Projects and Societies

Category: Database.
Place: Paris.
Institution: École nationale des chartes.
Launched in: 2017.
Le projet « Filigranes pour tous » vise à permettre le développement d'un outil de reconnaissance et d'identification partagées, sous forme entre autres d’une application pour smartphone, pour le papier médiéval et moderne...
Keywords: paper, watermark, Briquet.

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Categories: Database, Digitization.
Institution: Bibliothèque cantonale et universitaire.
No starting year specified.
Fleuron est une base de données d'ornements typographiques utilisés par les imprimeurs des siècles passés...
Keywords: iconography, print culture, book history, digital humanities, early modern studies.

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Category: Database.
Place: London.
Institution: British Library.
Launched in: 1994.
The Incunabula Short Title Catalogue is the international database of 15th-century European printing created by the British Library with contributions from institutions worldwide...
Keywords: incunabula, cataloging, digital humanities.

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Category: Database.
Launched in: 2015.
La liste chro­no­lo­gi­que ci-des­sous, com­plé­tée et mise à jour régu­liè­re­ment, inven­to­rie des dic­tion­nai­res, des glos­sai­res, des lexi­ques, des listes de mots clas­sés alpha­bé­ti­que­ment...

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Categories: Research project, Database.
Institutions: Università di Bologna, Université Caen Normandie, Bibliothèque Mazarine, Centre d'Études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Université de Savoie.
Launched in: 2013.
A collaborative research programm on production, diffusion and conserrvation of Italian books in France.

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Categories: Database, Research project.
Institution: Université Caen Normandie.
Launched in: 2008.
An inventary and a description of exemplars of Italian editions from the beginning of printing since 1600.
Keywords: book trade, diffusion.

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Category: Database.
Institutions: Hendrik Conscience Heritage Library, University of Antwerp, Université de Gand, KU Leuven, Bruges Public Library, Limburg Provincial Library.
Launched in: 2000.
An online database with extensive bibliographical descriptions of editions printed in Flanders before 1801
Keywords: book history, digital humanities, early modern studies.

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Categories: Research project, Digitization, Database.
Place: Berlin.
Institution: Max Planck Institute for the History of Science.
No starting year specified.
Knowledge System Evolution and the Shared Scientific Identity of Europe
Keywords: digital humanities, quadrivium, scientific book.

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Category: Database.
Place: Saint Andrews.
Institution: University of St Andrews.
Launched in: 2011.
The USTC is a collective database of all books published in Europe between the invention of printing and the end of the sixteenth century...
Keywords: 16c prints, cataloging, digital humanities.

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Categories: Web portal, Database.
Launched in: 2007.
Uranie est une bibliothèque numérique de livres anciens d’astronomie (1450-1850) issus des fonds des bibliothèques d’Aquitaine et de l’Observatoire de Paris.
Keywords: book history, history of science, mathematics, quadrivium, scientific book.

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