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<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Cook</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">books / Medical formularies (rbgenr) vs. Recipes (aat)</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">The whole</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">receipt</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> issue in early modern materials is problematic,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">and rbgenr has resolved it by not allowing use of either</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">receipts</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> or</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">recipes,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> but in dividing</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">between the cookery and med</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">icinal</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">receipts (even though they</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">don</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">’</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">t often</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">fall neatly into those categories.) </FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">So, okay, problematic,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">but workable</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">; our manuscripts containing recipes nearly always contain both kinds, so we end up applying</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">paired genre terms of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Cookbooks</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Medical formularies.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> But now</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">we need a genre term for individual recipes that are contained within a manuscript miscellany. Neither</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">cookbooks</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> nor</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">medical formularies</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> will do; both</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">indicate</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> a</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">book or</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">collection</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">recipes</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">rather than individual instances of</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">recipes</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">within a different kind of book</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">.</FONT></SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">AAT has</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">“</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">Recipes,</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">”</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"> and we do use AAT for terms we need not contained in the rbms controlled vocabularies, but I hesitate</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">to do it in this case. The two thesauri have different entirely approaches to the receipt problem, and to pick and choose here</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">seems to</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> <FONT FACE="Calibri">invite chaos.</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri"></FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
<P DIR=LTR><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT FACE="Calibri">What would you do?</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN></P>
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</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri">Deborah J. Leslie, M.A., M.L.S.<BR>
Head of Cataloging<BR>
Folger Shakespeare Library<BR>
201 East Capitol St., S.E.<BR>
Washington, D.C. 20003<BR>
202.675-0369<BR>
djleslie@folger.edu |</FONT></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"> </SPAN><A HREF="http://www.folger.edu"><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><U></U></SPAN><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></U><U><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT COLOR="#0000FF" SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri">http://www.folger.edu</FONT></SPAN></U><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN></A><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"></SPAN><SPAN LANG="en-us"><FONT SIZE=2 FACE="Calibri"> </FONT></SPAN></P>
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