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1)    PAUL NEEDHAM, INDEX POSSESSORUM INCUNABULORUM (=IPI)CERL is very pleased to announce that there is now available, through ourProvenance Research pages, Paul Needham's Index Possessorum Incunabulorum(=IPI).IPI contains some 32,000 entries relating to the ownership of incunabula,including personal names, institutional names, monograms, and arms. Theywere extracted by Needham from some 200 published catalogues of incunabulawith provenance information, and they have been much augmented withinformation from his own research.We are very grateful to Dr Paul Needham, Scheide Librarian, ScheideLibrary, Princeton University Library, for letting CERL make availableto the public his extraordinary tool for provenance research.More information on IPI, and how to search it, on:http://ipi.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl2)    MATERIAL EVIDENCE IN INCUNABULA (=MEI)http://incunabula.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl [English version]http://incunabula.cerl.org/cgi-bin/search.pl?lang=it [Italian version]Also available now through CERL's Provenance Research pages is a newdatabase specifically designed to record and search the materialevidence (or copy specific, post-production evidence, provenanceinformation) of 15th-century printed books: ownership, decoration,binding, manuscript annotations, stamps, prices, etc.MEI is linked to the Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue (ISTC), fromwhich it derives the bibliographical records, and it allows the userto combine search of bibliographical and copy-specific records.MEI has been designed to contain new data from book-in-handexamination or from card- catalogues, as well as what can be got byretrospective conversion of data from published catalogues ofincunabula. Records can be downloaded in Marc21 or Unimarc Holdingsfor integration into local OPACs.Records are being inserted at the moment by a number of libraries.Contribution of records to MEI is free and welcome: any library withincunabula holdings is encouraged to insert their copy specificrecords. Please get in touch with CERL's Secretary, Cristina Dondi atc.dondi@cerl.orgFrom the Secretary of CERL, Cristina Dondi MEI example:ISTC Record No. ih00427960Title proper:Horae: ad usum Celestinorum ordinis S. BenedictiImprint:Naples : Martinus de Amsterdam, 27 Jan. 1499more...CopiesManchester, John Rylands University Library [Manchester JRL] (uk)Shelfmark:18193Copy Id:02000285Size of Leaves:140mm x 106mmMaterial:Book: parchment, vellum     Plates:     Watermark:ProvenancePlace:ItalyArea:ItalyTime Period:16th cent., unknown decade to 16th cent., unknown decadeType of Prov.:BindingBinding:16th-century blind and gold-tooled calf ('foreign olive colour binding' in Dibdin), remains of 2 strings, 2 at fore-edge, one each upper and lower edges; at centre gilt crucifixion; gauffered edges gilt only within the gauffered design. 147 x 111 x 28 mm.Binding Date: 16th century Binding Type: Boards Board Material: Paper Cover Material: Leather Binding Status: Untouched (Original Binding) Tooling: blind and gold Edges: gilt Writing on Edges: none Gauffered: yesDecoration:Woodcut initials coloured. On a1r full floral and foliate border, in pink, blue, and green, gold bezants, in the lower margin a circular wreath containing the Virgin and Child (Fava-Bresciano pl. LII). Cut red initials decorated with blue penwork.Decoration Elements: Illuminations , Ornamental Letter , RubricationSources: Book in Hand (The recording of this provenance is considered certain)ProvenancePlace:Naples (CERL Thesaurus: cnl00004785)Area:ItalyTime Period:18th cent., unknown decade to 19th cent., 2nd decadeOwner:Luigi Serra, 1747-1825 (4th Duca di Cassano) (male; Aristocracy; unknown)Former OwnerNote:Catalogo [...] Cassano Serra, p. 44Sources: Book in Hand , Auction/Sales Catalogue (The recording of this provenance is considered certain)ProvenancePlace:London (CERL Thesaurus: cnl00007686)Area:Great BritainTime Period:19th cent., 2nd decade to 19th cent., 4th decadeOwner:George John Spencer, 1758-1834 (2nd Earl Spencer) (CERL Thesaurus: cnp00182076) (male; Aristocracy; politician)Former OwnerNote:Dibdin, Cassano, p. 79 no. 120.Method of acquisition: purchaseSources: Book in Hand (The recording of this provenance is considered certain)ProvenancePlace:Manchester (CERL Thesaurus: cnl00011485)Area:Great BritainTime Period:19th cent., last decade to 20th cent., unknown decadeOwner:Enriqueta Augustina Tennant, 1843-1908 (3rd wife of John Rylands 1801-1888) (female; no characterisation/lay; unknown)DonorNote:The Spencer collection was purchased in 1892 to become part of the John Rylands Library of Manchester, which she founded in 1899 as a memorial to her husband.Method of acquisition: purchaseSources: Book in Hand , Auction/Sales Catalogue (The recording of this provenance is considered certain) 