[DCRM-L] French imprint help

Christine DeZelar-Tiedman dezel002 at umn.edu
Mon Oct 14 13:02:40 MDT 2019


Thank you! I was thinking it was something along those lines.

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 1:54 PM Jessica Grzegorski <grzegorskij at newberry.org>
wrote:

> Hi Christine,
>
> I believe "jouxte" means "conforms to" in this case. It's a term borrowed
> from early French legalese. For a detailed definition and etymology see
> this entry from CNRTL (Centre national de ressources textuelles et
> lexicales), especially "*jouxte la copie imprimée en tel lieu *(Fur.),
> seul emploi demeuré en usage dans la langue des imprimeurs et de la
> procédure": https://www.cnrtl.fr/definition/jouxte
>
> The gist of the phrase is that the copy in hand is an exemplar of an
> edition that conforms to the edition printed in Lyon, but it was not itself
> necessarily printed in Lyon.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Jessica
>
> *Jessica Grzegorski*
> *Principal Cataloging Librarian*
> Newberry Library
> 60 W. Walton Street, Chicago, IL 60610
> www.newberry.org
>
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> DeZelar-Tiedman <dezel002 at umn.edu>
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> *Subject:* [DCRM-L] French imprint help
>
> I'm cataloging some 17th-century French pamphlets, and a few have imprint
> statements such as "Iouxte la coppie imprimeìe aÌ Paris" and
> "Iouxte l'exemplaire imprimeì aÌ Lyon". My French is pretty minimal; what
> would "adjoins" (Jouxte) mean in this context?
>
> --
> Christine DeZelar-Tiedman
> Metadata and Emerging Technologies Librarian
> University of Minnesota Libraries
> 160 Wilson Library
> 309 19th Ave. S.
> Minneapolis, MN 55455
> (612) 625-0381
> dezel002 at umn.edu
>
> pronouns: she/her/hers
>
>
>
>

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Christine DeZelar-Tiedman
Metadata and Emerging Technologies Librarian
University of Minnesota Libraries
160 Wilson Library
309 19th Ave. S.
Minneapolis, MN 55455
(612) 625-0381
dezel002 at umn.edu

pronouns: she/her/hers
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