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)