Curator (book production)
A custodian or a custos (also leaf guardian, Latin custos , guardian ) is the name for the indication of the initial syllable or the first word of the following page in the lower right corner of the page. It is primarily a help when collating before bookbinding and thus ensures the correct order of the pages.
Like the signature or the number of sheets or pages , it is a help in organizing books.
The custodian was used before industrial book production emerged and is no longer used in modern book printing.
In medieval manuscripts , Kustode also means the designation of the locations using numbers or letters. The first word of the next sheet is written at the bottom of the previous sheet and is also called advertisement . This enabled control over the correct text connection. Complaints are very often found in manuscripts from the Arab-Islamic cultural area.
Starting from Italy in 1470, layer custodians were adopted into book printing. Leaf and side custodians were then fully developed in the 16th century, especially in Reformation prints. The original role of the custodian as an aid to collation has been supplemented by a function that supports the reading process.
literature
- Christopher De Hamel: Scribes and Illuminators. 4th edition. University of Toronto Press, Toronto 1995, ISBN 0-7141-2049-9 , p. 41 ( limited preview of the 1992 edition in Google Book Search).
- Theodore Low De Vinne : The Practice of Typography. Correct Composition . A Treatise on Spelling Abbreviations, the Compounding and Division of Words, the Proper Use of Figures and Numerals, Italic and Capital Letters, Notes, Etc., With Observations on Punctuation and Proof-Reading. 2nd Edition. The Century Company, New York 1902, OCLC 1912809 ( scan of the 1916 edition - Internet Archive ).
- Philip Gaskell: A New Introduction to Bibliography. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1972, OCLC 905632354 , pp. 52-53 (corrected reprints, 1995 ff.).
- Ronald B. McKerrow: An Introduction to Bibliography for Literary Students. Clarendon Press, Oxford 1964, OCLC 320966595 , p. 82 (1st edition, 1927).
- Matt T. Roberts, Don Etherington: Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books. A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Library of Congress, Washington 1982, ISBN 0-8444-0366-0 ( culturalheritage.org ).
Individual evidence
- ^ Karl Klaus Walther (Ed.): Lexicon of book art and bibliophilia . 1st edition. Bibliographisches Institut, Leipzig 1987, ISBN 3-323-00093-5 , p. 260 .