[DCRM-L] signature statement question

[Deborah J. Leslie]

It involves carefully and precisely measuring the position of chainlines relative to the page, examination of watermarks, &c. The evidence provided by looking at a single copy has slim authority, except in the negative sense of identifying completely different paper. These days I avoid making conjectures about a sheet split between gatherings unless I see it in a bibliography.

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Thanks Deborah -- I was afraid my question had been lost to the void forever. This makes sense. I wonder, what would that proof look like, showing the first and last gatherings are from the same sheet, if you had access to multiple copies to compare?

On Wed, Sep 22, 2021 at 4:15 PM Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu<mailto:DJLeslie at folger.edu>> wrote:
Catching up on my email backlog and saw this query.

There are many, many cases where one can strongly suspect that the preliminary and final gatherings are from the same sheet, but shouldn't be recorded unless you have proof, normally of the kind produced by bibliographical analysis of multiple copies.

In cases of odd number of leaves in a gathering, assume the next highest even number and qualify as appropriate. You did this right for gathering A, but for Q, assume 10 and adjust.

Signatures: A⁴ (-A4) B-P¹² Q¹0 (-Q10) [$5 (-A3, Q5) signed]


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Hello all,

Seems like it's been a while since we've had a good signature statement question - and I've got one. Is the following statement sufficient and correct, or is there a way to convey that the 3 leaves of gathering A and the nine leaves of gathering Q are very likely from the same sheet?

Signatures: A⁴ (-A4) B-P¹² Q¹² (-Q10, Q11, Q12) [$5 (-A3, Q5) signed]

Thanks!

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Noah Sheola
Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
John J. Burns Library
Boston College


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Noah Sheola
Special Collections Cataloging Librarian
John J. Burns Library
Boston College
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