Beinecke Cataloging Manual - Italian Festivals

Scope |  Size |  Marking |  Classification |  Subjects

Scope
The Italian Festivals Collection was acquired over a four year period. It consists of 247 titles dating from 1541 to 1862. The general cataloging policies for pre-1800 monographs are followed. This is a closed collection; however, policies for notes and access points are followed for other festival books.

Size

Octavo:

up to 25 cm. high

up to 23 cm. wide

Quarto:

between 26 and 37 cm. high

over 23 and up to 31 cm. wide

Folios:

over 37 cm. high

over 31 cm. wide

Marking

1. Mark on Yale bookplate when there is one, generally in the upper left corner.
2. Mark on verso of last page, lower right hand corner, when 1 or 2 don't apply. The lower left hand corner is the alternate location when the lower right hand corner is unusable.
3. If the last page is unmarkable (e.g. too dark or shiny or filled with text or illustrations), mark the verso of the first usable page from the end

Classification

Octavo	‡b beingen ‡h Italian Festivals ‡i 8
Quarto	‡b beingen ‡h Italian Festivals ‡i +3
Folio	‡b beingen ‡h Italian Festivals ‡i Folio 2

Notes
Provide a summary note describing the festival (e.g. Festival in Ferrara for the occasion of the marriage of Francis Stephen, Duke of Lorraine, and Maria Theresa, Archduchess of Austria, held in the presence of Count Ludwig Khevenhüller)

Citations
Cite the following whenever appropriate:

Adams, Herbert Mayow.
Catalogue of books printed on the continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge libraries.
London: Cambridge University Press, 1967. 2 vols.

CITE AS: Adams

Harvard College Library. Dept. of Printing and Graphic Arts.
Catalogue of books and manuscripts. Compiled by Ruth Mortimer under the supervision of Philip Hofer and
William A. Jackson. Cambridge: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 1964-74,
pt. 2. Italian 16th century books (2 v.).

CITE AS: Mortimer, R.  Italian 16th cent.

Watanabe-O'Kelly, Helen.
Festivals and ceremonies: a bibliography of works relating to court, civic and religious festivals in Europe 1500-1800
Helen Watanabe-O'Kelly and Anne Simon. London: Mansell, 2000.

CITE AS: Watanabe-O'Kelly & Simon.  Festivals and ceremonies

Example:

510

4

‡a Watanabe-O'Kelly & Simon.  Festivals and ceremonies, ‡c 718

Subject, genre, and added tracings

• Personal name subject headings with suitable subdivisions for the honoree
  (i.e. ‡a Elizabeth, ‡c of France, Queen, consort of Philip IV, King of Spain ‡d 1602-1644 ‡x Death and burial).
• Topical and geographic subject headings as appropriate
• The Genre heading Festival books subdivided geographically and chronologically, making an additional tracing if place and/or date of publication differs from place and/or date of event
• Additional genre headings if necessary.
• Make added name entries for illustrators, engravers, etc. as well as for printers, publishers and booksellers.
• Make appropriate copy specific notes and local tracings for provenance.

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Last revised: 16 July 2007
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