Related Projects – In Progress

Our project is one among many interested in charting surviving copies of works printed between 1450 and 1700. The following examples include projects dedicated to the study of the history of collecting and reading.

Censuses of Specific Early Modern Books

Provenance – Book Ownership Projects

  • Copernicus Census: Gingerich, O. (2002). An annotated census of Copernicus’ De revolutionibus: (Nuremberg, 1543 and Basel, 1566). Brill.
  • Gutenberg Census: White, E. M. (2017). Editio Princeps: A History of the Gutenberg Bible. Harvey Miller Publishers.
  • Vesalius Census: Margócsy, D., Somos, M., & Joffe, S. N. (2018). The Fabrica of Andreas Vesalius: A Worldwide Descriptive Census, Ownership, and Annotations of the 1543 and 1555 Editions. Brill.