[DCRM-L] Cataloging 18th-century colonial document - "f" in place of "s"
Margaret Nichols
mnr1 at cornell.edu
Fri Sep 4 08:43:49 MDT 2009
According to DCRM(B) G2. (in Appendix G), this
phrase should be transcribed with an "s" for the "long s," i.e.:
In the yeare of our Lord Christ one thousand seven hundred
That's my reading of it, anyway--
Best,
Margaret
At 09:58 AM 9/4/2009, Allison Rich wrote:
>Hello Sharon:
>
>According to the DCRM cataloguing rules even
>though the letter resembles an "f" it is truly an "s".
>It's just most often called a "long s" and is a
>convention of typography, not a change in the letter.
>
>So you would represent the 245 as:
>
>In the yeare of our Lord Chrift one thousand seven hundred
>
>The rules of converting and repesenting i's and
>j's, u's and v's can also be found in DCRM.
>
>The rules of capitalization can be found in AACR2.
>
>Have fun,
>~Allison
>
>
>
>
>>Good morning,
>>
>>Im a novice cataloger of rare documents and
>>have a question for the much more knowledgable
>>members of the list. Im cataloging an 18^th
>>century deed in which the letter which
>>resembles f is occasionally used where modern
>>writers use s. For example, the first line of
>>this document reads, in part,
In the yeare of
>>our Lord Chrift one thoufand Seven Hundred
>>This is the line we will be using for our
>>title. In the 245 field in our MARC record, my
>>fellow cataloger and I are debating how to
>>represent this letter. Should we use our modern
>>f, as Ive done above, since it most closely
>>resembles the letter used at the time? Should
>>we replace that letter with [s] to designate
>>what the letter represents to the modern
>>reader? Should we use an s without brackets?
>>And one more question: what is this letter called?
>>
>>Thanks in advance for any and all help!
>********************************
>"Outside of a dog, a book is probably man's best friend,
>and inside of a dog, it's too dark to read. - Groucho Marx"
>
>Allison Rich
>Catalogue Librarian
>John Carter Brown Library
>Providence, Rhode Island
>Allison_Rich at brown.edu
>
>********************************
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