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[Erin Blake]

How about using a full transcription, instead of omitting the key phrase "just as printed"? It would be: "K[emo] she-n[idpas] Be-Brodi [i.e. Prague]" with a note explaining where the identification with Prague came from. As you said, it's not that the place is fictitious or incorrect, it's just written in a form that doesn't pin-point it, so it could do with clarification in square brackets.  

   EB.

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Dear Colleagues-

 

Here's a problem I have occasionally encountered, but can't remember doing so in a cataloging context. I have a Hebrew book with information supplied in the imprint as follows:

 

K[emo] she-n[idpas] meaning "just as printed" in very small type, followed by "Be-Brodi" meaning "In Brody" in large and heavy type, as though this were the correct imprint. Immediately following this are the names of the printers and the year of printing according to the "anno mundi" Jewish calendar. Below that is a decorative dividing line followed by the title of the book, the name of the printing house and the correct place of printing in Cyrillic script, followed by the date of printing according to the Gregorian calendar and in so called Arabic numerals.

 

In the light of DCRM(B) rule 4B9, one could record the place of printing in the 260 field as Be-Brodi followed by [i.e. Prague], the correct place of printing in its modern English form. However, technically, Be-Brodi is not a ficticious or incorrect place of printing because it is proceeded by the phrase "just as printed (in)". Does anyone have any suggestions as to how to handle this problem correctly?

 

If it has any bearing on the problem, I suspect the printer did this so that the unsuspecting buyer might in fact think the book had been printed in Brody.

 

Thanks,

 

Dan Rettberg

Rare Book and Manuscript Bibliographer

Klau Library

Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion

3101 Clifton Avenue

Cincinnati, OH45220-2488

 

drettberg at huc.edu


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