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resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2012/11/09 14:58] – [Print Runs] baldwinresources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical_data [2014/09/23 10:23] – [Standards for storing and exchanging bibliographic records] lefferts
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 ====== Bibliographical data ====== ====== Bibliographical data ======
  
- +[[:resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical data#Catalogues| - Catalogues]]\\ 
- +[[:resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical data#Full text| - Full text]]\\ 
- +[[:resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical data#Microforms| - Microforms]]\\ 
- +[[:resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical data#Researching Print Runs| - Researching Print Runs]]\\ 
- +[[:resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical data#Printers' Devices| - Printers' Devices]]\\ 
- +[[:resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical data#Provenance Information| - Provenance Information]]\\ 
- +[[:resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical data#Standards for storing and exchanging bibliographic records| - Standards for storing and exchanging bibliographic records]]\\ 
- +[[:resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical data#Watermarks| - Watermarks]]\\ 
- +[[:resources:links_to_other_resources:bibliographical data#Various| - Various]]\\
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 ===== Catalogues ===== ===== Catalogues =====
  
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 ===== Researching Print Runs ===== ===== Researching Print Runs =====
  
-Many historians seeking to measure the impact of the ‘printing revolution’ in fifteenthcentury+Many historians seeking to measure the impact of the ‘printing revolution’ in fifteenth century
 Europe have taken a quantitiative approach, multiplying the total of all editions Europe have taken a quantitiative approach, multiplying the total of all editions
 by the number of copies in a typical edition. However, whereas the Incunable Short Title by the number of copies in a typical edition. However, whereas the Incunable Short Title
-Catalog (ISTC) lists more than 28,000 fifteenth-century editions that are represented by +Catalogue (ISTC) lists more than 28,000 fifteenth-century editions that are represented by 
-surviving specimens, the number of lost editions will always remain indeterminate.1 The+surviving specimens, the number of lost editions will always remain indeterminate. The
 second factor in the equation – the typical or ‘average’ fifteenth-century print run – is just second factor in the equation – the typical or ‘average’ fifteenth-century print run – is just
 as indeterminate as the first, if not more so. Inevitably, the ‘editions × copies’ formula as indeterminate as the first, if not more so. Inevitably, the ‘editions × copies’ formula
 has produced estimates of fifteenth-century press production that range anywhere from has produced estimates of fifteenth-century press production that range anywhere from
-eight million to more than twenty million pieces of reading material.2 Such irreconcilable+eight million to more than twenty million pieces of reading material. Such irreconcilable
 results (in which the margin for error may be larger than the answer itself) only serve to results (in which the margin for error may be larger than the answer itself) only serve to
 demonstrate that any effort to arrive at a meaningful quantification of fifteenth-century demonstrate that any effort to arrive at a meaningful quantification of fifteenth-century
 press production will require a much more systematic analysis of the available data on press production will require a much more systematic analysis of the available data on
-print runs. The present study, a census of print runs for fifteenth-century books, takes a +print runs. 
-step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data?+
  
-Download Eric White's [[full introduction]] and [[database]] of 15th century print runs of incunabula.+Eric White has conducted a study; a census of print runs for fifteenth-century books, which takes a step in that direction by asking a much more basic question: what is the available data?
  
 +Download Eric White's {{:resources:links_to_other_resources:printruns_intro.pdf|full introduction}} and {{:resources:links_to_other_resources:15cprintruns.pdf|database}} of 15th century print runs of incunabula.
  
