{"id":231,"date":"2010-05-28T08:15:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-28T13:15:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nonsolusblog.wordpress.com\/?p=231"},"modified":"2010-05-28T08:15:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-28T13:15:16","slug":"kierkegaard-sammelbande-a-cataloging-problem-solved","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/2010\/05\/28\/kierkegaard-sammelbande-a-cataloging-problem-solved\/","title":{"rendered":"Kierkegaard Sammelb\u00e4nde: A Cataloging Problem, Solved"},"content":{"rendered":"

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At the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s monthly No. 44 Society meetings, it is a tradition to share a book from the RBML vault that is related to the historical events of the day.\u00a0 On May 5th, a discovery was made while retrieving a first edition of Soren Kierkegaard’s Forord (1844) for the anniversary of the Danish philosopher’s birth in 1813.<\/p>\n

Although this copy of Forord<\/em><\/a> was cataloged as a single item, the volume contained three other first editions from Kierkegaard\u2019s pseudonymous \u201cfirst authorship\u201d period, including Af en endnu levendes papirer<\/em><\/a> (1838), Gjentagelsen: et fors\u00f8g i den experimenterende psychologi<\/em><\/a> (1843) and Philosophiske smuler, eller, En smule philosophi<\/em><\/a> (1844).<\/p>\n

This discovery brings up an important problem facing our online catalog users.\u00a0 When card catalog records were converted to electronic records in past years, volumes containing more than one work tended to only have online catalog access to the first work in that volume.\u00a0 These collections of separately published works that have been bound together at a later time are known by the German term Sammelb\u00e4nde (sg. Sammelband) or more colloquially as \u201cbound-withs.\u201d\u00a0 Whenever our rare book catalogers come across these copies in our vault, we create new cataloging records with access to all the works in the volume.<\/p>\n

The early works of Kierkegaard were printed in small, non-commercial runs by Luno Biancos Bogtrykkeri and published by the firm of C.A. Reitzel.\u00a0 It is impressive then that the University of Illinois Rare Book and Manuscript Library should have such a large collection of Kierkegaard\u2019s works in first editions.\u00a0 As the books were being cataloged, it emerged that most, if not all, of our rare Kierkegaard materials came from an unidentified book dealer or individual named Chislett and were purchased by the library on 22 November 1951.\u00a0 One of our more impressive holdings is the first edition of Af en endnu levendes papirer<\/em> (From the papers of one still living), which is a review of Hans Christian Anderson\u2019s novel, Kun en spillemand<\/em> (Only a fiddler) and is Kierkegaard\u2019s first published work.\u00a0 The library also holds a copy of Kierkegaard\u2019s thesis, Om begrebet ironi: med stadigt hensyn til Socrates<\/em><\/a> (1841), which was later translated as The concept of irony, with continual reference to Socrates<\/em>. AD<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

At the Rare Book and Manuscript Library’s monthly No. 44 Society meetings, it is a tradition to share a book from the RBML vault that is related to the historical events of the day.\u00a0 On May 5th, a discovery was made while retrieving a first edition of Soren Kierkegaard’s Forord (1844) for the anniversary of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[171,236],"class_list":["post-231","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ad","tag-kierkegaard","tag-sammelband"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.library.illinois.edu\/rbx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}