RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Provenance Evidence Terms

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Markings

: Physical amendments (Gathering term; do not assign)

: SN: Gathering term; do not use; index under a narrower term.

Markings

. SN: Use for remarks, notes, highlighting or commentary
. (generally in manuscript) on the text or on the history or
. provenance of the material.

.. Authors' annotations

.. Dates

.. SN: Use for evidence dating the acquisition or period of
.. ownership.

... Reading dates

.. Fists

.. SN: Use for previous owners' indications drawing attention to text.

.. Genealogical notes

.. Marginalia

.. Prices

.. SN: Use for prices in materials indicating purchase cost
.. information by a previous owner or relating to secondary
.. selling, e.g., second-hand dealer prices, auction prices.

.. Underscoring

.. HN: UF added 6/2008.

. Autographs

.. Authors' autographs

. Codes

. SN: Use for booksellers' or owners' codes, ciphers, price codes.

. Devices

. SN: Use for evidence of any physical form which uses a family
. or personal emblem.

. Edge-marks

.. Branded edges

. Illegible markings

. Initials

.. Initials combined with printed signatures

.. SN: Use for evidence of provenance consisting of a combination
.. of manuscript initials and printed signature marks, e.g.,
.. Thomas Jefferson's additions of the letter "T" preceding signature mark "I" or "J" following signature mark "T".

.. Stencilled initials

. Inscriptions

.. Authors' inscriptions

... Authors' presentation inscriptions

.. Presentation inscriptions

... Authors' presentation inscriptions

. Monograms

.. Stencilled monograms

. Mottoes

. Numbers

. SN: Use for marks of provenance which use numerical
. designations with or without other codes.

.. Accession numbers