[DCRM-L] Signatures question

[Rettberg, Dan]

Dear Ms. Ellingson-

 

In the FYI department, I also am reluctant to contribute too much since
I know there are those on this list who have far more specialized
backgrounds than I. But, that's the great thing about such lists. Most
people are very generous with their knowledge and very willing to share.

 

I would suggest the only change you would want to make would to give the
initial unsigned gathering in your book as pi[superscript 2]. As to the
sewing, depending upon how recently your piece has been bound it may not
be of great use to you in any case.

 

Dan Rettberg

 

Daniel J. Rettberg, Ph.D.

Rare Book and Manuscript Bibliographer

Klau Library

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

3101 Clifton Avenue

Cincinnati, OH 45220-2488

 

drettberg at huc.edu

 

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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Alisa Ellingson
Sent: Thursday, September 11, 2008 6:10 PM
To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
Subject: [DCRM-L] Signatures question

 

Hello all,

 

I'm a fairly new cataloger, and this is my first post to the list.  I
never post to these lists because I haven't got all the "cataloger
lingo" down, so I hope you'll forgive my inexperience if I say something
wrong!  I am cataloging a 19th-century Italian publication with some
unusual numbering on the signatures.  It starts with two unsigned
leaves, then the first numbered signature says 1* and has four leaves.
Next comes signature 2 with two leaves, then 2* with four leaves, then
3* with two leaves, then 3 with four leaves, and so on and so forth
until 10, which has four leaves.  I hope that makes sense.  Basically,
it looks like this:

 

[1]2 1*4 22 2*4 32 3*4 42 4*4 52 5*4 62 6*4 72 7*4 82 8*4 92 9*4 104

 

I imagine there is a better way to do that, but I don't know how.  It is
in a modern pamphlet binding, which is too tight to see the stitching.
Any ideas?

 

Thanks,

Alisa Ellingson

Special Collections Cataloger

Brigham Young University

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