[DCRM-L] Alternating leaf counts in 12mo book

Jessie Sherwood jcsherwood at law.berkeley.edu
Fri Sep 13 15:39:55 MDT 2019


I use A-D⁸·⁴ (see,
http://www.loc.gov/cds/desktop/documents/DCRMBex/DCRMBex_31_ex31.pdf).

On Fri, 13 Sep 2019 at 14:08, Matthew C. Haugen <matthew.haugen at columbia.edu>
wrote:

> Hi Christine,
>
> I found the following at: https://manual.stcv.be/p/Collation_Formula
>
> Gatherings with regularly alternating numbers of folios can be amalgamated
>> into a series formula, where the two numbers are given in superscript and
>> separated by a forward slash. If there is an odd number of gatherings, the
>> final gathering, regular or not, is mentioned separately. The first number
>> in superscript always corresponds to the number of folios from the first
>> gathering of the series, the second number always corresponds to the number
>> of leaves from the last gathering of the series.
>
>
>
> *Examples*
>
> A4 B8 C4 D8 E4 F8 becomes A-F4/8
>
> A8 B4 C8 D4 E8 F4 G8 becomes A-F8/4 G8
>
> I hope that helps!
>
>
> Matt
>
> On Fri, Sep 13, 2019 at 4:29 PM Christine Bone <
> Christine.Bone at umanitoba.ca> wrote:
>
>> Hello DCRM-L.
>>
>>
>>
>> I have a 12mo book where the leaf counts alternate from one gathering to
>> the next: A⁸B⁴C⁸D⁴ and so on.
>>
>> Is there a shorthand to reflect this, or do I need to list them all
>> individually?
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks!
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> Christine Bone | Cataloguing and Metadata Librarian | University of
>> Manitoba Libraries | 204.474.7853 | christine.bone at umanitoba.ca
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>
>
> --
> Matthew C. Haugen
> Rare Book Cataloger | Columbia University Libraries
> matthew.haugen at columbia.edu | 212-851-2451 | he/him/his
>


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