Hi, Jenny-<br><br>This page has links to the discussion papers from the DCRM Conference, held 10-13 March, 2003, at Yale University:<br><a href="http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/dcrm/dcrmtext.html">http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/dcrm/dcrmtext.html</a><br>
<br>If you scroll down to the Conference section, look under Working Group 2, and click to open "Transcription Issues 1" (a discussion paper written by Deborah J. Leslie & Benjamin Griffin), you'll find the following on p. 18:<br>
<br>===<br>4.1. Tironian sign. The Gothic font’s “tironian sign” should be transcribed as an ampersand, since it is the black-letter analogue for what appears as an ampersand in roman type. Both are derived from MS. contractions of Latin “et”. (This was the decision arrived at by the Bibliographic Standards Committee at the ALA annual meeting in 1999).<br>
===<br><br>Unfortunately, I don't find anything about the Tironian sign in the BSC minutes from 1999. The closest thing I could find there was: "Treat an ampersand as an ampersand."<br><br>-Manon<br><br><br>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:26 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:jnelson@law.berkeley.edu">jnelson@law.berkeley.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
<p>Dear DCRM-Listers,<br> I was asked the below question by someone from the Latin for Catalogers workshop. Since it is a little out of my purview and expertise, I thought I would put it to this group.<br> Best regards,<br>
Jenny<br> <br> Question:<br> <br> "...In DCRB, catalogers were instructed to transcribe the Tironian sign for "et" as "[et]" if they were unable to reproduce it. DCRMB 0G8.2 says to transcribe a Tironian sign as an ampersand without brackets. When DCRMB was published, I didn't understand the reason for this change, and I still don't. To me it seems better to transcribe a Trionian sign as '[et]' because it is from a special shorthand system and the ampersand was created from the ligature of the word 'et' ... do you have any insight into this rule change?"</p>
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