<div dir="ltr">Hi!<br><br>I would rule out Option 1, as I think that, even if the title as transcribed in the advertisements is a faithful transcription of the title printed on the missing title page, it cannot record any mistakes or quirks on the title page.<br><br>I think Option 3 is perhaps overly cautious, especially if you could confirm that a couple of the other advertised titles are close transcriptions of their title page. That rests on the others being cataloged and your having access in person or to scans; I've not looked into how available they are. Again, I think that kind of research would mainly be warranted if you really wanted to rest easy. (I would probably end up spending a little time on this, just to set my Lawful Good brain at ease).<br><br>Option 2 seems to me the most pragmatic. It seems very likely that this transcription is going to be fairly authoritative, not lease because of its lengthy specificity. That's a good amount of type to set for an inaccurate title page. And, absent the title page, this is a good and believable title. So I think you are safe transcribing from that and adding appropriate descriptive notes.<br><br>FWIW,<br><br>P</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 2:18 PM Deborah J. Leslie <<a href="mailto:DJLeslie@folger.edu">DJLeslie@folger.edu</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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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">Condition</span></b><span style="font-family:Georgia,serif">: An unrecorded music book is missing its title page. However, the last page has bookseller's advertisements which lists this very
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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<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.95in"><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. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><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,
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.95in"><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]. <u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><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<u></u><u></u></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:0.25in"><span style="font-family:"Courier New"">260 [London] : ǂb [John Playford], ǂc [between 1669 and 1687]<u></u><u></u></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:9pt;color:rgb(46,116,181)">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" target="_blank"><span style="color:rgb(46,116,181);text-decoration:none">djleslie@folger.edu</span></a>
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