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-====== On-line provenance resources ======+====== Online provenance resources ======
  
  
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 ===== Geographical areas ===== ===== Geographical areas =====
  
-[[#Austria]], [[#Belgium]],  [[#Denmark]], [[#France]],  [[#Germany]],  [[#Italy]], [[#Mexico]], [[#Poland]], [[#Russia]],  [[#Scotland]],  [[#Spain]], [[#Switzerland]], [[#United Kingdom]], [[#United States]] +[[#Austria]], [[#Belgium]],  [[#Denmark]], [[#France]],  [[#Germany]],  [[#Italy]], [[#Mexico]], [[#Nederlands]], [[#Poland]], [[#Russia]],  [[#Scotland]],  [[#Spain]], [[#Switzerland]], [[#United Kingdom]], [[#United States]] 
  
 See also:  [[Incunables]] and [[newsletter_provenance|Extracts from the CERL Newsletter]] See also:  [[Incunables]] and [[newsletter_provenance|Extracts from the CERL Newsletter]]
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 ==== FRANCE ==== ==== FRANCE ====
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 +=== Bibliopat - Association des bibliothécaires patrimoniaux / French Association of heritage and specialized collections Librarians ===
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 +> Confronted to the development of individual provenance databases in France, a dozen of French libraries involved in Provenance description and research have formed an informal group in June 2013 to reflect and work on possible developments at the national level. The common goal being to avoid the duplication of efforts and the development of multiple individual tools, interoperability is at the heart of this project which is drawn in close collaboration with CERL’s Provenance working group.
 +> The group’s main remit is:
 +> * to stimulate the creation of provenance information on the French heritage collections kept throughout the country in the public libraries as well as in the university or specialized libraries.
 +> * to envision possible ways:
 +>    - first, of developing an interface in which to integrate the newly created information, and  
 +>    - second, of federating searching on this data along with the existing provenance data in individual provenance databases, library catalogues, authority files and large reservoirs such as the national catalogues in EAD (Calames, the manuscript catalogues in university libraries, BNF’s manuscript catalogue and CGM, Catalogue général des Bibliothèques publiques de France) all of them in EAD.
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 +> The group has created pages of resources as a first step, in order to help librarians who wish to start cataloging provenance: http://www.bibliopat.fr/provenances/provenances-des-collections-aide-a-la-description-et-au-signalement
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 === Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon === === Bibliothèque Municipale de Lyon ===
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 ==== GERMANY ==== ==== GERMANY ====
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 +=== Berlin, Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin ===
 +>   [[http://www.hist-einband.de/|Einbanddatenbank]], a database of stamps and rolls used on bookbindings.
  
 === Buxheim Charterhouse and its library === === Buxheim Charterhouse and its library ===
  
 >  [[http://www.cls.yale.edu/buxheim/index.html|A virtual recreation of a fifteenth-century library.]] The library once present at the Carthusian monastery of Buxheim, Germany, was one of the largest of its kind. The manuscripts now reside in over fifty libraries across Europe and North America, and some remain in private hands. Many remain unlocated or unidentified since their sale and dispersion at auction in 1883.\\ You may view the manuscript catalogs of c. 1450, 1693 and 1755. There is a page illustrating  [[http://www.cls.yale.edu/buxheim/1755/provenance.html|17th/18th century Buxheim provenance inscriptions]]. The site is the work of [[whobrey@yale.edu|Dr William Whobrey]] at Yale University. >  [[http://www.cls.yale.edu/buxheim/index.html|A virtual recreation of a fifteenth-century library.]] The library once present at the Carthusian monastery of Buxheim, Germany, was one of the largest of its kind. The manuscripts now reside in over fifty libraries across Europe and North America, and some remain in private hands. Many remain unlocated or unidentified since their sale and dispersion at auction in 1883.\\ You may view the manuscript catalogs of c. 1450, 1693 and 1755. There is a page illustrating  [[http://www.cls.yale.edu/buxheim/1755/provenance.html|17th/18th century Buxheim provenance inscriptions]]. The site is the work of [[whobrey@yale.edu|Dr William Whobrey]] at Yale University.
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 +===  Dresden, Sächsische Landesbibliothek – Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek ===
 +>   In two provenance projects (2009-2013), the SLUB collected 15,000 images. The first 4,000 (those also recorded in the [[http://www.dnb.de/EN/Standardisierung/GND/gnd_node.html|GND]]) have now been made available through the [[http://www.deutschefotothek.de/gallery/freitext/provenienzmerkmale|Deutsch Fotothek]].
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 +=== Freiburg, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität,Universitätsbibliothek ===
 +>   [[http://www.ub.uni-freiburg.de/go/exlibris/|Provenienzdatenbank]] - recording the monastic libraries now held at this institution. 
  
