A very inspiring day with presentations concerning the development of databases of ownership marks and other traces of use, by representatives of the Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin, the Uppsala University Library and the Consortium of European Research Libraries. A most important undertaking which unfortunately is still very much a home country affair. There are however plans for international collaboration, which would hugely benefit provenance research. Some interesting case studies and a lecture by David Pearson, which had drawn me to the symposium in the first place. Prime provenance researcher, with an open attitude to innovation and to the range of the possiblities of research of traces of use; I felt reassured about my doubts about interpretation of (greek) annotations and went home eager to revalue my findings up until now.
The symposium was a joint initiative of the Leiden University Library and the Scaliger Insitute, also in Leiden. It seems the lectures will be made available on the site of the latter.
