[DCRM-L] English Bible puzzle

[Young, Stephen]

Ann,
I probably should have added that I would include in the 500 note the peculiarities of the preliminaries in your copy.
Stephen Young


From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Young, Stephen
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 2:25 PM
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Ann,

I would catalog it as the edition you think you have identified, make a 500 note: Description based on imperfect [library] copy wanting t.p. Title supplied from ESTC S101940 … In this copy, a t.p. from Christopher Barker’s 1599 ed. with the year artfully masked and replaced with 1603 has been substituted for the 1603 t.p. subfield 5[your library identifier code].

You could make a 246 for your actual title and add subfield 5 and your library identifier code to it.

Stephen R. Young
Rare Book Team Leader
Catalog and Metadata Services
Sterling Memorial Library
Box 208240
New Haven, CT 06520-8240

Tel.: 203-432-8385
Fax: 203-432-7231

Email: stephen.young at yale.edu



From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Ann Myers
Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2010 1:52 PM
To: DCRM Revision Group List
Subject: [DCRM-L] English Bible puzzle

I have an English Bible which is proving particularly difficult to catalog. The problem turned out to be that the title page does not match the edition of the text. I have determined that the text is a 1603 edition of the Bible, printed by Robert Barker. It essentially matches STC (2nd ed.) 2189 (ESTC S101940) with the exception of the placement of a few preliminary leaves (some that precede the New Testament in STC 2189 precede the Old Testament in my copy, and some that precede the Old Testament in STC 2189 are lacking in my copy). However, the title page, instead of being that for Robert Barker’s 1603 edition, is the title page for Christopher Barker’s 1599 edition with the year artfully masked and replaced with 1603.

So now my question is how best to catalog this? It seems like I should treat it as an imperfect copy for which the details of a perfect copy can be determined (following DCRM(B) 0B2.2) and attach our holdings to a record for STC 2189, but I’ve never had an imperfect copy where the bulk of the imperfection was the title page itself. Do I include a 246 in our local catalog for the title page of the book in hand and make copy-specific notes as appropriate? Or is there a different strategy I should use?

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

--Ann

Ann Myers
Special Collections Cataloger
Morris Library Mail Code 6632
Southern Illinois University Carbondale
605 Agriculture Drive
Carbondale, IL 62901
618-453-1499
amyers at lib.siu.edu
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