[DCRM-L] signature question

[Jennifer Dunlap]

Thanks Richard!

On Fri, Jan 3, 2020 at 10:01 AM Noble, Richard <richard_noble at brown.edu>
wrote:

> With no precise rule to cite--this being a problem peculiar to our
> cataloging environment--I'd say the double bracketing is much to be
> preferred. With only single brackets one would have to infer that the
> gathering is signed, since the whole string '[par.]' (not just 'par.')
> represents, by our system, the paragraph symbol as a printed signature.
> Double bracketing is stylistically ugly, but there's nothing else for it.
> Even so it would be a good idea to include the note, to reassure a reader
> that the formula is meant to be interpreted thus; but the formula should be
> able to stand alone without the note.
>
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>
>
> On Thu, Jan 2, 2020 at 4:05 PM Jennifer Dunlap <jrdunlap7 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I'm working on a signature statement and have encountered something I've
>> never run into before: an unsigned gathering, which can be inferred as
>> [par.] (see below). My gut tells me to use double square brackets, but I
>> could find no examples of this situation in Bowers, Gaskell, DCRM-B, or in
>> the DCRM-L archives.  I am hoping the collective wisdom may have some best
>> practices guidance.
>>
>> Gathering 1 is unsigned, gatherings 2 and 3 are signed 2 ⁋
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%81%8B> and 3 ⁋
>> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E2%81%8B>. Obviously we can infer the
>> first gathering as [par.]. Would it be appropriate in this instance to use
>> a second set of square brackets to designate the first gathering as
>> unsigned:
>>
>> Signatures: [[par.]]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ 3[par.]² A-2B⁴ 2C⁶.
>>
>>
>> Or to use a single set of brackets and add a note that the first
>> gathering is unsigned?
>>
>>
>> Signatures: [par.]⁴ 2[par.]⁴ 3[par.]² ... ; gathering [par.] is
>> unsigned.   (alternatively:  first gathering unsigned).
>>
>>
>> The book in question is:
>> Alcazar y Zuñiga, Melchor de. *Arte de esquadronar, y exercicios de la
>> infanteria* (1703)
>>
>>
>> Thanks in advance,
>>
>> Jennifer
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> *Jennifer Dunlap*
>>
>> Rare Book Cataloger
>>
>> Houghton Library, Harvard University
>>
>> Cambridge, MA 02138
>>
>> 617.998.5219
>>
>> jennifer_dunlap at harvard.edu
>>
>>
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