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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#993366">I don't believe there's any circumstance in which a superscript '1' or any other superscript odd number is allowed (with the rare exceptions for 18mo's in 9's).
It seems to me you have a choice between doing what the ESTC does, describe how the leaves are signed but not try to create a signature statement since the signatures have nothing to do with the book's collation; or devise a signature statement using the traditional
formula and making it clear that the signings don't match the book, as in 7B9.5 (Signatures do not match gatherings).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Georgia","serif";color:#993366">Except that you don't have gatherings. I don't see any reasonable way of doing it except as the ESTC has done.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#5F497A">Deborah J. Leslie | Folger Shakespeare Library | djleslie@folger.edu |<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif""> DCRM-L [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu]
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gemberling, Ted P<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, 19 July, 2018 15:39<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group<br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Uneven gatherings for broadsheet format books?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Bob,
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D">Thanks for the input on this. The book does have watermarks on every sheet. Let me see if I can understand the implication. Are you saying that if it were a
folio, the watermarks would be in the middle of the sheet? They are not. They are placed in agreement with what Gaskell says about whole sheets on p. 61: “… by the sixteenth century they were normally put in the centre of one half of the oblong, so that when
a sheet of paper was folded in half (as in a folio), the watermark appeared in the centre of *<b>one</b>* of the two leaves” (emphasis mine). So I guess the fact they are present on every leaf indicates it must be full sheet.
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One other question: why would </span><span style="font-size:14.0pt">[1]-[45]<sup>1</sup>
</span>be better than pi² A<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span> B-C<sup>5</sup> D-G<span style="font-family:"Cambria Math","serif"">⁶</span> H<sup>3?
</sup>(I’ll admit I missed the fleuron on the second leaf.) Is it that the use of lettered signatures disguises the real format of the book?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Thanks, Ted <sup> </sup><sup><span style="font-size:14.0pt"><o:p></o:p></span></sup></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif"">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif""> DCRM-L <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Robert Steele<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Thursday, July 19, 2018 6:43 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Users' Group <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> Re: [DCRM-L] Uneven gatherings for broadsheet format books?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The British Library record, which I looked at in Early English Books Online, following a record from the Universal Short Title Catalog, has a note which reads:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bound from separate sheets, not gathered in quires. After the title page the sheets are signed [fleuron], A1-6, B1-6 (i.e. B1-5, with 4 signed "B iiii v"), C1-5, D1-6, E1-6, F1-6, G1-6, H1-3. <o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">There really are no gatherings. The signing does not represent the structure of the book. (Folding a sheet produces an even number of leaves; in this case individual sheets are simply piled up, with signatures serving to keep the individual
sheets in order, and so the printer could use any erratic system he thought made sense.)
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<p class="MsoNormal">You could ignore the signings and use:[1]-[45]<sup>1</sup> (if I am right about the number of leaves), with a note explaining the observed signing. That way the structure of the book is represented correctly. I am nonetheless prepared to
defer to those better informed than I.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">One further question: Do you see any watermarks? That will help you understand whether the book is constructed from whole sheets, as per the British Library record, or detached half-sheets.<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">Bob Steele<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 4:51 PM, Gemberling, Ted P <<a href="mailto:tgemberl@uab.edu" target="_blank">tgemberl@uab.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro"">I haven’t done a lot of broadsheet books. I notice, looking over the ones I’ve done, that they usually are
either unsigned or look something like this one: </span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Signatures: pi1 A-N¹ ; 14 leaves.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro"">So there are really no “gatherings.”
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span lang="EN" style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:"Source Sans Pro"">Ted G.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><b>From:</b> DCRM-L <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu</a>>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Gemberling, Ted P<br>
<b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, July 18, 2018 12:21 PM<br>
<b>To:</b> DCRM Revision Group List (<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>) <<a href="mailto:dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu" target="_blank">dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu</a>><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Uneven gatherings for broadsheet format books?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">I remember at Rare Book School we were taught that gatherings cannot be of odd numbers of leaves. If a gathering has 5 leaves, we must add a parenthetical statement saying one leaf
has been added to a gathering of 4 leaves or removed from a gathering of 6. My understanding of that was that if gatherings are created by folding, they have to be of even numbers of sheets because the first fold creates 2 sheets. But would that apply to broadsheet
format? It seems like it wouldn’t. <br>
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The book I’m working on is Compendiosa totius anatomie delineatio, aere exarata, by Thomas Geminus, 1545. The sheets are 39 centimeters, and the original cataloger interpreted it as full sheet format. I assume that in terms of Gaskell p. 86 (2007), she is interpreting
the paper as “pot” size, where the height is 39 cm. The paper has horizontal chainlines, so I thought maybe that’s correct. However, I notice that the normal gathering in the book is 6 leaves. There are two gatherings that have 5 and one with 3. One of the
gatherings with 5 has leaf B4 (or B5?) signed: 'Biiii v', as if the printer figured the gathering could be reduced from 6 to 5 leaves, with that leaf taking the place of two. Doesn’t that imply this book has leaves that are folded, and should therefore be
interpreted as folio with turned chainlines?<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Thanks for any enlightenment.
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto">Ted Gemberling<o:p></o:p></p>
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