 === HeBIS-Arbeitsgruppe Historische Bestände === === HeBIS-Arbeitsgruppe Historische Bestände ===
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 > [[http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/exlibris]] About 600 bookplates from Bavarian monasteries can be searched alphabetically, with hyperlinks to the //Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte// which provides information on the history of each monastery. > [[http://www.bayerische-landesbibliothek-online.de/exlibris]] About 600 bookplates from Bavarian monasteries can be searched alphabetically, with hyperlinks to the //Haus der Bayerischen Geschichte// which provides information on the history of each monastery.
  
 +>   A list of institutions and persons who are recorded as [[http://www.bsb-muenchen.de/fileadmin/imageswww/pdf-dateien/abteilungen/Handschriften/Provenienzen_BSB-Ink.pdf|previous owners of incunabula]] now in the Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Munich has been published as PDF file. The list contains standardized name forms for institutions, which are also used in provenance information for items recorded in the BSB's OPAC. For persons, short biographical data are provided to facilitate identification; this information has also been published in the index volume of BSB-Ink: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek: Inkunabelkatalog (BSB-Ink). Bd. 7: Register der Beiträger, Provenienzen, Buchbinder. [Redaktion: Bettina Wagner u.a.]. Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2009. ISBN 978-3-89500-350-9
 +
 +>   Descriptions of the incunabula owned by a particular institution or person can be retrieved in the [[http://inkunabeln.digitale-sammlungen.de/sucheEin.html|BSB's online catalogue of incunabula]] by entering the name in the field "Provenienz". Please make sure to put names consisting of more than one word in inverted commas, e.g. "Abensberg, Karmelitenkloster" or "Abenperger, Hans".
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 +>   The provenances of the BSB's incunabula are also recorded in the [[http://www.cerl.org/resources/provenance/cerl_thesaurus|CERL Thesaurus]].
 + 
 === Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek  === === Regensburg, Staatliche Bibliothek  ===
 >    The [[http://www.staatliche-bibliothek-regensburg.de/|Staatliche Bibliothek   Regensburg]] has an [[http://www.staatliche-bibliothek-regensburg.de/vorbesitzer.htm|online list of former owners]] (personal and institutional) in its collections up to the year 1830 (with a few later collections). There are digitised images of booklates, binding stamps, etc. and an index of Regensburg institutions to which personal owners can be associated. >    The [[http://www.staatliche-bibliothek-regensburg.de/|Staatliche Bibliothek   Regensburg]] has an [[http://www.staatliche-bibliothek-regensburg.de/vorbesitzer.htm|online list of former owners]] (personal and institutional) in its collections up to the year 1830 (with a few later collections). There are digitised images of booklates, binding stamps, etc. and an index of Regensburg institutions to which personal owners can be associated.
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 +=== Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek ===
 +
 +> Work-in-progress, records former owners of items in the collection of the [[http://www.wlb-stuttgart.de/sammlungen/alte-und-wertvolle-drucke/hilfsmittel/provenienzen/|Württembergische Landesbibliothek]]
  
 === T-PRO – Thesaurus der Provenienzbegriffe === === T-PRO – Thesaurus der Provenienzbegriffe ===
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 ==== ITALY ==== ==== ITALY ====
 +=== Montevergine, Biblioteca Statale ===
 +>[[http://bibliotecastataledimontevergine.beniculturali.it/index.php?it/309/possessori]]
 +>**Provenance Database: Archivio dei possessori**
 +> Illustrated database of former ownership marks (ex-libris, stamps, manuscript annotations, bindings, etc.) from the rare books collection of the Library, spec. 16th-century - ongoing.
  
