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I want to say that the stone is the original and the rubbing is a reproduction.  But then I think: we don’t consider woodcuts to be reproductions of the wood blocks.  

What would Mary do?

Jon Jablonski
Director, Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory
Spatial Data Librarian, Map & Imagery Lab
UCSB Library
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> On Jul 21, 2017, at 5:50 AM, Angela R Cope <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
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> Exactly. And to add to the difficulty, I don't really know when my rubbing was made. So, can I copy catalog on LC's record? My map has many similarities in terms of marks but a few unique elements that ... make me think it was done at a different time than that held at LC. Yale has one too. It's the Yi ji tu and one other (I actually have two of them I'm trying to figure out).
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> https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71005080/ <https://www.loc.gov/item/gm71005080/>
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> 
> Angie
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> From: Maps-L: Map Librarians, etc. <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>> on behalf of Joel Kovarsky <[log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>>
> Sent: Friday, July 21, 2017 6:26 AM
> To: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [MAPS-L] Cataloging help - manuscript reproduction?
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> Angie,
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> I cannot speak for how the catalogers will see this, but might it be hard to assert that it is one of a kind?
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> The process is not so unusual: https://www.loc.gov/maps/?dates=1100-1199 <https://www.loc.gov/maps/?dates=1100-1199>and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_rubbing <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_rubbing> .
>  <https://www.loc.gov/maps/?dates=1100-1199>	
> Search results from Map, 1100 to 1199 - Library of Congress <https://www.loc.gov/maps/?dates=1100-1199>
> www.loc.gov <http://www.loc.gov/>
> Yu ji tu. 禹迹图. Stone rubbing dated 1903? One of the earliest stone maps, it consists of 5,110 grids, each grid is ...
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>  <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_rubbing>	
> Stone rubbing - Wikipedia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_rubbing>
> en.wikipedia.org <http://en.wikipedia.org/>
> Stone rubbing is the practice of creating an image of surface features of a stone on paper. The image records features such as natural textures, inscribed patterns or ...
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>       Joel
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> On 7/21/17 7:19 AM, Angela R Cope wrote:
>> Hi have a map that is a rubbing from a stone. So, it's a one of a kind, hand done rubbing but a reproduction of a map on stone. 
>> 
>> So is it a manuscript or is the rubbing method simply the printing process?
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>> Help.
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>> Angie