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- | ====== Index Possessorum Incunabulorum ====== | + | ====== |
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+ | While CERL is working towards the full integration of IPI data into the CERL Thesaurus, this full-text search has been made available. | ||
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+ | ===== Contents: ===== | ||
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+ | IPI contains some 32,000 entries of personal names, institutional names, monograms, and arms pertaining to the ownership of incunabula. They were extracted by Paul Needham from some 200 published catalogues of incunabula with provenance information, | ||
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+ | We are very grateful to Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian, Scheide Library, Princeton University Library, for letting CERL make available to the public his extraordinary tool for provenance research. | ||
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+ | ===== Structure of the Entries: ===== | ||
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+ | Entries contain dates, biographical information, | ||
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+ | ===== How to search: ===== | ||
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+ | * Personal names: [surname], [name]; example: "Zell, Wolfgangus" | ||
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+ | * Monograms: [letter][space] [letter]; example: "A L" | ||
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+ | * Institutional names: just the name of the place where the institution is, then scroll down the entry which offers all known institutions within that place; example: " | ||
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+ | * Right truncation is available by adding a " | ||
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