Editing Manuscript (section)

===Parts===
* [[Book cover|Cover]]
* [[Book design#Front cover, spine, and back cover|Flyleaf]] (blank sheet)
* [[Colophon (publishing)|Colophon]] (publication information)
* [[incipit]] (the first few words of the text)
* decoration; illustrations
* dimensions
* [[Shelfmark]] or Signature in holding library (as opposed to printed Catalog number). Paper size number often precedes signature number with a ''circulus'' ([[degree symbol]]) following, but many libraries prefer spelling out the word (sometimes only in abbreviation) of the paper size (e.g. Fol[ia]., Qu[arto], Oct[avo, etc.). Some libraries use an equal sign instead of the circulus and may change the side on which the paper size number appears (8=3456 vs 3456=8) for indexing purposes.
* works/compositions included in same ms
* [[codicological]] elements:
** deletions method: erasure? [[overstrike]]? [[overdot|dots above letters]]?
** headers/footers
** page format/layout: columns? text and surrounding commentary/additions/glosses?
** [[Interpolation (manuscripts)|interpolation]]s (passage not written by the original author)
** owners' marginal notations/corrections
** owner signatures
** dedication/[[inscription]]
** censor signatures
* [[collation]] (quires) (binding order)
* [[Pagination|foliation]]
* [[Page numbering|page numeration]]
* [[Bookbinding|binding]]
* manuscripts bound together in a single volume:
** convolute: volume containing different manuscripts
** [[Serial (literature)|fascicle]]: individual manuscript, part of a set (called a '''convolute''').