[DCRM-L] [External]- Added manuscript illustrations which aren't marginal

[Alice Hanes]

Hello Andrea,
Good question!  One of my favorite examples of this phenomenon in our collection is a calculus book<http://h92010.eos-intl.net/H92010/OPAC/Details/Record.aspx?BibCode=103699199> containing the idle doodles of a 19th century student in the margins and on the endpapers.  In this case, we followed LC advice to add subheadings "Library--Marginal notes<https://lccn.loc.gov/sh85081056>" (which include "scribbles" as well as "editorial comments") to the name of the individual person.  Apparently, the LC heading "Marginal illustrations<https://lccn.loc.gov/sh2009003233>" is reserved for medieval illuminated manuscripts.  We also added RBMS terms for provenance, "Marginalia" and "Markings."  Still, this seemed inadequate to truly capture the drawings; so we scanned and attached some images, deeming the picture worth the proverbial thousand words.  I look forward to other responses on this topic.

Alice H. Hanes
Technical Services Librarian
Hagley Museum and Library
298 Buck Road East
Wilmington, DE 19807-0630
(302) 658-2400 x234
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Greetings, fellow catalogers, sometimes in music or bound sheet music, I run across noteworthy pencil or ink illustrations on blank pages. Does anyone have a favorite genre term for illustrations like this, as distinguishable from textual annotations? I’ve never thought to separate these out before, but after inquiries from a researcher, am wondering if it might not be a bad idea.

Thoughts/suggestions?

Grateful thanks, andrea

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Andrea Cawelti (Ms.)
Ward Music Cataloger
Houghton Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA  02138

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