Welcome to the blog of the MEDIATE project, that is currently being carried out at Radboud University, Nijmegen (The Netherlands), and…
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Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, all spring and summer conferences were either cancelled or postponed. To have some sort of substitution,…
This blog was published on the Footprints website. Many thanks to Michelle Chesner who allowed us to cross-post it here. For…
Research into female book ownership can be a complicated and unrewarding task. Sources are scarce and furthermore, married women often disappear…
At the end of the sixteenth century the first book sales catalogues of private libraries were published in the Dutch Republic.…
In 1689, London bookseller Jacob Tonson published an anonymous skit in Latin entitled AUCTIO DAVISIANA Oxonii habita. Per Gulielmum Cooper, Edvar.…
The catalogue of the books of the deceased “Mr Briot” that appeared in Paris in 1679, is a relatively early French…
The printed catalogues of private libraries we work with in the MEDIATE project not only constitute a rich source for researchers…