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"front" and "back" sides of a leaf of newspaper

"Recto" redirects hither. For the road in Manila, Philippines, see Recto Avenue. For the LRT station, see Recto station.

Left-to-right language books (eastward.g. English-language books): recto is the front end folio, verso is the dorsum page. In this picture, the recto page shown is of the following page in a volume and hence comes next to the verso of the previous page.

Right-to-left linguistic communication books: recto is the front folio, verso is the dorsum page (vertical Chinese, vertical Japanese, Arabic, or Hebrew). In this picture the recto page shown is of the following page in a book and hence comes next to the verso of the previous page.

Recto is the "right" or "front" side and verso is the "left" or "back" side when text is written or printed on a leaf of paper ( folium ) in a jump item such as a codex, volume, broadsheet, or pamphlet.

Etymology [edit]

The terms are shortened from Latin: rēctō foliō and versō foliō (which translate as "on the correct side of the leafage" and "on the back side of the leaf"). The two opposite pages themselves are chosen folium rēctum and folium versum in Latin,^[one] and the ablative rēctō , versō already imply that the text on the page (and not the physical page itself) are referred to.

Usage [edit]

In codicology, each physical sheet ( folium , abbreviated fol. or f.) of a manuscript is numbered and the sides are referred to every bit folium rēctum and folium versum , abbreviated as r and v respectively. Editions of manuscripts will thus mark the position of text in the original manuscript in the form fol. 1r, sometimes with the r and 5 in superscript, as in i^r , or with a superscript o indicating the ablative rēctō foliō , versō , equally in 1r^o .^[2] This terminology has been standard since the ancestry of modern codicology in the 17th century.

Lyons (2011) argues that the term rēctum "right, correct, proper" for the front side of the leafage derives from the employ of papyrus in tardily antiquity, every bit a different grain ran across each side, and but i side was suitable to exist written on, so that usually papyrus would comport writing only on the "correct", smooth side (and just in exceptional cases would there be writing on the reverse side of the leaf).^[3]

The terms "recto" and "verso" are also used in the codicology of manuscripts written in right-to-left scripts, like Syriac, Standard arabic and Hebrew. Still, as these scripts are written in the other direction to the scripts witnessed in European codices, the recto folio is to the left while the verso is to the right. The reading lodge of each folio remains outset verso, then recto regardless of writing direction.

The terms are carried over into press; recto-verso ^[4] is the norm for printed books but was an important advantage of the printing printing over the much older Asian woodblock press method, which printed by rubbing from behind the page being printed, so could simply print on 1 side of a piece of paper. The stardom between recto and verso can be convenient in the annotation of scholarly books, particularly in bilingual edition translations.

The "recto" and "verso" terms can besides be employed for the front and back of a one-sheet artwork, particularly in drawing. A recto-verso drawing is a sheet with drawings on both sides, for case in a sketchbook—although usually in these cases there is no obvious primary side. Some works are planned to exploit being on ii sides of the same slice of paper, but ordinarily the works are not intended to be considered together. Paper was relatively expensive in the past; indeed good drawing newspaper yet is much more than expensive than normal newspaper.

By volume publishing convention, the first page of a book, and sometimes of each section and chapter of a book, is a recto page,^[5] and hence all recto pages volition have odd numbers and all verso pages will have even numbers.^{[6] [seven]}

In many early printed books or incunables and notwithstanding in some 16th-century books (due east.1000. João de Barros's Décadas da Ásia), it is the folia ("leaves") rather than the pages, that are numbered. Thus each folium carries a consecutive number on its recto side, while on the verso side there is no number.^[8] This was besides very common in eastward.g. internal visitor reports in the 20th century, before double-sided printers became commonplace in offices.

See also [edit]

• Book design
• Obverse and reverse in coins
• Page spread
• Folio (newspaper)

References [edit]

1. ^ e.g. Quibus carminibus finitur totum primum folium versum (rectum vacat) voluminis "These poems finish the full back page (the forepart is blank) of the first leaf of the book" [Giovanni Battista Audiffredi], Catalogus historico-criticus Romanarum editionum saeculi Fifteen (1783), p. 225.
2. ^ e.g. Roberts, Longinus on the Sublime: The Greek Text Edited Subsequently the Paris Manuscript (2011), 170; Wijngaards, The Ordained Women Deacons of the Church's Showtime Millennium (2012), 232; etc. Tylus, Manuscrits français de la collection berlinoise disponibles à la Bibliothèque Jagellonne de Cracovie (XVIe-XIXe siècles) (2010)[1]
3. ^ Martyn Lyons (2011). Books: A Living History. Getty Publications. p. 21. ISBN 9781606060834.
4. ^ Recto verso is an expression in French that means "two sides of a sail or page". In Flanders the term recto verso is also used to indicate two-sided printing. Duplex printers are referred to as recto verso printers.
5. ^ Drake, Paul (2007). "The Basic Elements and Order of a Volume". You Ought to Write All That Down. Heritage Books. p. one. ISBN978-0-7884-0989-9.
6. ^ Gilad, Suzanne (2007). Copyediting & Proofreading For Dummies. For Dummies. p. 209. ISBN9780470121719.
7. ^ Merriam–Webster, Inc. (1998). Merriam-Webster'southward Manual for Writers and Editors . Merriam–Webster. pp. 337. ISBN9780877796220.
8. ^ Meet e.thousand. a modernistic reprint of the 3rd Década (1563): Ásia de João de Barros: Dos feitos que os Portugueses fizeram no descobrimento e conquista dos mares e terras do Oriente. Tercera Década. Imprensa Nacional – Casa da Moeda, 1992.

External links [edit]

Await up recto  or verso in Wiktionary, the complimentary lexicon.

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recto_and_verso

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