M. Gustave Julliot, Catalogue des inscriptions du Musée gallo-romain de Sens, Sens: C. Duchemin, 1865, OCLC: 23424132.
Digitized October 13, 2006:
Iohannes Cholodniak (I I Kholodniak), Carmina sepulcralia latina, Petropoli, Typis academicis, 1897, OCLC 24469385.
Digitized July 19, 2006:
The University of Michigan has just announced the digitization of the “millionth” book in their collaborative project with Google. I wondered: what epigraphic works have they scanned to date that are also available in full text. And so begins a series of blog posts where we explore the results of the following library catalog queries at the University of Michigan:
Only results providing full-text access will be presented. All articles in this series will be tagged into the mbooks category.
Three more publications that are unavailable (especially in the U.S.), and have recently carried some epigraphical content:
Five volumes of this journal published by the Istanbul museum now exist, but in the U.S. only two libraries carry it, and they only appear to have the first two volumes. Apparently devoted to art and antiquities.
Title: Palmet – Sadberk Hanım Müzesi Yıllığı
Publisher: İstanbul: Sadberk Hanım Müzesi: 1997
OCLC: 46426349
This journal, which despite the title does run epigraphical articles, is not even in Worldcat (though two related book volumes are):
Title: Kentron: Revue du Monde antique et de psychologie historique
Publisher: Presses universitaires de Caen
ISSN: 0765-0590
Webpage at which the table of contents for recent volumes are available (small, red link): https://www.unicaen.fr/services/puc/rubrique.php3?id_rubrique=58
Also, this appears to be an irregular monograph series. Worldcat shows that the recent volumes that have proper book titles and editors/authors were picked up by libraries (vols. 5, 7), but the ones that simply bear the series title were not (vols. 3, 6).
Title: Daidalos: studi e ricerche del Dipartimento di Scienze del Mondo Antico
Publisher: Viterbo Univ. degli Studi della Tuscia
Distributed by L’Erma di Bretschneider: https://www.lerma.it/D_Editore.asp?ID=24517
Dan Diffendale has started a public group photo pool on flikr devoted to spolia. At present the group has 8 members and 69 images. The images are publicly available. Any flickr member may contribute.
Readers will have noticed the recent addition of a new author at CurEp, Gil Renberg. Gil has brought with him the idea of a refinement to one of our core functions: the distribution of notices about new publications.
Every epigraphist is familiar with the scenario: a note from a colleague or a reference in a footnote or one of the annual bibliographies alerts us to an inscription we’d like to check for one reason or another. Our local library doesn’t have the publication, so we must have recourse to interlibrary loan or even a trip to another library. More often than we would like, the reference publication turns out to be very rare; perhaps it is not even held by a single library on the epigraphist’s continent!
Our goal is to help rectify this problem by inviting epigraphists like Gil (whose research is bringing them into contact with the problem) and classics and history librarians (who make acquisition decisions at the local level) to join the CurEp community and work together to identify problematic works and enhance their library availability and preservation. The editors encourage both existing CurEp authors — and interested parties who would like to join their ranks — to review our new guidance on posting publications notices and join us in achieving this goal.
Readers (epigraphists and librarians alike) will find the following thematic lists and associated web feeds a convenient way to review and monitor such posts:
Worldcat reveals this book, the source of AE 2004, 1014-1025, to be unavailable in research libraries outside of Germany:
Author: Witteyer, Marion
Title: Das Heiligtum für Isis und Mater Magna: Texte und Bilder
Published: Mainz am Rhein: Von Zabern: 2004
OCLC: 76510825
ISBN: 3805334370, 9783805334372
As with the books listed below, and others that we will start listing in this space as “Rare Publications,” it would be to our collective benefit for some of us to get our libraries to acquire such overlooked volumes.
CLARIFICATION: If you poke around in Worldcat you will find other books by this author about the sanctuary, but these appear to be guides for tourists who visit the site, not the archaeological publication that includes an epigraphical section.
Not a rare book, or even a book, but Worldcat shows no sign of any library having the Ficheiro Epigrafico CD-ROM produced by José d’Encarnação and Joaquín L. Gómez-Pantoja, which includes in .pdf format issues 1-66 (1982-2001) as well as new and revised indexes and a concordance with AE, CIL II, and HEp.
Available for purchase from Dr. Encarnação. Information is at https://www1.ci.uc.pt/iauc/pub/fe.html.
The following title is not owned by any U.S. libraries, and is very rare in Europe. I am told that it contains Latin inscriptions that have appeared since IDR was published.
Author: Constantin C. Petolescu
Title: Inscripţii latine din Dacia (ILD)
Published: Bucuresti: Ed. Acad. Române: 2005
OCLC #: 162264466
ISBN #: 9732712260, 9789732712269
Gil Renberg notes that the following work is under-represented in North American and European library collections as indicated by Worldcat:
Author: Corell, J. (Josep)
Title: Inscripcions romanes d’Ilici, Lucentum, Allon, Dianium i els seus territoris / Josep Corell ; amb la collaboració de Xavier Gómez i Concha Ferragut
Published: València : Nau Llibres, c1999
Description: 405 p. : ill., maps ; 30 cm
OCLC #: 51050034
ISBN: 8476425708
