[DCRM-L] hand coloring and new descriptions

[Manon Theroux]

>
> MT: If you have a hand-colored item and evidence suggests that all copies
> were issued with the hand-coloring (e.g. you have a map with a legend
> indicating the colors used to portray different kinds of information), I
> assume the bibliographic record would have color indicated in 300 $b?
>
> FL: The task force did not discuss this situation (unless I dozed for that
> bit), but I believe your assumption is correct: we would indicate color in
> 300 $b.
>
> [DJL: ] Legends with instructions about hand-coloring do not provide
> evidence that all copies of a map were issued hand-colored, so once again,
> a cataloger will not know whether the hand-colored map in hand was issued
> that way by the publisher.
>
MT: This is the sort of legend I'm talking about:
http://www.davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/s/oj48v2
Personally, I would consider the "Erklärung der Farben" to be enough
evidence to assume that the item had been issued with the hand-coloring.
The map simply wouldn't make sense without the color - it needs the color
for informational purposes to show what it claims to be showing. It seems
rather doubtful to me that it would have been issued without it.


DJ: I'm copying Chet Van Duzer on this conversation; he's traveling at
> present but may be able to add something in due time. He is an historian of
> medieval and renaissance maps, one of the organizers of the Paint Over
> Print conference, and the presenter of the paper on his census of
> hand-colored maps in the 1513 Ptolemy. He will have more precise
> information about current research on hand-coloring.
>
MT: That would be welcome, of course! But let's also keep in mind that the
DCRM rules are intended to cover special collections materials from any
time period, not just the medieval and renaissance eras. It is my
understanding that hand-coloring in, say, a 19th-century atlas, is very
likely to have been issued that way by the publisher (often having been
applied by women or children in a factory or other production-line
environment, sometimes using stencils for improved speed and accuracy).

Manon
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