The aim of the PROVENIO Project: The Method of Book Provenance Research, which was initiated by the National Museum Library in 2012, is to create the methodology for the cataloguing of provenance notes and marks in books in the MARC 21 cataloguing format. The article briefly summarises the existing…

The integration and retrieval of records containing provenance information is at the core of the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL)'s mission: provenance records can now be retrieved, when present, in the Heritage of the Printed Book database (HPB), in the CERL Portal (CP), in the CERL…

Most German libraries holding important historical collections are increasingly engaged in provenance description as an important issue of considering books as material objects. Since the publication of the Washington Principles in 1998 provenance research gained special interest as a means of…

For more than twelve years, the Bibliothčque municipale de Lyon has been striving to create a Provenance database linking its collections to their former owners, Throughout Europe and now through the streets of the city of Lyon itself with walking tours evoking the history of ancient libraries, this…

Since December 2012, the Bibliothèque de l’Institut de France has offered a provenance database including rare books and manuscripts. The records have been divided into four parts: the former owners, the mark of ownership, the book, and the photographs of the mark and its location.…

The project “The Cultural Heritage of the Monasteries Dissolved in the Former Polish Commonwealth and in Silesia during the 18th and 19th Centuries: The Fate, Importance, Inventory” (www.kasaty.pl), which has been worked on in the Early Printed Books Department of the University of Warsaw…

The study compares theoretical approaches of provenance research in book culture history with the author’ experience acquired in the treatment of the historical book collection in the Central Library of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. Book archaeology has provided results in the form of…

Research of ownership marks in preserved libraries from both private and institutional book collections is a long-term process. It requires deep historical, cultural, ecclesiastical and literary knowledge to make it possible to reconstruct the given libraries. The article draws attention…

The study deals with the topic of aristocratic library provenance research in Slovakia. It mentions various particularities of this research, above all in the case of the libraries of noble families. It illustrates collecting activities over generations. The author characterises this type…

The study is aimed at relations between provenance research and the research of reader and reading history in the Early Modern Period. It explains various types and ways of property marking on selected examples of ownership notes. These are important for attaining a better knowledge of the…

A private library is a unique and random set of books and periodicals usually accumulated by a single person whose relation to the collection, or to a specific item, may be characterised either as the role of an owner of an object or the role of a reader. What is dominant in the first case…

Deep knowledge of individual volumes in the libraries of prominent personalities provides every literary historian with a better idea of the owner’s education, of the spiritual milieu in which he/she lived and worked, of his/her contacts with his/her artistic contemporaries, of his/her…

The historical collection of the Library of the Academy of Sciences of the CR (ASL) has not been created over the years by one private owner, family or institution; nevertheless, it still preserves resources interesting for researchers in terms of provenance. Through various methods of…

The study presents information based on the reconstruction of a fragment of the library of the first evangelical town school in Bratislava (1606–1672), which was confiscated by the Jesuit Order, as part of the provenance research conducted in 2006–2013. It describes the extant book…

The library collection of J. R. Vilímek deposited in the Museum of Czech Literature consists of various book sets issued by the publishing house Jos. R. Vilímek and of personal libraries of some members of the Vilímek family. Building on the information provided by a provenance analysis of…