[DCRM-L] Cancellans leaves/gatherings

[Ted P Gemberling]

I hope someone has some enlightenment on this puzzle. I have a book where leaf T1 has been cancelled and replaced by 4 leaves. The cancellans T1 is conjugate with leaf 4 of the group, and there’s another bifolium inserted between them, the first leaf of which is signed T2. There are two T2’s in the gathering, the one following cancellans T1 and the original T2 following all four inserted leaves.

I was taught at Rare Book School to follow Fredson Bowers’ notation, and I’ve been trying to figure out how to do it in this case. I’m stumped after looking over pages 243-49 for quite awhile (that’s 5th printing, 1998). Essentially, this is a leaf replaced by a fold, within which another fold has been inserted. Page 249 comes close to telling me what to do, but I’m just not sure I have it right. This is my tentative idea: T⁸ (-T1+*T,'T2'.1,chi1). The cancellans T1 is signed ‘*T’.  I didn’t use the simultaneous plus and minus sign because, as Bowers says, this isn’t the replacement of one leaf with another leaf or of one fold with another fold.

I put this note after the signature formula:

Gathering T⁸ has two leaves T2, one following the cancellans leaf *T and one following leaf chi1.

Any suggestions?

Ted Gemberling
UAB Lister Hill Library
(205)934-2461
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