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Proposed Term:  Registers

Thesaurus:  Binding terms

Submitted by: Alvan Bregman

Term record as found in AAT [1](mandatory): 

(record type: concept)

registers (partial documents) (<document genres by form: partial documents>, <document genres by form>, ... Visual and Verbal Communication)

Note: Lists of the signatures of which books are compiled, often printed at the end of early printed books, particularly those printed in Italy, to asssist the binder in assembling and collating complete copies.

Term record as found in LCSH [2](mandatory):

150  Registers (Printing)

450  Registers (in early printed books) Ç‚w nne

550  Signatures (Printing) Ç‚w g

Term record as found in GMGPC [3](mandatory):X

Term record as found in GSAFD [4](mandatory):X

Term record as found in MeSH [5](mandatory):X

Term record as found in MIM [6](mandatory):X

Term record as found in the Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition [7](mandatory):

II. 7.   a. A bookmark. [So med.L. registrum.]

    b. An index; a table of contents. rare.

    c. The series of signatures in a printed book; the list of these at the end of early printed books.

Term record as found in Webster’s 3rd New International Dictionary of the English Language (mandatory):

3  : a list of signatures printed in some early books for the guidance of the binder

Term as found in Random House Unabridged Dictionary, 2nd edition (optional):

Term as found in source/hierarchical displays/definitions, other sources, &c.:

"In the early days of printing the printer would sometimes provide,

usually on the last page just above the colophon but occasionally on a

separate leaf, a list of the signature-letters and a note of the

composition of the gatherings in the book, for the guidance of the

binder.  This list is known as the 'register'." Carter & Barker: ABC for  Book Collectors, 8th ed

Hierarchy:  

Proposed SN: Use for lists of signatures printed in some early books as instructions for the binder

UF: 

Registrum

Registro

Warrant (if necessary):

 Register:... 4. a list of signatures appearing at the end of early printed books as a guide to the binder. They were mostly used in Italy c. 1470-1600, the first being in the "Epistolae Hieronymi", printed by Sixtus Riessinger, Rome, 1470, though examples do occur in English books. The list was usually headed registrum folorium or registrum chartarum, and the first word of each signature would be given as an alternative to a letter.

Glaister, Geoffrey A. Encyclopedia of the Book. 2d. ed. New Castle, DL.: Oak Knoll Press, 1996.

BT: Binders' instructions

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AAT [Getty’s Art & Architecture Thesaurus]

GMGPC [Library of Congress’s Thesaurus for Graphic Materials]

GSAFD [Guidelines on Subject Access to Individual Works of Fiction, Drama, etc. (2nd ed.)]

LCSH [Library of Congress’s Subject Headings]

MeSH [National Library of Medicine’s Medical Subject Headings]

MIM [Library of Congress’s The Moving Image Genre-form Guide]