 +=== Naples, National Library ===
 +> [[http://www.bnnonline.it/index.php?it/330/archivio-possessori]]
 +> **Provenance Database: Archivio dei possessori**
 +> Illustrated database of former ownership marks (ex-libris, stamps, manuscript annotations, bindings, etc.) from the rare books collection of the Library - ongoing.
 + 
 === Regione Toscana === === Regione Toscana ===
  
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 >  **Coat of arms Database** >  **Coat of arms Database**
 > From the Ceramelli Papiani collection. > From the Ceramelli Papiani collection.
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 +=== Florence, Kunsthistorisches Institut, Max-Planck-Institut: Stemmario ===
 +> [[http://wappen.khi.fi.it/front-page-it?set_language=it]]
 +> **Coat of arms Database**
 +> Over 2,800 arms of Florentine families, churches, hospitals, and confraternities.
  
 === Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana === === Rome, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana ===
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 === Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale === === Rome, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale ===
  
->  {{en:resources:provenance:religious_houses_by_m_venier_v2.pdf|The Libraries of the suppressed Religious Houses, Rome, 1876}} (//updated February 2008//).+>  {{:resources:provenance:religious_houses_by_m_venier_v2.pdf|The Libraries of the suppressed Religious Houses, Rome, 1876}} (//updated February 2008//).
 >    Following the suppression of the religious houses in Rome (1873) as a consequence of the creation of the new Kingdom of Italy with Rome as its capital, the libraries of the suppressed religious houses were confiscated for the benefit of the newly created National Central Library (1876).\\ In her article ‘The computerised archive of owners in the older publications database of SBN: the experience of the National Central Library of Rome’, //[[:publications:cerl_papers:cerl_papers_v|CERL Papers V]]//, 2005, pp. 43-53 (see above), Marina Venier (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome) describes the process of confiscation and the attempts of the religious to avoid the loss of their books. The Appendix to her article is reproduced here, listing the 78 libraries confiscated, their size and religious affiliation, reference to surviving catalogues of the original collections, and reproduction of ownership stamps and labels from many of the collections.  >    Following the suppression of the religious houses in Rome (1873) as a consequence of the creation of the new Kingdom of Italy with Rome as its capital, the libraries of the suppressed religious houses were confiscated for the benefit of the newly created National Central Library (1876).\\ In her article ‘The computerised archive of owners in the older publications database of SBN: the experience of the National Central Library of Rome’, //[[:publications:cerl_papers:cerl_papers_v|CERL Papers V]]//, 2005, pp. 43-53 (see above), Marina Venier (Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, Rome) describes the process of confiscation and the attempts of the religious to avoid the loss of their books. The Appendix to her article is reproduced here, listing the 78 libraries confiscated, their size and religious affiliation, reference to surviving catalogues of the original collections, and reproduction of ownership stamps and labels from many of the collections. 
    
 +
 +=== Turin and Piedmont ===
 +>    **Coat of arms Database**     
 +>  [[http://www.blasonariosubalpino.it/]]
 +
 +
 +=== Venice, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana ===
 +>  [[http://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/la-biblioteca/cataloghi/archivio-possessori]]
 +>  **Provenance Database: Archivio dei possessori**
 +
 +> Illustrated database of former ownership marks (ex-libris, stamps, manuscript annotations, bindings, etc.) from the rare books and manuscripts collection of the Library - ongoing.
  
  
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 > [[http://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/27/25/7.Garcia.pdf|Download the PDF file]].  > [[http://ifc.dpz.es/recursos/publicaciones/27/25/7.Garcia.pdf|Download the PDF file]]. 
  
 +==== NETHERLANDS ==== 
 +=== Leiden, University Library === 
 +>    [[http://digitallibrary.leidenuniv.nl/V/?func=native-link&resource=LDN10306|Provenance information in the Bibliotheca Manuscripta ]]
  
  
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 ==== SCOTLAND ==== ==== SCOTLAND ====
  
-=== National Library of Scotland ===+===Advocates Library (Edinburgh, Scotland=== 
 +>[[http://www.nls.uk/collections/rare-books/collections/advocates]] An overview of their shelfmarks, stamps and inscriptions, dating from the 1680s to the 1920s.
  
