[DCRM-L] Cancellans leaves/gatherings

[Ted P Gemberling]

Richard,
The book is an octavo, and it looks like that’s a good solution. Thanks a lot. Your transcription shows the conjugacy of the leaves better than the one I proposed. As you said, mine implies no conjugacy between *T1 and chi1.

Ted Gemberling

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Assuming this is an octavo, is there any evidence that the cancellantia are not simply a half sheet? In any case, because of the way they are quired, those four leaves constitute a normal 4-leaf gathering inserted as a substitute for T1.What you have is T8(-T1 + *T4); the leaves of the whole resulting affair are referred to as T(*T1), T(*T2), T(*T3), T(*T4), T2, T3 etc.

If the second cancellans leaf is signed 'T2', without the asterisk, that should be noted as an irregularity in the typography of the signatures ("signing T(*T2) as 'T2'"), but its "name" for reference purposes derives from the signature that identifies the four leaves collectively, '*T'. Note that your suggested notation would describe two singleton leaves flanking a bifolium.

Good news: The various printings of Bowers are all from the first edition with isolated corrections, so there's no need to specify the printing when you refer to his page numbers.


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On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 3:49 PM, Ted P Gemberling <tgemberl at uab.edu<mailto:tgemberl at uab.edu>> wrote:
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
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