MEI Training and Dissemination

• Salamanca UB (2016)
• Vienna ONB, Oxford Bodleian, Antwerp (2015)
• Edinburgh NL, Paris BnF, Oslo NL (2014)
• Padua UB, Vatican Library, Warsaw UB (2013)
• Uppsala UB, Montpellier ABES, London BL (2012)
• Oxford Merton College, London BL, The Hague KB, Vatican Library (2011)
• Berlin SB, The Hague KB, Prague NL, Copenhagen KB (2010)

2017

• 3-5 July 2017: Oxford, Lincoln College, History of Libraries Summer School: Three days full immersion with the 15cBOOKTRADE’s digital tools (15cBOOKTRADE team)

2016

• 6-9 December 2016: Vilnius (Lithuania), University Library, presentation and training to Lithuanian libraries (Geri Della Rocca de Candal)
• 13-15 July 2016: Oxford, Lincoln College, History of Libraries Summer School: The Application of the Digital Humanities to the Transmission, Preservation. and Dispersal of the European Written Heritage between the 15th and the 16th Centuries (15cBOOKTRADE team)
• 5 April 2016: Milan, Universita’ Cattolica del Sacro Cuore, ‘Nuove tecnologie per lo studio degli incunaboli: i databases MEI e TEXT-inc (15cBOOKTRADE Team)
• 14 March 2016, Salamanca University, MEI Workshop (G. Della Rocca de Candal)
• 28 January 2016: New York, Columbia University, Butler Library, MEI training day and CERL presentation for American Libraries (C. Dondi)
• 27, 29 January, 2, 4 & 13 February 2016, Venice, Liceo Classico Marco Polo; San Donà di Piave, Liceo Classico Eugenio Montale; Portogruaro, Liceo Classico XXV Aprile, as part of the outreach programme of Greek Studies in 15th Century Europe, a Marie Curie individual project (2015-17) held by Paola Tomè and based at the Medieval and Modern Languages Faculty, University of Oxford. Sabrina Minuzzi: Lo studio dei primi testi a stampa attraverso il 15cBOOKTRADE e alcune basi dati on line: Tucidide, Demostene e gli Erotemata di Chrysoloras tra XV e XVI secolo. See Introduzione [slides] Interventi [slides]; Matilde Malaspina: Strumenti digitali per lo studio dei primi testi a stampa: i casi di Museo ed Esopo attraverso il 15cBOOKTRADE Project. See Interventi [slides]

2015

• 18 November 2015, Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, CERL - MEI - 15cBOOKTRADE Preesentation (C. Dondi)
• 26 October 2015, Antwerp University Library, MEI Training Day for Flemish Libraries (C. Dondi and Alessandra Panzanelli - 15cBOOKTRADE)
• 13 October 2015, Eton College, Aldine incunabula: mapping the distribution, use, and collecting of the earliest production of Aldus Manutius (C. Dondi and Geri Della Rocca De Candal)
• 21 July 2015, Oxford, DHOxSS [Digital Humanities at Oxford Summer School] – Tracking the distribution, use, and collecting of books in the 15th century and to the present: the Material Evidence in Incunabula database, within the Workshop: Digital Approaches in Medieval and Renaissance Studies, coordinated by Judith Siefring, Bodleian Digital Library Systems (Geri Della Rocca De Candal – Matilde Malaspina – Alessandra Panzanelli)
• 12 June 2105, Oxford, Merton College, History of the Book Group meeting for Trinity Term 2015: 'A selection of incunabula from the collection of Merton College' (Geri della Rocca de Candal)
• 21 May 2015, Oxford, Visiting Scholars' Centre, Weston Library, Bodleian Fellows Seminar, The methods of data collection and documentation that the 15th Century Booktrade project is using to build historical evidence based on library holdings of incunables (Geri Della Rocca De Candal)
• 6 May 2015, Roma, Università La Sapienza, a lecture on the 15cBOOKTRADE for the course of Alberto Petrucciani, Prof. of Archivistica, Bibliografia e Biblioteconomia (C. Dondi)
• 29 April 2015, Oxford, Weston Library, The Trade in Printed Books: in Ingenious Innovation that Changed the Western World, part of a lecture series which accompanies the Exhibition 'Marks of Genius, Masterpieces from the Collections of the Bodleian Libraries' (C. Dondi)
• 28 April 2015, Tours, Centre d’Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Réunion CIA, Presentation of MEI (C. Dondi)
• 19 April 2015, Venice, San Francesco della Vigna, I possessori degli incunaboli aldini conservati alla British Library (Alessandra Panzanelli, 15cBOOKTRADE) http://www.novacharta.it/le-cattedre-ambulanti/
• 11 March 2015, London, The Warburg Institute, A coordinated approach to recording and searching provenance records and images: moving forwards. A Conference organised by the Rare Books and Manuscripts Section of IFLA, 15cBOOKTRADE, CILIP, and CERL (organisers: C. Dondi and Raphaële Mouren)
• 21-22 January 2015 New York City, Columbia University, Butler Library, MEI training day and CERL presentation for American Libraries (C. Dondi and John Lancaster).

