MEI Training and Dissemination

• Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research, Oxford, Merton College, 3 Mar. 2011 (C. Dondi)
• Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research, Glasgow, University Library, 24 Nov. 2011 (C. Dondi)
• Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research, London, British Library, Rare Books Forum, 1 Dec. 2011 (C. Dondi)
• Gli incunaboli delle Biblioteche Lombarde e il progetto Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI): Istruzioni per l’uso, CRELEB, at Univ. Cattolica of Milan, on 23 Feb. 2012 (CRELEB)
• How the Secularization of Religious Houses Transformed the Libraries of Europe, 16th–19th Centuries, Oxford 22-24 March 2012 (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)
• Tools for Provenance and Bibliographical Research, Vienna, National Library of Austria, 20 June 2012 (C. Dondi)
• Strumenti per la ricerca dei dati di provenienza nelle banche dati del CERL, Florence, Biblioteca Provinciale dei Frati Minori di Firenze, 19 Oct. 2012 (C. Dondi)
• 'Methods of Scholarship: Palaeography, Textual Criticism, and History of the Early Printed Book', lectures for post-graduate students, University of Oxford, Michaelmas Term 2012 (C. Dondi and D. Mairhofer)
• 8 November 2012, Perugia, University Library training on MEI (org. Alessandra Panzanelli)
• 13 and 20 November 2012, 'Techniques of scholarship' for the Master in Cultural and Intellectual History 1300-1650, The Warburg Institute, London (C. Dondi)
• MEI 2.0 Gli incunaboli delle Biblioteche Lombarde e il progetto Material Evidence in Incunabula (MEI): Bilanci e prospettive, Milan, Univ. Cattolica, 14 Dec. 2012, 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)
• MEI Assemblea Annuale, Padua, Biblioteca dell'Orto Botanico, 19 Mar. 2013; 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.
• Regione Liguria: Giornata di studio su La ricostruzione storica dei fondi librari attraverso lo studio delle provenienze, Genoa, 10 May 2013. 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
• Books, Catalogues and Databases: Exploring Renaissance Vernacular Aristotelianism, London, The British Library, 5 July 2013; 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).
• A ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION ON DATABASES FOR THE STUDY OF INCUNABULA, Milan, 13 September 2013, 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).

The round table meeting will follow the International Conference Incunabula. Printing, Trading, Collecting, Cataloguing, which will take place in Milan, 10-12 September 2013 http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/creleb_2031.html.

• A. Ledda, Una banca dati per la descrizione degli incunaboli: l'esperienza di MEI, in Conoscere, catalogare e descrivere il patrimonio librario del XV secolo - Incunabula Autumn School 2013, Bologna, 9-12 October 2013 http://centridiricerca.unicatt.it/creleb_2035.html