Lexicographical Neighbors of Pressmarks
Literary usage of Pressmarks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Gentleman's Magazine (1864)
"... indicating the place of the volume, have been inscribed, and these pressmarks
have been duly entered, opposite each work, in the list of books. ..."
2. Works, 1608-1631: Of Willoughby by Alfoed, Lincolnshire; President of by John Smith, Edward Arber (1895)
"1 [October] 1622. London, 410. See title at/, 240, and passage fixing the month
in which it was written at p. 264. LÎ..M. pressmarks, C. 33. c. 5 ; looi. a. ..."
3. A Student's Guide to the Manuscripts of the British Museum by Julius Parnell Gilson, British Museum Dept. of Manuscripts (1920)
"Topographically indexed in Index to Charters and Rolls, i., ii., as above.
Church Briefs.—Gift of John Stevenson Salt, 1829. pressmarks, Church Briefs ..."
4. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1892)
"D olim 1290, 'has had a notable history in the way of pressmarks. It was marked MS.
Rawl. D 1283 and afterwards 1290. In Nov. 1891, it figured as MS. Rawl. ..."
5. Publications by Oxford Historical Society, Bostonian Society (1895)
"... which alone gives a fixed notation in the Euripus of changing pressmarks and
the Chaos Regained which has resulted from jumbling one MS. into another. ..."
6. Journal of Theological Studies (1905)
"There are three copies in the British Museum, bearing the pressmarks 676. a 6,
7, 8 (2); 1003. b 5, 6; 218. b 17, 18 (2). ..."
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