2014

• 24-27 November 2014, Rome, Conferenza episcopale italiana, Segnalare le provenienze degli incunaboli attraverso MEI – Material Evidence in Incunabula. A training course for librarians of Italian Ecclesiastical libraries, part of the network Polo Biblioteche Ecclesiatiche (Mons. Stefano Russo, Francesca D’Agnelli, Paul Gabriele Weston, Paola Sverzellati, Martina Pezzoni, C. Dondi, Alessandra Panzanelli, Sabrina Minuzzi, Adalbert Roth and BAVIC Team)http://www.polopbe.it/pls/cci_new_v3/V3_S2EW_CONSULTAZIONE.mostra_pagina?id_pagina=60260&rifi=guest&rifp=guest
• 14, 21, 28 November- 5 December 2014, Milan, Regione Lombardia, Gli incunaboli Lombardi e il progetto internazionale Material Evidence in incunabula (MEI). Corso di aggiornamento per bibliotecari (org. CRELEB and Regione Lombardia) http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/creleb_Corso_incunabolistica_regione_Lombadia.pdf
• 3-6 November 2014, Naples, Biblioteca e Complesso dei Padri Vincenziani, Conoscere, catalogare e descrivere il patrimonio librario del XV secolo - 2a edizione, Incunabula Autumn School 2014 (on MEI, Edoardo Barbieri and Natale Vacalebre - CRELEB)
• 17 September 2014, SHARP Conference 2014 Antwerp: CERL Workshop on Historical Provenance Research: Material Evidence, Documentary Evidence, and Digital Humanities (C. Dondi and others) Full programme on http://www.sharp2014.be/cerl-workshop.html
• 24-26 June 2014, Venice, Biblioteca dello Studium Generale Marcianum, in associazione con Associazione dei Bibliotecari Ecclesiastici Italiani (ABEI), Il Libro Religioso Antico. Esperienze e progetti di conoscenza e valorizzazione: Progetti di valorizzazione del libro antico religioso (on MEI, Natale Vacalebre - CRELEB)http://www.abei.it/index.php?
• 18 March 2014, Edinburgh National Library: CERL Workshop for Scottish Librarians
• 6-7 March 2014, Perugia, Biblioteca di Agraria “Mario Marte”, Universita' degli Studi di Perugia: Valorizzare le collezioni di edizioni del XV secolo. La Banca dati MEI: introduzione all’uso, esperienze a confronto e pratica, con una lezione sulla legatura ed un’appendice sulla conservazione. A collaboration of Associazione Italiana Biblioteche (AIB) Sezione Umbria, il Gruppo di studio nazionale AIB Libro Antico, il gruppo di lavoro “Libri Rari e Collezioni Speciali” dell’Università degli Studi di Perugia and Società Bibliografica Toscana (A. Panzanelli, E. Di Renzo, I. Zanella, C. Razzolini, N. Vacalebre, P. Arrigoni, C. Martone, C. Puglisi, R. Leda, F. Sabba, S. Boldrini, R. De Martino, M. Fiore, B. Spaterna, M. Fornaciari da Passano, L. Ruga) http://www.aib.it/struttura/sezioni/umbria/2014/40608-valorizzare-le-collezioni/
• 24 February 2014, 10.15-13.00, London, Victoria & Albert Museum Print Room: Workshop on printing in Europe 1450-1500, part of the Option 'Technological Cultures' (convenor Simona Valeriani), for the Master course in History of design (Royal College of Art and V&A), specialism in Renaissance and Early Modern.

