Continental European Books in Early Modern England, 1500-1640: datasets, data model diagrams, and documentation

How did the circulation of imported or translated books vary depending on the location and social background of readers?</li></ul><p dir="ltr">The project drew on Bibliographic Data Science to harmonize the following five source datasets as Linked Open Data:</p><ol><li>Renaissance Cultural Crossroads Catalogue (<a href="dhi.ac.uk/data/rcc" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">dhi.ac.uk/data/rcc</a>).</li><li>Private Libraries in Renaissance England (<a href="plre.folger.edu/" rel="noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">plre.folger.edu/</a>).</li><li>Provincial Booksellers (from the Appendix to Jennifer Winters, ‘The English Provincial Book Trade: Bookseller Stock-Lists, c.1520-1640’ (PhD thesis, University of St Andrews, 2012), available for download at <a href="hdl.handle.net/10023/3449" target="_blank">hdl.handle.net/10023/3449</a>).</li><li>Plantin Sales (ZvL) (Excel spreadsheet with sales of Christophe Plantin to English buyers (1558–89) produced by Zanna van Loon, Curator of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Museum Plantin-Moretus in Antwerp).</li><li>Plantin Sales (CEBEME) (dataset produced by project based on records of sales by Officina Plantiniana to English buyers, 1590-1610).</li></ol><p dir="ltr">Users should refer to the documentation included for detailed information on what is included in the project database and the technical specifications.

The database can be accessed via a user interface on the web at <a href="cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">cebeme.manchester.ac.uk/</a>.</p>