Search fields for the Bindings Image Collection

This article enumerates the various search terms available for use in the LUNA Bindings image collection. For more information please see Bindings image collection.

Summary information

Image caption: a brief description of the photo, including call number

General description: a brief description of the binding

Binder: a named binder or bindery (when known)

Country/Style: a country of origin (or in some cases a geographically or nationally distinct style of binding)

Period: a date for the binding (in some cases indicated as a "ca." date, an "early", "mid", or "late" century, or a full century)

Bibliographical information

Call number: the designated shelf location for the bound volume

Provenance: a brief description of former owners, typically derived from the Hamnet bibliographic record (when available)

Author: an author's name for the first, second, or third item bound in (no more than the first three items in a Sammelband are described here)

Title: a title for the first, second, or third item bound in

Created/published: a place, publisher or creator name, and date for the first, second, or third item bound in

Hamnet URL: a hyperlink to the full online bibliographic description (when available)

Binding description

Dimensions: binding size in millimeters (height by width by thickness)

Covering material: a brief description of the material covering the boards and spine

Sewing: a brief description of the sewing structure of the text block and binding

Headbands: a brief description of the spine headbands and endbands

Edge treatment: a brief description of gilding, gauffering, fore-edge painting, etc. that might appear on the edges of the text block

End papers: a brief description of the paper, including identification of marbling techniques

Closures: a brief description of the presence (or evidence of former) clasps, ties, ribbons, etc.

Decorative description: a narrative description of significant details about the tooling, gilding, and other decorative elements present on the binding.

Technical description: a narrative description of significant structural details. Typically present in entries based on the Fine and Historic Bookbindings catalog.

Other details: may include biographical details, quotations from cited research, etc.

Binding terms (RBMS): a controlled vocabulary heading from Binding Terms: A Thesaurus for Use in Rare Book and Special Collections Cataloging

Literature: brief reference to published descriptions or research into the binding (see bibliography for full citations)