Volvelles and sammelbands
November 15, 2017 10:27 PM Subscribe
A simple list of charming terms from libraries/archives. [special appearances by MeFi's Own jessamyn]
I knew that one from the SF community.
posted by Chrysostom at 11:04 PM on November 15, 2017
posted by Chrysostom at 11:04 PM on November 15, 2017
"Inherent Vice" is a thing! I thought it was just a book!
posted by freebird at 11:36 PM on November 15, 2017
posted by freebird at 11:36 PM on November 15, 2017
Xylotheque: A wood library — a special form of herbarium that consists of a collection of authenticated wood specimens.
Also, a place where one can consume alcohol and dance to mallet-struck percussion instruments.
posted by tenderly at 2:19 AM on November 16, 2017 [3 favorites]
Also, a place where one can consume alcohol and dance to mallet-struck percussion instruments.
posted by tenderly at 2:19 AM on November 16, 2017 [3 favorites]
It's a brand name but I have always been very fond of the Harry Potter-esque Tattle Tape (it's the magnetic tape we affix inside books that causes the beeping if you go through the gates without it being desensitised; slowly being replaced by RFID security instead - we still have mag gates at my libraries so we still tattle tape stuff as well as RFID tags)
posted by halcyonday at 2:21 AM on November 16, 2017 [4 favorites]
posted by halcyonday at 2:21 AM on November 16, 2017 [4 favorites]
Whyyyyyyy isn't this list in alphabetical order
posted by CheeseLouise at 5:20 AM on November 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by CheeseLouise at 5:20 AM on November 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
For many more charming and delightful terms, I refer you to Bookbinding and the Conservation of books : A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology, by Matt T. Roberts and Don Etherington, the Getty Vocabularies, and John Carter's classic, ABC for Book Collectors.
posted by octobersurprise at 5:55 AM on November 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by octobersurprise at 5:55 AM on November 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
Anyway, my favorite term is "florilegium," which is somewhat similar to a sammelband.
posted by octobersurprise at 6:10 AM on November 16, 2017
posted by octobersurprise at 6:10 AM on November 16, 2017
Not quite the same topic, but similar--some of my favorite vocabulary terms I picked up in graduate school came from biblical textual criticism.
parablepsis--A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it. Parablepsis usually happens because there is a repeated word, and the scribe either skips ahead to the second instance of the word, resulting in a missing section (haplography) or the scribe accidentally returns to the first instance of the word, repeating the section between the two identical words (dittography).
The other one that stuck with me is palimpsest, a manuscript page where the text was scraped or washed off and then reused. With modern imaging technology, sometimes the original writing can be recovered.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 9:24 AM on November 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
parablepsis--A circumstance in which a scribe miscopies text due to inadvertently looking to the side while copying, or accidentally skips over some of it. Parablepsis usually happens because there is a repeated word, and the scribe either skips ahead to the second instance of the word, resulting in a missing section (haplography) or the scribe accidentally returns to the first instance of the word, repeating the section between the two identical words (dittography).
The other one that stuck with me is palimpsest, a manuscript page where the text was scraped or washed off and then reused. With modern imaging technology, sometimes the original writing can be recovered.
posted by Pater Aletheias at 9:24 AM on November 16, 2017 [1 favorite]
How many more dogs can I adopt and give fun library names to? Come, little wimmelbilderbuch!
posted by stillmoving at 9:40 AM on November 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
posted by stillmoving at 9:40 AM on November 16, 2017 [2 favorites]
I used to have a blog called Florilegium.
posted by Chrysostom at 9:53 AM on November 16, 2017
posted by Chrysostom at 9:53 AM on November 16, 2017
Re volvelle: I used to collect movable books so was interested in this definition. Generally speaking, volvelles revolve around grommets or posts, with grommets more common. So I'm not impressed with their definition.
Also, re palimpsest: they didn't mention the early scraping of sheepskin to reuse, which is how the traces of previous use became evident. It's not that their definition is wrong, just incomplete.
Otherwise, I enjoyed the list and even learned a couple of new words.
posted by MovableBookLady at 10:18 AM on November 16, 2017
Also, re palimpsest: they didn't mention the early scraping of sheepskin to reuse, which is how the traces of previous use became evident. It's not that their definition is wrong, just incomplete.
Otherwise, I enjoyed the list and even learned a couple of new words.
posted by MovableBookLady at 10:18 AM on November 16, 2017
I am currently studying to become an archival assistant in Germany and have become extremely familiar with the Respect des fonds (or Provenienzprinzip, as it is called here)! Can anyone confirm that English-speaking archivists use the French phrase, or is there an English word/phrase that is more common?
posted by jeudi at 12:28 PM on November 16, 2017
posted by jeudi at 12:28 PM on November 16, 2017
I am currently studying to become an archival assistant in Germany and have become extremely familiar with the Respect des fonds (or Provenienzprinzip, as it is called here)! Can anyone confirm that English-speaking archivists use the French phrase, or is there an English word/phrase that is more common?
I can't speak for American or British archivists, but in Canada we do use the phrase "respect des fonds". Too bad the definition presented in this (otherwise entertaining and informative) list is wrong, or at best incomplete. The principle does not "propose" keeping records together based on their creating entity - the records must be kept together.
posted by e-man at 8:44 PM on November 16, 2017
I can't speak for American or British archivists, but in Canada we do use the phrase "respect des fonds". Too bad the definition presented in this (otherwise entertaining and informative) list is wrong, or at best incomplete. The principle does not "propose" keeping records together based on their creating entity - the records must be kept together.
posted by e-man at 8:44 PM on November 16, 2017
Yes, we learn the concept and use the phrase in Louisiana. It's in textbooks so I would assume it's nationwide.
posted by CheeseLouise at 4:18 AM on November 17, 2017
posted by CheeseLouise at 4:18 AM on November 17, 2017
Also special appearance by MeFi's Horace Rumpole
posted by Horace Rumpole at 3:51 PM on November 17, 2017 [1 favorite]
posted by Horace Rumpole at 3:51 PM on November 17, 2017 [1 favorite]
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