The report of the act made by the proper officers.
The organization of gatherings in proper order in a codex. A collation might be expressed like this: 1 12 + 2 10 + 3 12 (wanting 12) which means a codex of 3 gatherings, the first of which has 12 folia, the second having 10 folia, and the third originally having 12 folia of which the last folia is missing, thus having 33 folia, or 66 pages in all.
The act of checking a book for completeness. A collational formula is an algebraic expression of the arrangement of the leaves and signatures in a book.
Description of a book's physical structure. That is, the arrangement and construction of quires and booklets within the codex. This may refer to, on the one hand, the original structure of the book and, on the other, the book's current structure.
used in descriptive bibliography as the term which describes the non-binding portion of the book, verifying the proper sequence and completeness of pages & their gatherings (signatures)
The description of a book, including number of leaves and pages and if it has a bibliography, illustrations, etc.
Technically, the examination and notation of the physical makeup of a book. By checking for the presence of every leaf or page originally in the volume when issued, a book may be collated as complete.
The part of a description of a book, apart from the contents, which describes the book as a physical object by specifying the number of volumes, pages, columns, leaves, illustrations, photographs, maps, format, size, etc.
assembling in proper numerical or logical sequence
The physical description (e.g. number of pages, size, etc.) of an item in a catalogue record.
The part of an entry providing a physical description of a work. For a book, the collation includes pagination or number of volumes, illustrations, and size.
Physical description of a book. It consists of the number of pages, presence of illustrations (maps, tables, graphs, charts, figures), bibliography and appendices.
the formal description of the make-up of a book; also the act of checking for completeness.
A physical description of the item, including number of pages for printed material, size, running time for movies, videos, etc., and whatever other details the cataloger feels are appropriate. The purpose of a collation is two-fold: to create a more complete catalog of a library’s collection, and to make an item easier to find if it’s in the wrong place on the shelf.
Description of the physical make-up of a book, using a standardised formula to record the number of Quires and the number of leaves in each quire.
in a bibliographic record, the physical description area or field, providing information about the number of pages, illustrations, presence of bibliography, size of material, etc.
verification of the proper sequence and completeness of pages.
In textual criticism and bibliography, collation is the reading of two (or more) texts side-by-side in order to note their differences.