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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Hi Calli,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">The superscript “o” is clearly meant to function as an umlaut. It’s interesting that there’s a letter u with a superscript character above it in the place of an umlaut in one instance,
though mostly u has a regular umlaut above it where required.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">We are moving in the direction of transcribing letters as they are meant to be (e.g. vv where there is a slight space between the two letters v is now transcribed as w). Under those
circumstances, lacking technical power to transcribe the superscript o, if I were in this dilemma I would transcribe as ö, and add a note about how the umlauts are represented on the title page.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">I do not actually enter things on OCLC, so if somebody from the US answers your email, follow what they say, not what I say.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-fareast-language:EN-US">Best wishes,<br>
Karen<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Dr Karen Attar<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Curator of Rare Books and University Art<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Senate House Library, University of London<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Senate House<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Malet St<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">London WC1E 7HU<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="DE" style="font-size:11.0pt;mso-ligatures:standardcontextual">Tel. 020 7862 8472<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><a href="https://research.london.ac.uk/search/fellow/516/dr-karen-attar/"><span lang="DE" style="color:#467886">https://research.london.ac.uk/search/fellow/516/dr-karen-attar/</span></a></span><span lang="DE" style="mso-ligatures:standardcontextual"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> DCRM-L <dcrm-l-bounces@lib.byu.edu>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>Calli Neumann via DCRM-L<br>
<b>Sent:</b> 04 December 2025 16:18<br>
<b>To:</b> dcrm-l@lib.byu.edu<br>
<b>Cc:</b> Calli Neumann <CNeumann@getty.edu><br>
<b>Subject:</b> [DCRM-L] Transcription of German superscript "o"<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Hello,<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">I'm cataloging disbound leaves of a German book from 1556, which is digitized
<a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en" title="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en">
here</a><a href="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en" title="https://www.google.com/books/edition/New_gro%C3%9F_distillier_Buch_wolgegr%C3%BCndter/-nhVAAAAcAAJ?hl=en"><span style="text-decoration:none">
</span></a>in Google Books.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">My question is about the superscript "o" in "Buch" in the title. The example in the table of Early Letterforms & Symbols shows that the letter should be transcribed with the superscript character
("mùss"). The same example also appears in a wonderful post from the Folger <a href="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/brevigraphs/" title="https://www.folger.edu/blogs/collation/brevigraphs/">
here</a>: "In German ... it really is a superscript <i>o</i>, a medieval superscript letter diacritic." There is a footnote that says this should not confused with the ring diacritic ("overring"), and that "Combining Latin Small Letter o" is Unicode U+0366.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Assuming I'm on the right track, how should this be entered in OCLC? There is only a ring in the diacritics and special characters menu. Unsure whether I can copy & paste a "u" with the Unicode
character indicated above, and it does not look right pasted in Connexion.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Thank you!<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;color:black">Calli<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p style="margin:0cm"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1A47B8">Calli Neumann<br>
</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:#1A47B8">Cataloging Librarian<b><br>
</b>Getty Research Institute<b><br>
</b>(310) 440 7499 | </span><u><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Arial",sans-serif;color:blue"><a href="http://www.getty.edu/">getty.edu</a></span></u><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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