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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">I'm in a quandary about whether to use square brackets in the 245 and 260.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Option</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">: Transcribe the title and the imprint from this source, and do not use square brackets because it's transcribed from the manifestation<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.95in;text-indent:-.7in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">245 02 A tutor to the violin, or, Apollo's banquet : ǂb containing a collection of new ayres, theater-tunes and jiggs : to which is added the tunes of French
dances, as they are used at court and dancing-schools : also plain instructions for the understanding the gamut, and notes for tune and time on the violin. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">260 [London] : ǂb Printed for John Playford, at his shop near the Temple Church, ǂc [between 1669 and 1687]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Option</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">: Transcribe the title and the imprint from this source, and use square brackets because although it's transcribed from the manifestation,
it would be inappropriate to consider the advertisements as a title page substitute, as (dcrmb 0C3, 1B5)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.95in;text-indent:-.7in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">245 03 [A tutor to the violin, or, Apollo's banquet : ǂb containing a collection of new ayres, theater-tunes and jiggs : to which is added the tunes of
French dances, as they are used at court and dancing-schools : also plain instructions for the understanding the gamut, and notes for tune and time on the violin]. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">260 [London] : ǂb [Printed for John Playford, at his shop near the Temple Church], ǂc [between 1669 and 1687]
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">Option</span></b><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">: Not transcribe at all but supply data based on available information<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.95in;text-indent:-.7in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">245 03 [Tutor to the violin]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:.25in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">260 [London] : ǂb [John Playford], ǂc [between 1669 and 1687]<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Georgia",serif">What would you do?
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#2E74B5">______________________<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;color:#2E74B5">Deborah J Leslie (she/her) | Senior Cataloger | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20003 |
<a href="mailto:djleslie@folger.edu"><span style="color:#2E74B5;text-decoration:none">djleslie@folger.edu</span></a>
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