Content of the HPB Database
The Heritage of the Printed Book Database now contains over six million records of books from the beginning of printing to the middle of the 19th century. Searches are across the files provided by the 22 institutions listed below. Every year further files are added, while others are updated. Most files consist of high-level bibliographical records, created by book-in-hand cataloguing. Some of the files are created in retroconversion projects, and gradually replaced by sections with improved records.
L'Agence bibliographique de l'enseignement supérieur (ABES)
- c. 551,900 records contributed by c. 543 French academic libraries
Aikaterini Laskaridis Foundation
- c. 2,000 records
Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, München
- c. 347,600 records of their holdings
- c. 101,600 records from Das Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachraum erschienenen Drucke des 16. Jahrhunderts
Biblioteca Nacional de España, Madrid
- c. 197,250 records of their holdings
Biblioteca Histórica de la Universidad Complutense de Madrid
- c.25,700 records of their holdings
Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon
- c. 13,000 records from pre-1800
Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris
- c. 940,000 records, for the period 1455-1830
- c. 35,000 records
- c. 30,700 records, Incunable Short-Title Catalogue
- c. 24,700 records, Books printed in the German-speaking countries and of German books printed in other countries (1601-1700) now in the BL / [comp. David Paisey]
- c. 25,700 records (volume 2, foreign imprints), Books printed on the Continent of Europe before 1701 in libraries of the Anglican Cathedrals of England and Wales / [Ed. David Shaw]
- A project of four Polish libraries to create a catalogue of microfilmed old prints (XVI-XVIII cent.)
ETH Library, (Library of the Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule), Zurich
- c. 45,600 records, e-rara
- c. 20,300 records
- c. 110,000 records
- over 13,000 records
Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo Unico (ICCU), Rome
- c. 982,000 records contributed by c. 175 Italian libraries, SBN Antiquarian
- c. 66,400 records, EDIT 16
Jagiellonian University Library
- c. 15,400 records of their holdings
Kongelige Biblioteket, Copenhagen
- c. 75,000 of their holdings
Koninklijke Bibliotheek, The Hague
- c. 131,200 records, 1540-1800, Short-Title Catalogue, Netherlands
- c 137,600 records, Early Printed Editions
Koninklijke Bibliotheek van België – Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Brussels
- c. 93,000 records
Kungliga Biblioteket, Stockholm
- c. 50,000 records, Swedish National Bibliography, 18th century (SB17)
- c. 6,000 records, Swedish National Bibliography, 17th century (SB16)
Leighton Library, United Kingdom
- c. 3,520 of their holdings
Lambeth Palace Library, London
- c. 60,000 records
- c. 4,000 records from Catalogue of the Law Society's Mendham Collection, lent to the University of Kent at Canterbury and housed in Canterbury Cathedral Library. Completed and edited by Sheila Hingley and David Shaw from the catalogue of Helen Carron and others, published by The Law Society, London, 1994.
- c. 11,000 records, Law
National Library of Austria, Vienna
- c. 260,000 records of their holdings
National Library of the Czech Republic, Prague
- c. 20,500 records of their holdings
National Library of Finland, Helsinki
- c. 19,400 records of their holdings (c. 4,950 MARC21 records for pre-1700 material, and c. 14,450 records for publication years 1700-1827)
National Library of Lithuania, Vilnius
- c. 2,000 records covering 18th-century Polish books issued in Lithuania, Hebrew books issued in Lithuania between 1799 and 1830, and Lithuanian books from the period 1547 to 1830
National Library of Norway, Oslo
- c. 19,400 records of their holdings
National Library of Poland, Warsaw
- c. 1,345 records of their holdings
National Library of Russia, St Petersburg
- c. 28,500 records of their holdings
National Library of Scotland, Edinburgh
- c. 24,100 records, 1500-1830, Catalogue of collections
National Library of Wales, Aberystwyth
- c. 13,250 records of their holdings
National Széchényi Library, Budapest
- c. 11,000 records derived from the Catalogus librorum sedecimo saeculo impressorum, qui in Bibliotheca Nationali Hungariae Széchényiana asservantur. Editiones non Hungarice et extra Hungariam impressae, E. Soltész, C. Velenczei and A.W. Salgó (comp.) (Budapest – Szeged: Országos Széchényi Könyvtár / Scriptum Kft., 1990)
National and University Library, Ljubljana
- c. 18,800 records of their holdings
National and University Library, Zagreb
- c. 8,200 records of their holdings
- c. 112,000 records of their holdings
Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen
- c. 1,004,650 records from the Niedersächsische Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek, Göttingen, the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, and a number of German Cluster libraries
- c. 76,000 records from Oxford libraries, including the Bodleian, Taylorian, Ashmolean, as well as College and Departmental libraries
- c. 13,500 records from various libraries in the Regione Toscana
Slovak National Library, Martin
- c. 300 records of their holdings
Szeged University Library, Hungary
- c. 9,000 records of their holdings
Academic Library of Tallinn University
- c. 9,700 records of their holdings
- c. 20,904 records of their holdings
Senate House Library and Heythrop College Library, University of London
- c. 57,700 records of their holdings
The Vatican Library, Vatican City
- c. 5,600 records of their holdings
- c. 102,700 records of their holdings
- c. 26,000 records of their holdings
- c. 10,200 records of their holdings
Wellcome Library for the History and Understanding of Medicine, London
- c. 52,000 records of their holdings
- c. 5,400 records of their holdings
- c. 5,700 records of their holdings
- c. 270,700 of their holdings
- c. 105,000 of their holdings
Projected file loads
CERL is continually preparing new files for addition to the HPB database and would welcome suggestions of suitable collections to widen its scope and coverage (please contact the CERL Executive Manager: Marian.Lefferts@cerl.org.
For more information on CERL’s file loading procedures click here.
