Promoting Europe's cultural heritage in print and manuscript
CERL seeks to share resources and expertise between research libraries with a view to improving access to, as well as exploitation and preservation of the European printed heritage in the hand-press period (up to c. 1850).
Main resources:
The Heritage of the Printed Book Database (HPB) contains high-level bibliographical records for items of European printing of the hand-press period (c. 1455–c. 1830) held at major European and North American research libraries.
The CERL Thesaurus contains multi-lingual information on names of persons and places found in catalogues of books of the hand-press period.
The CERL Portal provides cross-searching of catalogues of European manuscript and archival materials.
Scholarly Resources: