Format of the work 9. Book ornaments

2.1. Name of the author

is at the head of the entry in its authority form. In this respect the name forms of RMSz = Régi Magyarországi Szerzők (Early Hungarian Authors.

Budapest 2008) was accepted. In compliance with Hungarian literary

tra-ditions and requirements, the translators of foreign works into Hungarian

are regarded as authors since it was a habit of Hungarian translators of

old to substantially transform the original works when translating them

into their native idiom. When a work of prose is being treated, the remark

[transl.] is put after the name of the translator-author. Since, however, the

translation of books of the Bible or collections of legal rules requires a strict

adherence to the original on the part of the translator, the translator

can-not be regarded as an author in respect of works of this class. On the

anal-ogy of [transl.] the abbreviations [ed.] (editor) and [red.] (redactor) were

also introduced.

2.2. Title

In case of too long titles it is abbreviated, with the omitted, less important words marked by three dots. The text of Bible citation, verse or motto contain-ing chronostichon is omitted from the title even if these constitute the fi rst words on the title-page. In such cases at the beginning of the description of con-tents there is a reference that Bible citation(s) can be found on the title-page. It is, however not completed with an exact locus. However, the author’s name is repeated in the title even if it is at the head of the title-page (e.g. in genitive).

The description of the title does not refl ect the letter types, diacritic marks or line endings of the respective early printing, because at the end of the volume title-page reproductions help the identifi cation. Punctuation and the usage of capital letters is employed according to present-day orthographic practice.

The abbreviations to be found in the title are generally given in full, on the basis of the contents of the book, in brackets ( ), with the exception of the fol-lowing recurring abbreviations which are not explained every time.: Acad. = Academia or Akadémiai; Akad. = Akadémia; d. = doctor; d. d. d. = dat, donat, dedicat; kegyel. = kegyelméből; l. b. = liber baro; N. T. = Novum Testamen-tum; p. = pater or professzor; p. c. = poeta coronatus; p. l. c. = poeta laureatus Caesareus; p. m. = piae memoriae; r. p. = reverendus pater; Ss. = sacrosancta;

theol. = theologia or theologiae. In the description of university theses if the date is written with contemporary hand, it is within brackets ( ), if the date of the examination is missing, there are three dots within the brackets (…).

If the work was published without a title or it was lost, the title of other editions of the same work or the authority title is given in square brackets [ ]. The various titles of one and the same song in different editions is pre-ceded by a constructed, unifi ed version of the title in square brackets [ ].

Components of the title-page that are no organic parts of the title or imprint (music notations, quotations etc.) are omitted from the title entry.

2.3. Translator, editor

The names of translators, editors etc. are introduced after the title – in spaced setting – only if they are printed on the title page or, in cases of anonymous works, if their names indicated in the text.

2.4. Printing place

The printing place is given in the form and with the grammatical endings

as used in the book. If no reference to the place of publication is to be found

in the work, the established name of the place is given in the language of the print in the form as used at the time of the publication put in square brackets.

2.5. Year of printing

If the date of printing is taken from the title where it was marked by Roman letters or concluded from chronostichon, it can be found enclosed in round brackets ( ) within the imprint. Similarly, round brackets are used if the year is taken from the colophon. If however the year was taken from some other part of the printing, this is indicated in the explanatory notes.

Calendars issued for a given calendar year are listed along with the prod-ucts of the previous year unless the print records another year of publication.

2.6. Name of the printer or of the press

The imprint contains the name of the printing offi ce and the printer in full in the form it can be found in the respective printing. These names stand in the form used in the respective printing but, as a rule, in nominative. It is also a novelty that other elements adding further information e.g. the name of the person covering the costs of edition (impensis), that of the publisher, privileges, etc. are consistently included in the imprint, omitting superfl u-ous expressions.

In case of printers, if deduced, only their family name is given in the en-try unless the fi rst name is also necessary for safer identifi cation. Imprint data elements (place, year, printer) put in square brackets [ ] are explained in the description of contents.

