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Manuscripts. Rare and remarkable works

Scope Note: Class here works about manuscripts and rare books. For documents themselves, see common auxiliaries of form (0.032) and (0.068) (Table 1d)

⇨ (0.032) Handwritten documents (autograph, holograph copies). Manuscripts. Pictorial documents (drawings, paintings)

⇨ (0.068) Rare documents. Unique documents. Sole extant copies. Unica

090.1

Bibliophily. Bibliomania   Book collectors and collections

⇨ 028.01 Taste, passion for reading

⇨ 655.425 Antiquarian bookselling. Second-hand bookselling

091

Manuscripts

⇨ (0.032) Handwritten documents (autograph, holograph copies). Manuscripts. Pictorial documents (drawings, paintings)

⇨ 75.05 Applications of painting

091.0

Technical questions relating to manuscripts

091.01

Script. Writing of manuscripts

⇨ 003 Writing systems and scripts

⇨ 003.072 Palaeography

⇨ 930.2 Methodology of history. Ancillary historical sciences

091.07

Facsimiles   Reproduction of manuscripts by chromolithography, photography and other processes

⇨ 655.2 Graphic reproduction processes. Production of printing surfaces. Typesetting, composing

⇨ 774 Photomechanical processes generally

⇨ 776 Photolithography. Photographic production of planographic plates

091.1

Form of manuscript

091.11

Tablets. Single leaves

091.12

Double, multiple leaves   Diptychs. Triptychs. Polyptychs. Palm leaf books

091.13

Rolls. Volumina

091.14

Codices. Volumes. Books with folded leaves

091.2

Manuscripts according to writing surface   On papyrus, parchment, paper

⇨ 003.51 Writing surfaces

091.3

Various kinds of manuscript

091.31

Manuscript decoration   Manuscripts with miniatures. Illuminated manuscripts

⇨ 096 Books remarkable for their illustrations or for materials used

⇨ 75.05 Applications of painting

091.33

Palimpsests. Re-used manuscripts

091.5

Autographs. Autography   Handwritten texts. Holographs. Signatures

⇨ 099.3 Works with autograph dedication

091.6

Printed works with manuscript notes by celebrated authors (other than the authors of the works)

092

Xylographic books   Block books (books printed from carved wooden blocks)

093

Incunabula

Scope Note: Works printed in Europe before 1500: originals; facsimiles of them; studies of them

094

Other precious, remarkable or rare printed works

094.1

Works of great rarity but later than incunabula   Masterpieces of typography. Works from the celebrated great presses. Limited editions

⇨ 099.4 Works which have become rare through adventitious circumstances

094.2

Unique copies. Sole extant copies. Unica

⇨ (0.068) Rare documents. Unique documents. Sole extant copies. Unica

094.3

Fine editions   De luxe editions. Collectors’, book-lovers’ editions

⇨ (0.027.6) De luxe editions. Fine editions. Collectors’, book-lovers’ editions

094.4

First editions. Editiones principes

⇨ (0.044) First (published) editions. Editiones principes

094.5

Less valuable old books

095

Books remarkable for their binding

096

Books remarkable for their illustrations or for materials used

096.1

Rare illustrated books

⇨ 084 Pictorial material

096.2

Books of precious materials   On vellum, silk, bark. With silver, gold. With woven, carved, engraved text

097

Marks of ownership or origin   Ex libris. Bookplates. Monograms, seals

098

Various kinds of work remarkable for intrinsic characteristics

098.1

Prohibited books   Works condemned or banned by temporal or spiritual powers. Suppressed, censored works. Library ‘infernos’ (collections not considered suitable for open display). Clandestine, secret, underground literature

⇨ 070.18 Newspapers from unknown presses and publishers

⇨ 82-993 Licentious, salacious, titillating literature. Erotica. Pornography

098.11

Prohibited by religious authorities   Index librorum prohibitorum

⇨ 27-428.4 Prohibitions in Christianity

098.12

Prohibited by civil authorities

⇨ 351.751.5 Censorship. Imprimatur. Permission to publish

098.3

Lost works. Imaginary, suppositious and projected works. Works announced but never published

098.5

Works with key

Scope Note: With detailed correspondence to real persons, events. Romans à clef

099

Other kinds of work, remarkable for extrinsic characteristics. Curiosa

099.1

Works of exceptional format   Outsize, giant, mammoth. Minute, dwarf, microscopic. Micrographic editions

⇨ (0.021) Documents according to scope and size

099.2

Works which have fetched high prices

099.3

Works with autograph dedication

⇨ 091.5 Autographs. Autography

099.4

Works which have become rare through adventitious circumstances   Books not on the market. Out-of-print editions

⇨ 094.1 Works of great rarity but later than incunabula

099.5

Works of value because of their provenance   Books formerly belonging to historic, royal, literary personages, great collections