The Short Title Catalog Flanders (STCV) is an online retrospective bibliography of books printed before 1801 on the territory of today's Flanders (including Brussels). The project is carried out by the Flemish Heritage Library. Because of the large size, the bibliography format is done step by step. The intention is to finally describe all printed work of 1801 in one database, but most of the copies described so far are from the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The database can be consulted free of charge via the internet and offers a lot of possibilities for studying the history of the hand-printed book in the Southern Netherlands. Origin
The STCV was established in 2000 according to the model of the Dutch project Short Title Catalog Netherlands (STCN). In the first phase (from 2000 to 2003) only Dutch-language printing was included. During the second phase, which ran from 2004 to 2007, the database was also expanded with non-Dutch books. This phase was subsidized by the Flemish Community under the Archives Decree. Since September 2009, the STCV project has been included in the Flemish Heritage Library, a consortium of six Flemish libraries with important heritage collections. Claims
Meanwhile, a large part of the book of the Heritage Library of Hendrik Conscience (Antwerp), the University Library of Antwerp, the University Library of Ghent, the University Library of Leuven, the Limburg Provincial Library (Hasselt), the Bruges Public Library, the city archives of Oudenaarde and Turnhout, the Plantin Moretus Museum (Antwerp) and the Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington, DC). The following collections have already been fully processed: the city archive of Mechelen, the Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp (KMSKA), the DIVA Antwerp Home of Diamonds (Antwerp), the Corpus Christianorum (Turnhout) and the National Museum of the Playing Card (Turnhout). The STCV currently contains (February 2016) more than 41,000 copies in more than 22,500 descriptions.
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