[DCRM-L] Cataloging a Manuscript Fragment That's Been Reunited with Its Original Codex

[Erin Blake]

Congratulations!

See https://catalog.folger.edu/record/228887 for how we handled a similar
situation.

Basically, we added the new section to the existing bib record because
they're both part of the same intellectual whole.

We used the body of the record to describe what's true of the whole thing,
and two separate "holdings" to show where they diverge (e.g., their
provenance is the same to a point, then each part has its own history of
ownership and binding).

Erin

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On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 5:18 PM Rebecca Flore via DCRM-L <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>
>
> My library recently acquired a manuscript leaf that at some point in its
> history was removed from a codex manuscript that we hold. For anyone whose
> library has reunited two parts of the same manuscript like this, how did
> you handle the cataloging? Did you catalog them as two separate resources,
> or did you catalog them as a single resource with a note about how the
> number of physical units of the manuscript in hand differs from the number
> of units originally produced? In terms of physical arrangement, we plan to
> shelve the leaf and the codex next to each other, with the leaf in its own
> box.
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>
>
> Best wishes,
>
>
>
> Rebecca
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>
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>
> Rebecca Flore, PhD
>
> Special Collections Metadata Librarian
>
> Hanna Holborn Gray Special Collections Research Center
>
> University of Chicago Library
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> rflore at uchicago.edu
>
> 773-702-7602
>
> https://www.lib.uchicago.edu/scrc/
>
>
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