula. Most of the time we worked at the Reading Room of the Department of Special Collections; | About the organisation of this internship the following. Besides the three of us, two interns from Dutch universities worked for MEI, so we had a pleasant group of people with various expertise that could help each other. Dr van Delft guided is with the work on the incunabula, Ed van der Vlist, Curator of Medieval Manuscripts helped us with paleographical questions and the people from the stacks and the loan desk were very helpful bringing and lending the incunabula. Most of the time we worked at the Reading Room of the Department of Special Collections; |
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