2.7. Collation

In the formula of collation the number of leaves within a quire is consist-ently marked by index numbers. The collation is summarised by giving a) the register of quires constituting the book and b) the aggregate number of the leaves or pages. (From the 3rd volume of RMNy instead of the formerly employed expression „sheet” the more unambiguous expression „quire” is used.) The two sides of the equation formula are connected by the sign of equality.

a) The register of the signatures designates the number of the leaves in the quire by index numbers added to the signatures. From the 3rd volume of RMNy these upper index numbers are consequently added to the signature, e.g.:

A⁸ B⁴–H⁴

Signatures of quires lost or only conjectured are put in square brackets [ ], e.g.:

A⁸ B⁴ [C–G]⁴ H⁴

Square brackets left empty refer to quires without signatures, e.g.:

[ ]⁴ A⁸ B⁴ [C–G]⁴ H⁴

Blank leaves are indicated by index numbers added to those of printed leaves, e.g.:

A³⁺¹ or H²⁺²

If the number of leaves in the subsequent quires alternates in a constant manner, the remark “alternatim” is added to the respective signatures with the indexes of the alternating numbers of leaves, e. g.:

A–Halternatim 8 et 4

There is no comma between the letters of the quire, e.g.:

A⁴ B⁴

If the alphabet is repeated, or there is some notation other than the letters of the alphabet, the elements are separated by comma, e.g.:

A⁴–Z⁴, Aa⁴–Dd⁴ or ¶⁴, A⁴–Z⁴, *⁴

If an illustration or other additional leaf is inserted within the quire, its exact place is given, e.g.:

A⁸ B_1–6, [ ]¹, B_7–8, C⁸–E⁸

If there are several works within the same bibliographical unit (in the entry it is expressed by [1] – [2]) and new signatures begin with a new alphabet in each case, they are separated with a semi-colon, e.g.:

a¹²–g¹²; A¹²–I¹² = 168 + 215 pag.

b) The summarization is generally given in leaves (folios). If, however, the book is paginated, the summarization shows the number of pages with and without pagination, e. g.:

[ ]⁴ A⁸ B⁴ [C–G]⁴ H⁴ = [40] fol. or [ ]⁴ A⁸ B⁴ [C–G]⁴ H⁴ = [8] + 72 pag.

Blank leaves or pages are not included in the summarization, therefore it may occur that the two sides of the ”equation” are not equal, e.g:

[ ]³⁺¹ A⁸ B⁴ [C–G]⁴ H⁴ = [39] fol. or [ ]⁴ A⁸ B⁴ [C–G]⁴ H²⁺² = [8] + 68 pag.

The mistakes or misprints in foliation or pagination are not marked if there

is no mistake in the continuation. If there is a mistake in pagination at the

end of the book, the correct number is given in square brackets [ ].

2.8. Format of the work

The format is expressed by fi gures 2°, 4°, 8° etc., corresponding to the fold-ing of the sheets, irrespective of their actual size. In the case of broadsides, the size of type-area in mm is given instead, e.g. 420 × 310 mm, where the fi rst fi gure hints at hight, the second at width.

2.9. Book ornaments

The ornamentations in the book are indicated by the following symbols:

♪ = musical notations

map. = maps

ill. = illustrations

ins. = arms, printer’s device

orn. = ornament, vignette

init. = initials

tit. calcographicus = copper-plate title-page

fol. tit. color. = the title-page is printed partly in red

color. = not only the title-page, but other parts of the book are also printed partly in red.

The number of maps, illustrations, coats of arms and printers’ devices is always given, unless their number surpasses ten. In this case the number is substituted by the abbreviation „mult.”.

Ornaments (whether head-piece, tail-piece or initial) made up from print-ers’ fl owers are not considered as ornaments. Therefore framed initial let-ters as a rule are not taken for decorated initials, unless they are one-piece woodcuts with an empty place for inserting a letter (so-called ”totumfacts”).

3. Bibliographical references

The bibliographical references contain the most valuable and reliable

bib li ographical descriptions of the given publication.

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