Month: January 2025

State of the Project, January 2025

A large initial letter D entwined with and surrounded by garlands, black ink on an ivory background
Initial letter D with garlands by The Metropolitan Museum of Art is licensed under CC-CC0 1.0

Happy New Year! After a break that took me through the last quarter of last year, I am back pushing at my data verification boulder once more. As you might be able to tell from the image above, I am finished with the letter D. D contains 100 verified entries, which I mention primarily because it’s such a conveniently round number. Particular highlights include the UNC-Chapel Hill Davis library, the Detroit Public Library, Duke University library, UCSB and UC-Berkeley, The Royal Danish Library, and (unexpectedly for me) The Biblioteca de Catalyuna in Barcelona, Spain.*

Number of Libraries Confirmed: 149
Number of Libraries Entered into the Database: 2
Number of Extant Copies Confirmed: 618

*Do note that when we’re talking large library systems, often times the library I wrote down initially is not where the thing is actually housed, or it’s in special collections inside the library at large, or it’s off in storage somewhere, so for now this bit of data is still slightly wibbly. The existence of the books is confirmed, though, and that’s the important thing.