 +=== National Library of Scotland ===
 >   **The Private lives of books**  >   **The Private lives of books** 
 >    Catalogue of an exhibition arranged in conjunction with CERL’s 2004 Annual Seminar //Books and their owners: Provenance information and the European cultural heritage// (published as [[:publications:cerl_papers:cerl_papers_v|CERL Papers V]].\\ [[http://www.nls.uk/media/22630/private-lives-handlist.pdf|  Download catalogue as PDF file]] >    Catalogue of an exhibition arranged in conjunction with CERL’s 2004 Annual Seminar //Books and their owners: Provenance information and the European cultural heritage// (published as [[:publications:cerl_papers:cerl_papers_v|CERL Papers V]].\\ [[http://www.nls.uk/media/22630/private-lives-handlist.pdf|  Download catalogue as PDF file]]
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   *  //[[http://encuadernacion.realbiblioteca.es/|Encuadernaciones de la Real Biblioteca]]// : a database of bookbindings with digitised images   *  //[[http://encuadernacion.realbiblioteca.es/|Encuadernaciones de la Real Biblioteca]]// : a database of bookbindings with digitised images
  
-  *  //[[http://encuadernacion.realbiblioteca.es/Exlibris1.html|Base de datos de Ex libris de la Real Biblioteca]]// : a database of armorial bindings, stamps, bookplates and inscriptions of former owners of items in its collections, with digitised images.\\ On the search page, the pull-down menu labelled 'Identificación' gives an alphabetical list of the persons indexed in the database, who are mainly members of the royal family, aristocrats or scholars. The data range from the 16th to the 19th centuries.+  *  //[[http://encuadernacion.realbiblioteca.es/index.php?p=searchexlibris|Base de datos de Ex libris de la Real Biblioteca]]// : a database of armorial bindings, stamps, bookplates and inscriptions of former owners of items in its collections, with digitised images.\\ On the search page, the pull-down menu labelled 'Identificación' gives an alphabetical list of the persons indexed in the database, who are mainly members of the royal family, aristocrats or scholars. The data range from the 16th to the 19th centuries.
  
 === Madrid, Universidad Complutense, Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla === === Madrid, Universidad Complutense, Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla ===
 >  //Februry 2008//: 1200 provenance records for books in the Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla have been added to the CERL Thesaurus. >  //Februry 2008//: 1200 provenance records for books in the Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla have been added to the CERL Thesaurus.
  
->    The web site of the Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla has information about the history of the university and its libraries and about the [[http://www.ucm.es/BUCM/foa/english_version/historical.htm|provenances of its historical collections]].+>    Illustrated Database of former owners of the Biblioteca Histórica Marqués de Valdecilla, in progress [[https://biblioteca.ucm.es/historica/procedencias-1]].
  
->    Previous owners can be search for through the [[http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi~S1|Rare Books on-line catalogue]], by selecting the author field in the drop-down menu and typing the name with the addition of ‘ant. pos.’ (former owner).+>    Previous owners can be searched for through the [[http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi~S1|Rare Books on-line catalogue]], by selecting the author field in the drop-down menu and typing the name with the addition of ‘ant. pos.’ (former owner).
  
 >    E.g. to search for books which belonged to the Colegio Mayor San Ildefonso at Alcalá de Henares, enter the words ‘Colegio Mayor San Ildefonso ant. pos.’. [[http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi/a?Colegio+Mayor+de+San+Ildefonso+%28Alcala+de+Henares%29+ant.+Pos.|View the results of this search.]] >    E.g. to search for books which belonged to the Colegio Mayor San Ildefonso at Alcalá de Henares, enter the words ‘Colegio Mayor San Ildefonso ant. pos.’. [[http://cisne.sim.ucm.es/search*spi/a?Colegio+Mayor+de+San+Ildefonso+%28Alcala+de+Henares%29+ant.+Pos.|View the results of this search.]]
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 === Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, Biblioteca General Histórica === === Salamanca, Universidad de Salamanca, Biblioteca General Histórica ===
->  A complete listing of provenance names is currently being compiled for the Biblioteca General Histórica of the Universidad de Salamanca. Each entry will give as much information as possible including biographical dates and activities, ownership marks and notes, as well as bookplates and bindings, all with digitized images and bibliographies. A description of the project and an alphabetical index of names (linked to the catalogue records) can be found on the [[http://www.usal.es/bgh/1024/html/indexlis.htm|project web site]].+ 
 +>  Illustrated database of former owners, in progress: [[http://bibliotecahistorica.usal.es/index.php?]] 
 + 
 +>  A complete listing of provenance names is currently being compiled for the Biblioteca General Histórica of the Universidad de Salamanca. Each entry offers as much information as possible including biographical dates and activities, ownership marks and notes, as well as bookplates and bindings, all with digitized images and bibliographies. 
  
