FRBRoo introduces F3 Manifestation Product Type for the conceptual approach of FRBRer’s manifestation that represents all the physical objects that bear the same characteristics”.It is declared as a subclass of the CIDOC CRM class E55 Type, and therefore as a subclass, too, of the CIDOC CRM class E28 Conceptual Object (a merely abstract notion)
The publication itself, being an abstract notion, cannot have physical qualities such as, for instance, a given number of pages. Though it is possible to express that a publication is characterized by the number of pages that all of its exemplars, under “ideal” conditions, “should have” through “meta-properties”, a mechanism borrowed from CIDOC CRM and Meta-CRM.
Non intentional deviations, such as a torn page, are not a reason to change classification of an item under the respective F3 Manifestation Product Type.