[DCRM-L] format again

[dooleyj]

That's the same class (different year) in which Paul said, in answer to my
question "What can a rare book catalog record do for you?", "Tell me where
the copies are." :) -Jackie

> From: Deborah Leslie <djleslie at folger.edu>
> Reply-To: DCRM-L <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> Date: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 18:55:28 +0000
> To: DCRM-L <dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu>
> Cc: "Paul Needham (needham at princeton.edu)" <needham at princeton.edu>
> Subject: Re: [DCRM-L] format again
> 
> Possibly the most important thing I learned in Paul Needham's course at Rare
> Book School, "Physical evidence in 15c books" or some such title, is that
> Incunables are Different. If I remember correctly, there were different
> presses for different formats, so the accepted format-identification criteria
> don't apply to incunables
> 
> Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S. | Head of Cataloging, Folger Shakespeare
> Library
> djleslie at folger.edu | 202.675-0369 | www.folger.edu
> 
> .
> -----Original Message-----
> From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf
> Of Cates, Patrick
> Sent: Thursday, 08 December, 2011 11:09
> To: DCRM Revision Group List
> Cc: Exlibris
> Subject: [DCRM-L] format again
> 
> I'm cataloging an incunable and I'm not sure what the format is.  The
> volume is Nicholas, of Lyra. Postilla Nicolai de lira super psalterium
> vna cum canticis. Lyon, 1493 (Goff N126).
> 
> Goff calls it a folio; GW calls it a 4to.  It's in gatherings of 8
> leaves with horizontal chain lines; water marks are at the bottom
> inside corner.  the leaf dimensions are about 248 x 158 mm.  So it's
> shaped like a folio, but sized like a quarto, and the watermarks are
> in the wrong place for either.
> 
> I'm stumped.
> 
> Patrick Cates
> Technical Services Librarian
> Christoph Keller, Jr. Library
> General Theological Seminary
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