Shelfmark

A mark, often incorporating numbers, which indicates a book's location within a library.

A mark, often incorporating numbers, which indicates a book's location within a library. The shelf mark is frequently the designation by which individual manuscripts are known.

  • German:
    Signatur
  • Portuguese:
    cota

Michelle Brown, Understanding Illuminated Manuscripts (Malibu, CA: J. Paul Getty Museum in association with the British Library, c1994).