 >  Former owners can also be searched on the [[http://brumario.usal.es/search*spi~S3/|online catalogue of the Fondo Histórico]] (books printed before 1831) of the University of Salamanca. >  Former owners can also be searched on the [[http://brumario.usal.es/search*spi~S3/|online catalogue of the Fondo Histórico]] (books printed before 1831) of the University of Salamanca.
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 +
 +==== SWEDEN ====
 +=== Uppsala, University Library ===
 +
 +>   [[http://probok.alvin-portal.org/alvin/home.jsf|ProBok]], a database of bindings.
  
  
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 >  These names have now been added to the [[resources:provenance:cerl_thesaurus|CERL Thesaurus]]. >  These names have now been added to the [[resources:provenance:cerl_thesaurus|CERL Thesaurus]].
  
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 +==== UNITED KINGDOM ====
 +
 +===British Armorial Bindings ===
 +>[[http://armorial.library.utoronto.ca/]] A comprehensive catalogue of all the coats of arms, crests, and other heraldic devices that have been stamped by British owners on the outer covers of their books, together with the bibliographical sources of the stamps. By John Morris, continued and edited by Philip Oldfield, under the sponsorship of the Bibliographical Society of London in conjunction with the University of Toronto Library.
 +
 +=== Alan Nelson, Index to former owners of various printed books ===
 +>    [[http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~ahnelson/PROVENANCE/select.html| Professor Nelson’s private web site]] has two on-line provenance indexes for early English books:\\  --  Books owned by Humphrey Dyson (1582–1633) listed by library and by STC-number\\ --  Provenance Index to UMI-STC microfilms (1475–1640).\\ The web site is temporarily unavailable (January 2009).
 +
 +=== Margaret Lane Ford, Early Book Owners in Britain ===
 +> The British History of books, which started in the early Middles Ages and continues to date, comprises not only the establishment of printed books in Great Britain, but also the import and buying of them. The private ownership of printed books is up to now a barely investigated question. Margaret Lane Ford addresses herself to this task in respect of the private ownership of printed books in the late 15th and early 16th century. For a contribution to The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain she has gathered evidences of provenances for the time period in question from over 4300 printed works in the past, books in private ownership had a high practical value and were of importance for the professionalism. Classical and theological texts were indispensable for the university-educated and the students, while technical works were needed by merchants and handcrafters.
 +> [[http://ebob.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?start=true|Search EBOB]]
 +
 +=== William M. Hamlin, Alphabetical List of Private Book-Owners and Institutional Collections ===
 +>   [[http://www.wsu.edu/~whamlin/list.html|Professor Hamlin's site at Washington State University]] lists former owners (c. 1500--1700) as part of his project on //Early Modern English Library Catalogues: A Working Bibliography//
 +
 +=== Private Libraries in Renaissance England (PLRE) ===
 +>  A new online database [[http://plre.folger.edu|PLRE.Folger]] contains records of nearly 13,000 books drawn from book-lists compiled in England between 1507 and 1653, itemizing the collections of 196 owners.  These records include the book-lists appearing in 162 probate inventories taken under the jurisdiction of the Chancellor of Oxford University.  
 +>  The [[http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/rjfehr|PLRE Project website]] offers a detailed alphabetical list of the names of the owners of the libraries and a chronological index of inventories.  
 +>  The printed volumes which underlie the database are published by Medieval and Renaissance Texts and Studies (Tempe, AZ) and are available in the United Kingdom and Europe from Adam Matthew Publications (Marlborough, Wiltshire).
 +
 +=== English book owners in the seventeenth century ===
 +>   [[http://www.bibsoc.org.uk/electronic-publications.htm|The Bibliographical Society : Electronic Publications]]
 +>   David Pearson offers this list as work in progress to construct a reference source on seventeenth-century English book owners, based on various kinds of evidence. It does not seek to cover Scottish and Irish owners, unless they were predominantly English-based. The aim is to focus on collections which were at least partly, if not entirely, formed within the seventeenth century and the list includes people who died between 1610 and 1715. The author hopes that the list may already have enough data to be useful in various kinds of ways, and that it will stimulate responses and ideas as to how it should be developed. 