2013

• 26 November 2013, London, CERL Office: MEI Training Day (C. Dondi)
• 12 November 2013, London, The Warburg Institute: 'Techniques of scholarship: Incunabula' for the Master in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300-1650 (C. Dondi)
• Michaelmas Term 2013, University of Oxford: 'Methods of Scholarship: Palaeography, Textual Criticism, and History of the Early Printed Book', lectures for post-graduate students (C. Dondi and D. Mairhofer)
• 28 October 2013 Venice, Università Ca’ Foscari: Le nuove frontiere dei mestieri del libro. Metodologie, orientamenti, opportunità; part of the Corso di laurea magistrale “Storia e gestione del patrimonio archivistico e bibliografico”. Incunabolistica digitale (Dorit Raines (Università Ca’ Foscari Venice)
• 9-12 October 2013, Bologna, Incunabula Autumn School 2013: Conoscere, catalogare e descrivere il patrimonio librario del XV secolo. Una banca dati per la descrizione degli incunaboli: l'esperienza di MEI (A. Ledda, Università Cattolica Milan)http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/creleb_2035.html
• 3 October 2013, Harvard University, Houghton Library, Workshop: Prices and Trade in Printed Books in the Fifteenth Century (C. Dondi) http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/houghton/2013/10/11/contributing-data-for-greater-understanding/#more-6718
• The round table meeting followed the International Conference Incunabula. Printing, Trading, Collecting, Cataloguing, which took place in Milan, 10-12 September 2013, to celebrate the conclusion of the research project PRIN2009 “Incunaboli lombardi: storia e catalogazione”, which included the cataloguing of thousands of incunabula in MEI http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/creleb_2031.html.
• 13 September 2013, Milan, Università Cattolica: A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON DATABASES FOR THE STUDY OF INCUNABULA, to discuss strategy with relation to incunable databases and projects: goals, plans, integrations, next steps, synergies, sharing of tasks, etc. to make sure that we achieve and support the best possible way to produce research using incunabula. Organised by CERL (C. Dondi) and CRELEB, Milan. With the presence of: Pasqualino Avigliano (IGI); Edoardo Barbieri (CRELEB); Falk Eisermann (GW); John Goldfinch (ISTC); Alexander Jahnke (DCG-MEI); Alessandro Ledda (CRELEB); Paul Needham (Princeton University, Scheide Library); Ezio Ornato (Paris, LAMOP); Greg Prickman (Atlas of Early Printing Iowa University); Marieke van Delft (The Hague Royal Library); Marina Venier (Rome, BNC).
• 5 July 2013, London, The British Library: Books, Catalogues and Databases: Exploring Renaissance Vernacular Aristotelianism. It included a round table discussion with C. Dondi, Paul Gehl (Newberry Library, Chicago), Laura Nuvoloni (Univ. of Cambridge - Incunabula Project), Stephen Parkin (British Library), moderated by David Lines (University of Warwick).
• 10 May 2013, Genoa, Regione Liguria: Giornata di studio su La ricostruzione storica dei fondi librari attraverso lo studio delle provenienze. Speakers include: Anna Giulia Cavagna (Università di Genova), Giuseppe Pavoletti (Regione Liguria), Chiara Puccinelli (Regione Liguria), Danilo Bonanno (Biblioteca Civica Berio), Donatella Benazzi (Biblioteca Universitaria di Genova), Rossella Trevisan, Francesca Nepori (Biblioteca Provinciale dei Cappuccini di Genova), and Federica Viazzi on MEI: Fuori dalla tipografia. Material Evidence of Incunabula: dalle biblioteche genovesi alla British Library di Londra. http://deposito.regione.liguria.it/get/IuaeTKJuDNmQcAqh0k4HvqnkjmkS
• 19 March 2013, Padua, Biblioteca dell'Orto Botanico: MEI Assemblea Annuale. With the presence of: C. Dondi, creator of MEI; Alex Jahnke (DCG Göttingen), developer of MEI; Lorena Dal Poz (Sovrintendenza Beni Librari Regione Veneto); Ornella Foglieni (Sovrintendenza Beni Librari Regione Lombardia); Alessandro Ledda (CRELEB, Università Cattolica di Milano), cataloguer in MEI; Alessandra Panzanelli (vice-coordinatore AIB Gruppo di studio sul Libro Antico); Marina Venier (Roma, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale) advisor to MEI.

2012

• 14 December 2012, Milan, Univ. Cattolica: MEI 2.0 Gli incunaboli delle Biblioteche Lombarde e il progetto Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI): Bilanci e prospettive, org. Giancarlo Petrella; speakers: Edoardo Barbieri, Giorgio Montecchi, Ornella Foglieni, Neil Harris, Chiara Razzolini, Alessandra Panzanelli, Laura Lalli, Lavinia Prosdocimi, Natale Vacalebre, Carla Giunchedi, Aldo Coletto, Alessandro Ledda (CRELEB)
• 13 and 20 November 2012, London, The Warburg Institute: 'Techniques of scholarship' for the Master in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300-1650 (C. Dondi)
• 8 November 2012, Perugia University Library: training on MEI (org. Alessandra Panzanelli)
• Michaelmas Term 2012, University of Oxford: 'Methods of Scholarship: Palaeography, Textual Criticism, and History of the Early Printed Book', lectures for post-graduate students (C. Dondi and D. Mairhofer)
• 19 October 2012, Florence, Biblioteca Provinciale dei Frati Minori di Firenze: Strumenti per la ricerca dei dati di provenienza nelle banche dati del CERL (C. Dondi)
• 20 June 2012, Vienna, National Library of Austria: Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research (C. Dondi)
• 22-24 March 2012, Oxford conference: How the Secularization of Religious Houses Transformed the Libraries of Europe, 16th–19th Centuries (org. C. Dondi, Richard Sharpe, Oxford, and Dorit Raines, Venice); funded by the British Academy, the Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, the Fell Fund, and the Centre for the Study of the Book, Bodleian Library, Oxford. With specific emphasis on the reconstruction of now dispersed monastic collections (C. Dondi)
• 23 February 2012, Milan, Univ. Cattolica: Gli incunaboli delle Biblioteche Lombarde e il progetto Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI): Istruzioni per l’uso (CRELEB)

2011

• 1 December 2011, London, British Library, Rare Books Forum: Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research (C. Dondi)
• 24 November 2011, Glasgow, University Library: Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research (C. Dondi)
• 3 March 2011, Oxford, Merton College: Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research (C. Dondi)