This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...and which will presently be described, has been adopted for all sections of MSS. in the current classification. Many MSS. are in the form of rolls or are written on palm-leaves, and consequently have to be enclosed in boxes. Many of these boxes, if placed on ordinary shelves with the narrow ends in front, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1888 edition. Excerpt: ...and which will presently be described, has been adopted for all sections of MSS. in the current classification. Many MSS. are in the form of rolls or are written on palm-leaves, and consequently have to be enclosed in boxes. Many of these boxes, if placed on ordinary shelves with the narrow ends in front, project; or, if placed with the long ends vertically, topple over whenever the MSS. on either side of them are disturbed--while, if they are arranged with the long ends horizontal in front, either much loss of space ensues, or else, (if they are placed behind or on top of each other) much possibility of disarrangement. To meet this difficulty they are now stored with the narrow ends in front in cases with specially deep shelves. They are sized and referenced in the ordinary way but with the additional symbol (R) which shows that they are to be found and replaced in the cases appropriated to Rolls. Size-division of printed books. Books in the classified system were before 1882, and still are, arranged on the shelves and referenced on the following principles: --The class of the volume is denoted by a number--say 248 ( = Domestic economy). This is followed by a letter--say e--denoting its height. This again is followed by another number--say 115--denoting the place of the volume among other volumes of that height in that class. The full reference of the volume (entered inside it, outside it, in the handlist, and in the catalogues, and commonly called its 'pressmark') is then 248. e. 115. If the entire class has to be shifted to another part of the library, no references have to be changed, whereas, if the volumes were referenced with the numbers of particular shelves and of their places on such shelves, whenever a row of books required to be...
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