[DCRM-L] Smudges, palmprints, and offsets (but no cat prints)

[Schneider, Nina]

Hi Bob
 
This is a good question. I searched in Printing Evidence under
Pressman's work, but nothing seems appropriate for what you're
cataloging. There is also "Illegible markings" in Provenance, but that
doesn't seem correct either. Feel free to submit a proposal. 
 
Nina
 
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Nina Schneider
Head Cataloger
William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
2520 Cimarron Street
Los Angeles, CA  90018

323-731-8529
nschneider at humnet.ucla.edu
  


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Sent: Friday, October 03, 2008 12:02 PM
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Smudges, palmprints, and offsets (but no cat prints)



Those of you on sharp-l might remember a message last July about a copy
of a Mentelin incunable that had the shop's 15th century cat's paw
prints (in ink) walking across one of the leaves. The e-mail noted that
Mentelin is known to have been a sloppy printer. I thought I'd check our
2 Mentelin books to see if the cat visited them, too. Alas, I didn't
find any paw prints but I did find lots of evidence of sloppiness-ink
smudges every dozen pages or so, one page has a spectacular palm print
in ink in the margin-perhaps Mr. Mentelin's own!-and another has major
offsetting in the margin. I looked through the Printing thesaurus and
didn't find anything for messy printing, but I'd like to bring this out
somehow with a genre/form term-any ideas? Not that I expected "palm
prints" but something like ink smudges or offsetting I would have
expected-but maybe I just wasn't checking under the right term? Anyway,
any suggestions would be appreciated. 

 

Thanks,

Bob 

 

Robert L. Maxwell
Head, Special Collections and Metadata Catalog Dept.
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)422-5568

 

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