[DCRM-L] Recipes in RBGENR

[Robert Maxwell]

You also have the option of using LCSH:

655 -0 Recipes.

That's probably what I would do here.

Robert L. Maxwell
Head, Special Collections and Metadata Catalog Dept.
6728 Harold B. Lee Library
Brigham Young University
Provo, UT 84602
(801)422-5568

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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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