 +
 +=== Corpus Christi College, Cambridge ===
 +>    [[http://www.corpus.cam.ac.uk/parker-library/on-line-catalogue/provenance|Parker Library Cataloguing Project - Provenance]]
 +>    Names may be present in books for a variety of reasons. Inscriptions suggest it was the custom for fellows of the College to present books to the Library on relinquishing their fellowships. In these cases, the books were unlikely ever to have been in the personal library of the donor, who may have given money for their purchase rather than the books themselves. The presence of more famous names may record presentations by authors of one of their works, either to the library itself or to a previous owner. A number of these names represent former owners of the books, which later made their way by bequest, donation or purchase to the library at Corpus Christi. Finally, there are a small number of names of binders, second-hand booksellers and authors of letters found inside books.
 +
 +=== St John's College, Cambridge ===
 +>    [[http://www.joh.cam.ac.uk/library/special_collections/provenance/|Provenance & Binding Indexes]]
 +>    The early printed books and manuscripts held in the Library were often owned by various individuals before they ended up in its collections. Sometimes well-known or celebrated individuals left their mark on a volume, whether a signature, motto, bookplate or specially made binding. More often they were more obscure, leaving just a name or a doodle. The  indexes do not provide a comprehensive listing of provenance, but are an attempt to list both the most substantial donors and some of the more interesting names associated with volumes in the Library. The Upper Library Cataloguing Project has included provenance information in its records, with individual names searchable under 'Author' on the University Library's [[http://collpw-newton.lib.cam.ac.uk/|Newton Catalogue]]. A complete listing of provenance names is being compiled as part of the Project; for details, please ask the [[jah63@cam.ac.uk|Special Collections Librarian]].
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 +=== Canterbury Cathedral Library ===
 +>  [[canterbury cathedral|Provenance names for books printed before 1801]]\\ A provisional list of 3152 former owners, based on the provenance index published in the microfiche catalogue of the Cathedral's books printed before 1801 (David Shaw and Sheila Hingley (and others), //Canterbury Cathedral Library: Catalogue of pre-1801 printed books// Adam Matthew Publications, Marlborough, 1998. 24 pp + 17 microfiches).
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 +> [[resources:provenance:canterbury_cathedral:mendham|Provenance names from the Mendham Collection]]\\ The 1,148 provenance names for the books in the Mendham Collection are linked to the full bibliographical records on the OPAC at the University of Kent at Canterbury.  These name records have been supplied to the CERL Thesaurus and will appear on the provenance index in the Thesaurus shortly. The full bibliographical records for books printed before 1830 will be added to the [[resources:hpb:main|Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB)]] in 2009.\\ \\ The Mendham Collection comprises Catholic and anti-Catholic literature including manuscripts and printed books ranging from the 15th to the 19th centuries. Among its contents are some fine bindings and rare examples of Continental printing. The collection is on deposit at Canterbury Cathedral Library from the Law Society. 
 +
 +>  See also [[http://www.djshaw.co.uk/cantlibs/|Books and libraries in Canterbury]] (information about libraries, books, book-owners, etc. in Canterbury before c. 1900).
 +
 +=== British Library, London ===
 +>  [[http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/findhelprestype/prbooks/provenanceresearch/provenanceresearch.html|Provenance research]]
 +>  This page gives guidance about the provenance information available about the British Library's printed collections. It includes details of the stamps and shelf marks which help to identify particular collections and to publications which give further guidance.
 +
 +>  [[http://www.bl.uk/news/2008/pressrelease20081118.html|Sir Hans Sloane's Library]] 
 +>  The Sloane Printed Books Catalogue is a joint initiative by the British Library and the Wellcome Trust Centre for the History of Medicine at University College London.  It aims to 'virtually' reunite the printed book collections formerly owned by the renowned physician, scientist and collector **Sir Hans Sloane** (1660--1753). His collection, comprising around 40,000 printed books, was one of the largest libraries in Europe of its time and is particularly significant for its holdings of medical and scientific material.
