[DCRM-L] Language qualifier for translations into the modern form of a language

[Robert Maxwell]

LCRI 25.5C says “when naming a language in a uniform title, base the name on the form found in the current edition of the MARC code list”, and the name for modern English there is “English.”

Looking in the authority file, the practice for modernized versions is to use the name of the modern language without qualifier. Some examples I found:

Hugues Capet (Chanson de geste). French
Chrétien, de Troyes, 12th cent. Chevalier au lyon. French
Chrétien, de Troyes, 12th cent. Chevalier de la charrette. French
Gawain and the Grene Knight. English
Beowulf. English

LCRI 25.5C says to use a form like “French (Old French)” for earlier forms of modern languages. There isn’t a similar instruction for a qualified form for modernized versions (except for Greek).

So I’d say that you’re right:

100 1   Langland, William, $d 1330?-1400?
240 10 Piers Plowman. $l English

Bob

Robert L. Maxwell
Special Collections and Ancient Languages Catalog Librarian
Genre/Form Authorities Librarian
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)422-5568
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Language qualifier for translations into the modern form of a language

I hope the collective wisdom of the list can help me out here.  I searched AACR2, the LCRIs and Cataloger’s desktop, but couldn’t find an answer.

I have an edition of Piers Plowman translated into modern English.

Do I code the

240 10 Piers Plowman. |l English  (?)  (and 041  _1  |a eng |h enm ?)

My instinct says “yes” and I dimly remember a section in either AACR2 or the LCRIs that stated this implicitly, but I can’t find it now.

Dorothy Auyong
Principal Rare Book Cataloger
Huntington Library
dauyong at huntington.org
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