RBMS Controlled Vocabularies: Provenance Evidence Terms

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: Classes of owners (Gathering term; do not assign)

:     SN: Gathering term; do not use; index under a narrower term.

Association copies

. Authors' copies

.     SN: Use for copies of an
. author's work known or thought to have been part of that author's
. personal library or used by that author, not simply
. presented or inscribed by the author.

. Booksellers' copies

.     SN: Use for copies owned by booksellers or displaying evidence
. of second-hand booksales, e.g., dealer's ms. notes.

. Dedicatees' copies

. Donors' copies

.     SN: Use for materials actually owned and then donated by an
. individual or institution.

. Illustrators' copies

. Library copies

.     SN: Use for copies owned by institutions or formal private
. libraries as opposed to personal collections.

.. Subscription library copies

..     HN: Approved 1/2008

..     SN: Use for copies owned or formerly owned by subscription
.. libraries.

. Printers' copies

. Publishers' copies

. Translators' copies

.     SN: Use for copies of a work owned or used by a translator of
. that work.

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