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

[Maria Oldal]

Rebecca,

You may want to consider the system(s) the record or records will live in,
and all the practical uses the record(s) will satisfy down the line. A
collection management system works much better with separate records. It
will be able to handle acquisition, credit line, provenance, location
tracking, conservation, exhibition, loans, etc. information much better,
especially that the two items remain physically separate. Even though a
library system can easily accommodate an extra item record and perform
library transactions at the item level, once you need to move and use the
record in a different system, it is difficult to tease out data elements
that are for the codex and the ones for the leaf. Another consideration is
the content of the leaf. If it is a full-page miniature, you may opt to
describe it under the illuminator with a title for the content of the
image, and elaborate on the connection to the codex in the notes and
additional access points.

Enjoy this wonderful new acquisition!

Maria

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Maria Oldal
Manager of Collections Information and Library Systems
The Morgan Library & Museum
225 Madison Avenue
New York, NY 10016
Tel: 212-590-0382
Email: oldalm at themorgan.org


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

> Hi all,
>
>
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> 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
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> Special Collections Metadata Librarian
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> 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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