TRACES OF USE

Bibliography

The British Library. Bibliography.

Yale Law School. Resources for collecting law books.

Washington State University. Bibliography of early modern English library catalogues.

Blogs and Articles

Glasgow Emblem Project. On the Alciato/Stockhamer editions.

Marianna Czapnik. ‘Descriptive Cataloguing and the Study of Provenances of Early Printed Books as a Source for Historical Research.’ Warsaw University Library. 2004. 

Massachusetts Center for Renaissance Studies. Rare Book Blog.

David Pearson, ‘Patterns of Book Ownership in Late Seventeenth-Century England.’ In: The Library. Vol. 11, Issue 2. p.139-167.  

Princeton University. History of collecting. 

W. Roberts, ‘Women as Book Collectors’. In: ---, The Book-Hunter in London. 1895. 

William Sherman, 'Toward a History of the Manicule.' 2005.

Yale Law Library. Provenance puzzles.

Databases. Ongoing Research

Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève. Université de Paris. Reliures estampées à froid, 12e-18e siècles. 

Bibliothèque municipale de Lyon. Provenance des livres anciens.

Bibsite. The Bibliographical Society of America. Bibliographical works, regular updates. 

Boekgeschiedenis. Webexpositie ‘Licht beduimeld’. Gebruikssporen in handschriften en boeken.

The British Library. Database of bookbindings.

C.E.R.L. Mendham Collection. Names of former owners.

C.E.R.L. On-line provenance resources. 

C.E.R.L. Thesaurus. Accesses European libraries for provenance records.

Penn Libraries. Kladcat’s photostream. (Un)identified provenance.

The Reading Experience Database 1450-1945. 

Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin. Einbanddatenbank gefördert durch die Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. 

Unofficial Index to Ilse Schunke's 'Die Schwenke-Sammlung'. Compiled by Michael Laird & Paul Needham. 

WorldCat. Online Centrale Catalogue of OCLC (Online Computer Library Center). 

Provenance Project

The British Library. Reunited collection of Sir H. Sloane.

Help for Provenance Researchers

American Library Association. Provenance evidence terms.

The British Library. Help for provenance researchers.

Centre for Early Modern Studies (C.E.M.S.). Exploring Renaissance texts: book ownership.

C.E.R.L. Can You Help? Provenance queries. 

University of Glasgow. Finding the copy specifics in rare books

Theleme Sorbonne. Identification des livres anciens XV-XVIIIe siècle.

Princeton University. Finding annotated books in the Princeton catalogue.