We use the media rendition media view field and “recto” and “verso” for manuscript leaves, or other detached pages from books. “Obverse” and “reverse” are the terms used for coins.

 

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Subject: TMS records for recto/verso works?

 

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Hi folks!

 

How does your institution deal with objects that have different "works of art" on each side? A page from a sketchbook that has a horse on one side and a landscape of Rome on the other? 

 

Intellectual children?

Components?

Single record with multiple titles?

 

If intellectual children or components, how do you number them?

 

a & b?

r & v?

Do you spell out xxx.x Recto and xxx.x Verso?

 

What do you do when there are two different sketches on the same side?

 

Thanks muchly,

 

Fatima

 

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Fatima Mahdi

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