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| + | ====== Provenance Information ====== | ||
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| + | Interest in provenance information goes in and out of fashion. Once it was a bibliophilic interest concerned with authors’ association copies and books belonging to great men. Following the rise of the history of the book in the 1980s and 1990s, provenance studies have become an important ingredient in the work of social and cultural historians dealing with questions of readership and literacy. The ownership of books by craftsmen and women is now as significant as that of kings and archbishops. At the same time, a separate development of concern about the security of library collections has widened interest in recording provenances of all sorts, ancient and modern. | ||
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| + | CERL has seen its own interest in provenance grow over the years, reflecting the increase in interest on the part of its members and the wider scholarly public. Increasing numbers of records in the Heritage of the Printed Book Database now record provenance information. And CERL has added a Provenance Names section to the [[: | ||
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| + | These pages aim to give you access to a variety of resources that record provenance information. CERL is responsible for a number of resources that you can search below. CERL also maintains a webpage which lists online resources for provenance information, | ||
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| - | You may retrieve former owners and extensive descriptions of the copy specific evidence of 15th-century editions in the <a href="https://incunabula.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl">< | + | You may retrieve former owners and extensive descriptions of the copy specific evidence of 15th-century editions in the <a href="http://data.cerl.org/mei/_search">< |
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| - | If you would like help to identify a book plate, a binding stamp, a library label or stamp, | + | </ |
| - | or to read and identify an owner' | + | |
| - | you may search the <a href=" | + | |
| - | or post your own query there. | + | |
| - | You are also invited to help others with the identification of provenance evidence. | + | |
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| - | ====== Provenance Information ====== | ||
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| - | Interest in provenance information goes in and out of fashion. Once it was a bibliophilic interest concerned with authors’ association copies and books belonging to great men. Following the rise of the history of the book in the 1980s and 1990s, provenance studies have become an important ingredient in the work of social and cultural historians dealing with questions of readership and literacy. The ownership of books by craftsmen and women is now as significant as that of kings and archbishops. | ||
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| - | At the same time, a separate development of concern about the security of library collections has widened interest in recording provenances of all sorts, ancient and modern. | ||
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| - | CERL has seen its own interest in provenance grow in recent years, reflecting the increase in interest on the part of its members and the wider scholarly public. Increasing numbers of records in the Heritage of the Printed Book Database now record provenance information. More recently, CERL has added a Provenance Names section to the [[: | ||
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| - | CERL hopes that these pages will provide useful links to work going on in the recording of provenance data for both manuscripts and books of the hand-press period and also work on the study of provenance as part of the history of the book, the history of libraries and the history of reading. It is likely that the materials on this page will reflect the interests of members of the Consortium, especially in the context of work on CERL’s [[: | ||
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| - | ==== CERL Provenance | + | ==== CERL Provenance |
| - | CERL has developed | + | The Can-You-Help? |
| - | This database provides a user environment for discussing | + | This database provides a user environment for recording |
| - | When you have created a login, you can post queries | + | |
| - | For further information, | + | Queries posted on the Can-You-Help? |
| - | Go directly to the [[http:// | ||
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| - | * You are invited to [[: | ||
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