34 A New Tool for Describing Provenance Images
CERL’s Provenance Digital Archive
abstract
Following the rise of the study of the history of the book in the eighties and nineties, provenance studies have become an important component in the research of social and cultural historians. This development was noticed and embraced by the Consortium of European Research Libraries (CERL). The Consortium incorporated results of provenance research in existing resources and new ones were developed. The latest development is the CERL Provenance Digital Archive, an international online database to describe images of provenance marks.
Keywords: Provenance marks • History of the boo • Provenance research • Images