GW. Datenbank «Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke» Incunabula Short Title Catalogue. The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue is the international database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library with contributions from institutions worldwide.
You can: perform a simple search using different kinds of keywords find items by browsing author, title, dates, and other headings The database records nearly every item printed from movable type before 1501, but not material printed entirely from woodblocks or engraved plates. 30,375 editions are listed as of March 2014, including some 16th-century items previously assigned incorrectly to the 15th century. Additions and amendments to ISTC are made frequently, and new information and comments and suggestions are always welcome by e-mail at incunabula@bl.uk. Information on each item includes authors, short titles, the language of the text, printer, place and date of printing, and format. Buchtitelblatt in der Inkunabel- und Frühdruckzeit. 15th-c books in the Bodleian Library. Incunabula Project blog. In December 2013, Ed Potten and Laura Nuvoloni travelled to Japan, at the invitation of Keio University, to participate in the international conference Text and illustration in early books and manuscripts: A comparative study.
The conference, held on 13 and 14 December, was organised by Professor Takami Matsuda and Dr Satoko Tokunaga of the EIRI Project, with the collaboration of Dr Mayumi Ikeda, Postdoctoral Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science. Keio University and Cambridge University have long had close ties. Cambridge’s copy of the Gutenberg Bible was the first to be digitized by the HUMI Project team in November 1998, led by Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya, himself a long-standing friend of Cambridge University Library and member of the Library’s Visiting Committee. National Trust Lyme Park, Courtesy of the National Trust Inc.2.B.3.6d[4638], fol.
Other papers were of particular relevance to the Incunabula Project. Biblia Pauperum – Inc.3[4248], fol. a verso. Early Printing in Europe: examples and evidence in Bodleian collections. U of Glasgow Incunabula Project. Welcome to the Glasgow Incunabula Project - a long-term University of Glasgow Library Special Collections project, which came into being in the Spring of 2009.
The Project has two main aims. Firstly, to produce for the first time a separate, stand-alone catalogue of the 1,000 plus incunabula in the University of Glasgow Library in the form of an electronic catalogue published on the University Library’s website. Secondly, building on the data contained in the Web Catalogue, to undertake a complete revision of the present records for incunabula scattered throughout the Library’s main online catalogue, many of which – produced nearly a century ago – now show deficiencies and inaccuracies.
Please note: the preparation of entries for the Web Catalogue is ongoing, and the website is a work in progress, with new records being added at regular intervals. See the library blog for updates on details of books recently added. Please contact the following Project staff: First Impressions-Manchester. Bodleian Incunable Catalogue - Bodleian Library. Bibliothèque Numérique Européenne de Manuscrits. Watermarks in incunabula printed in the low countries. IPI [CERL] Material Evidence in Incunabula. MEI is a database specifically designed to record and search the material evidence (or copy specific, post-production evidence and provenance information) of 15th-century printed books: ownership, decoration, binding, manuscript annotations, stamps, prices, etc.
MEI is linked to the Incunabula Short Title Catalogue (ISTC), provided by the British Library, from which it derives the bibliographical records, and it allows the user at last to combine searches of bibliographical records (extracted from ISTC) with copyspecific records. Uniquely, every element recorded (a certain style of decoration or binding, a manuscript note, etc.) is treated as a valuable clue for provenance, therefore it can be geographically located and chronologically dated. Explicit ownership notes are further categorised as private or institutional, religious or lay, female or male, and by profession. This enables tracking of the movement of books across Europe and through the centuries.