SCIPIO (SCIPIO)
Art and rare book sales/auction catalogs
Why select this database?
- Only online list of auction catalog records in existence
- Provides information to auction sales catalogs from all major North American and European auction houses as well as many private sales
- Valuable source of information on art objects, rare books, history of collecting and comtemporary and historical market needs
- Catalogs for sales from the late sixteenth century to scheduled auctions not yet held
- Records include the dates and places of sales, the auction houses, sellers, institutional holdings, and titles of works
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| Sources | SCIPIO is a joint project of 25 different fine arts organizations, combining their art catalog collections | ||||||||||||
| Number of records | Over 300,000 | ||||||||||||
| Dates covered | Catalogs from the late sixteenth century to schedules auctions not yet held | ||||||||||||
| Updated | Daily | ||||||||||||
| Producer information | OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. Other databases by this producer: | ||||||||||||
| Copyright | Copyright © 1978- <!--ATTN T-SYSTEMS: Sprinkle, asset ID 28885-->2012<!-- // T-SYSTEMS--> OCLC Online Computer Library Center, Inc. | ||||||||||||
Index labels and examples of an expert search in SCIPIO
Use a colon after an index label (for example, au:) when you are not certain of your search terms. Use an equal sign after an index label (au=) for an exact match search. You can search with an index label from any search screen. The information you type overrides any default menu selections. The following examples show sample rather than actual searches.
| Search indexes | Labels | Examples |
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| Keyword | kw: | coffee or tea and house+ [keyword searches the publication year, ISBN, geographic codes, map data, and all the information found in the Author, Title, Notes and Subject indexes] |
| Accession number | no: | 37993343 (OCLC) |
| Auction house | ah: | American Art |
| Auction house phrase | ah= | "American Art Association, Anderson Galleries Firm" "American Art Association" |
| Citation | ci: | lugt |
| Citation phrase | ci= | lugt* |
| Corporate and conference name | cn: | canadian |
| Corporate and conference phrase | cn= | canadian acoustics week |
| Country of publication | cp: | Norway |
| Country of publication phrase | cp= | Nova Scotia |
| Date of sale | ds: | 01312007 (searching single date January 31, 2007) 01312007-02142007 (searching dates from January 31 to February 14, 2007) 012007-022007 (searching dates in January and February 2007) 2006-2007 (searching any day in either year) |
| Individual auctioneer | ia: | James Forbes |
| Individual auctioneer phrase | ia= | Forbes, James |
| Institution record call number | nu: | E185.61.B79141988 (omit all spaces and additional text except periods for each subfield of data provided; sometimes the data displayed actually comes from more then one subfield; truncating the search can make sure all types of data entry are retrieved; this index does not support browsing) |
| Institution record call number phrase | nu= | E185.61.B79141988 (searches the data as it is displayed for each subfield of data provided; sometimes the data displayed actually comes from more then one subfield; truncating the search can make sure all types of data entry are retrieved; this index does not support browsing) |
| Language phrase | ln= | kw:coffeehouse* and ln=japanese (browse the index for a complete list of languages) |
| Notes/Comments | nt: | translation-adaptation |
| Place of sale | ps: | paris |
| Publisher | pb: | media |
| Publisher phrase | pb= | new star media inc. |
| Publisher location | pl: | china |
| Sale code | sl: | LO1703 LEVER |
| Sale code phrase | sl= | "LO1703 LEVER" |
| Seller/subject | cx: | "francis leventritt" |
| Seller/subject phrase | cx= | Estate of Francis Leventritt Collection of James Stillman Davidson |
| Standard number | sn: | 1097461x or 1097-461x 1550463160 or 155-0463-160 9780763625894 or 978-0-763625-89-4 64002560 (for all searches, hyphens can be included in the search or removed; for the LCCN number, only the number used for storage, with the year and then six digits with leading zeros for unused digits, is indexed; many other standard numbers are included in this index) |
| subject | su: | coffee and tea house+ |
| Subject phrase | su= | coffeehouses in art |
| Title | ti: | music w3 british w3 enlightenment |
| Title phrase | ti= | music theory in the British isles during the enlightenment |
| Update date | up: | 20070101 |
| Year | yr: | 1971 |