 +>  The Introductory pages to the [[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/|online catalogue]] provide information about the [[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/History.aspx|history of Sloane's collections]] and on the [[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/Identifiers.aspx|characteristic marks]] which help to identify books no longer in the British Library's collections. The [[http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/sloane/Advancedsearch.aspx|Advanced Search]] page offers a drop-down menu of libraries which have already contributed details of Sloane items in their collections.
 +
 +=== Westminster Abbey, London ===
 +> [[http://bibsoc.adaptivetechnologies.com/publications/recent/westminster|Incunabula in the Westminster Abbey and Westminster School Libraries]] by Christopher D. Cook, with bookbinding descriptions by Mirjam M. Foot.\\ London: The Bibliographical Society, 2013. 185pp; 23 colour illustrations. ISBN: 978 0 948170 23 9.\\ Includes an 'Index of Donors, Former Owners and Associated Names'.
 +
 +=== Bodleian Library, Oxford ===
 +>  [[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/rbd.html|Provenance index of rare books collections in the Bodleian Library]]\\ From the Bodleian Library's entry in //A directory of rare book and special collections in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland// / edited by B.C. Bloomfield with the assistance of Karen Potts (Library Association, 1997).\\ A comprehensive description of the origins and contents of the many constituent collections of the Bodleian and its dependent libraries.
 +
 +>  [[http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/bod-inc.html|BodInc]]: //A catalogue of books printed in the fifteenth century now in the Bodleian Library, Oxford//.\\ The provenance index of the Bodleian's incunabula catalogue is available as a downloadable PDF file: {{http://www.bodley.ox.ac.uk/csb/bod-inc_Index_Provenances_etc.pdf|Index of Provenances, Owners, Donors, and other names}}.
 +
 +>  [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/oxford_csb/sets/72157629489440232/]]: Unidentified coats of arms in Bodleian incunables.
 +
 +
 +===St John's College, Oxford===
 +> In 2008, St John's College Library in Oxford completed retrospective cataloguing of its large collection of early printed books. Copy-specific information was recorded for every volume, following the "OLIS antiquarian standard". MARC 852 fields hold information on: Provenance names, Binding descriptions, Size, Previous shelfmarks, Bookplates, etc.\\ \\ Currently, this information is not searchable by individual field name in the OPAC of Oxford University (OLIS). This means that one can't currently search by "Provenance name", for example. However, in the telnet interface of OLIS, one can search for strings in the MARC 852 field, the search command is "cgw=". One can then limit the search by library.\\ \\ After the implementation of Oxford University's new library management system in 2011, it is hoped that individual fields in the MARC 852 will become searchable.  Until OLIS becomes searchable by provenance name, St John's College Library posts a preliminary list of provenance names on its webpages. The list gets updated occasionally. It is not complete. See http://www.sjc.ox.ac.uk/1435/Provenances.html 
 +
 +=== Hazlitt's Roll of Honour ===
 +>  William Carew Hazlitt, //A Roll of Honour: a calendar of the names of over 17,000 men and women who throughout the British Isles and in our early colonies have collected MSS. and printed books from the XIVth to the XIXth century, with topographical and personal notices and anecdotes of many of them and their libraries and introductory remarks.// London, Quaritch, 1908.\\ A digitised version of the main text is [[http://books.google.com/books?q=hazlitt+roll+honour&btnG=Search+Books|available on GoogleBooks]]
  
 ==== UNITED STATES ==== ==== UNITED STATES ====
-=== Pennsylvania University, Penn Provenance Project === +=== Pennsylvania University, Provenance Online Project (POP) === 
->   [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/58558794@N07/collections/72157626385042757/]]: Images of Unidentified, partially identified, or identified bookplates, stamps, inscriptions, and bindings from their Special Collections material.+>   [[http://www.flickr.com/photos/58558794@N07/collections/72157626385042757/]]: Images of Unidentified, partially identified, or identified bookplates, stamps, inscriptions, and bindings from their Special Collections. 
 + 
 + 
 +=== Rare Books and Manuscripts Section - ALA === 
 +>   [[http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/controlled_vocabularies/provenance/tr_idx65.htm|RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Provenance Evidence Terms]]
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