[DCRM-L] Recipes in RBGENR

[Lenore Rouse]

Deborah et al.

Maybe for this instance Recipes (Cookery) or some similar subterfuge?

In turn may I pose a question re. rbbin? I was looking for a heading to 
apply to dated leather bindings (i.e. where the binder has tooled the 
date on (usually) the cover) - I can't find any such term in rbbin and 
wonder if there would be enough interest in trying to generate such a term?

best regards
Lenore Rouse


Deborah J. Leslie wrote:
>
> Cookbooks / Medical formularies (rbgenr) vs. Recipes (aat)
>
> The whole “receipt” issue in early modern materials is problematic, 
> and rbgenr has resolved it by not allowing use of either “receipts” or 
> “recipes,” but in dividing between the cookery and medicinal receipts 
> (even though they don’t often fall neatly into those categories.)
>
> So, okay, problematic, but workable; our manuscripts containing 
> recipes nearly always contain both kinds, so we end up applying paired 
> genre terms of “Cookbooks” and “Medical formularies.” But now we need 
> a genre term for individual recipes that are contained within a 
> manuscript miscellany. Neither “cookbooks” nor “medical formularies” 
> will do; both indicate a book or collection of recipes rather than 
> individual instances of recipes within a different kind of book.
>
> AAT has “Recipes,” and we do use AAT for terms we need not contained 
> in the rbms controlled vocabularies, but I hesitate to do it in this 
> case. The two thesauri have different entirely approaches to the 
> receipt problem, and to pick and choose here seems to invite chaos.
>
> What would you do?
>
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