  
  
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 ===== Printers’ Devices ===== ===== Printers’ Devices =====
  
-CERL programme of digitisation of published repertories of printers’ devices 
 CERL has undertaken a programme of digitisation of repertories of printers’ and publishers’ devices, to create links to the individual images from the appropriate entries in the ‘‘Imprint Names’’ section of the CERL Thesaurus. To date the CERL Thesaurus contains links to CERL has undertaken a programme of digitisation of repertories of printers’ and publishers’ devices, to create links to the individual images from the appropriate entries in the ‘‘Imprint Names’’ section of the CERL Thesaurus. To date the CERL Thesaurus contains links to
    *  **English printers' devices up to 1640** from R.B. McKerrow, //Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices//     *  **English printers' devices up to 1640** from R.B. McKerrow, //Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices// 
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    *  **15th and 16th-cnntury Parisian printers' devices** from P. Renouard, //Les marques typographiques parisiennes des 15e et 16e siècles// (Paris, 1926)    *  **15th and 16th-cnntury Parisian printers' devices** from P. Renouard, //Les marques typographiques parisiennes des 15e et 16e siècles// (Paris, 1926)
    * **Spanish printers' devices up to 1850** from F. Vindel. //Escudas y marcas de impressores y libreros en Espana durante los siglos XV a XIX (1485-1850)//.    * **Spanish printers' devices up to 1850** from F. Vindel. //Escudas y marcas de impressores y libreros en Espana durante los siglos XV a XIX (1485-1850)//.
 +   * Printers' devices brought together at the University Library of Barcelona: covering the 16th to the 18th century, geographically from all around Europe but mostly from Spain, France, Italy, Portugal, Germany and Low Countries, reflecting the collection’s own personality. The records in the CERL Thesaurus are http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cni00045319 to http://thesaurus.cerl.org/record/cni00047557.
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 Digitisation of further reference works is planned, including Paul Heitz, //Elsässische Büchermarken//. Digitisation of further reference works is planned, including Paul Heitz, //Elsässische Büchermarken//.
  
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   * [[http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/device.htm|Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida - Rare Book section]]   * [[http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/rarebook/devices/device.htm|Department of Special and Area Studies Collections at the University of Florida - Rare Book section]]
   * [[http://www.edit16.iccu.sbn.it|EDIT 16: Censimento delle edizioni italiane del XVI secolo]]   * [[http://www.edit16.iccu.sbn.it|EDIT 16: Censimento delle edizioni italiane del XVI secolo]]
-  * [[http://eclipsi.bib.ub.es/imp/|Marques d’impressor at the Universitat de Barcelona - Fons de Reserva]] (Catalan version) +  * [[http://www.bib.ub.edu/fileadmin/impressors/home_eng.htm|Marques d’impressor at the Universitat de Barcelona - Fons de Reserva]]
-     * [[http://eclipsi.bib.ub.es/imp/home_spa.htm|(Spanish version)]]  +
-     * [[http://eclipsi.bib.ub.es/imp/home_eng.htm|(English version)]]+
   * [[http://193.206.215.10/marte/|MAR.T.E. - Marche Tipografiche Editoriali]]: Italian 17th-century printers’ and publishers’ devices -  [[http://193.206.215.10/marte/introen.html|(English version)]]   * [[http://193.206.215.10/marte/|MAR.T.E. - Marche Tipografiche Editoriali]]: Italian 17th-century printers’ and publishers’ devices -  [[http://193.206.215.10/marte/introen.html|(English version)]]
   * Ronald B. McKerrow. [[http://www2.kb.dk/elib/bhs/mckerrow//intro.htm|Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640]]   * Ronald B. McKerrow. [[http://www2.kb.dk/elib/bhs/mckerrow//intro.htm|Printers’ & Publishers’ Devices in England & Scotland 1485-1640]]
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 +===== Digitising Early Printed Books and Manuscripts =====
  
 +IFLA Guidelines for Planning the Digitization of Rare Book and Manuscript Collections\\
 +- link to [[http://www.ifla.org/publications/node/8968?og=59|website]], and link to free [[http://www.ifla.org/files/assets/rare-books-and-manuscripts/rbms-guidelines/ifla_guidelines_for_planning_the_digitization_of_rare_book_and_manuscripts_collections_september_2014.pdf|PDF]] 
  
  
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