[DCRM-L] Publication date question

Deborah J. Leslie DJLeslie at FOLGER.edu
Mon Nov 22 14:52:40 MST 2010


I take it back. It doesn't appear to be a typo, but an alternate German
way of spelling 1708. I did a keyword search in OCLC on the characters
MDCCIIX, and a bunch of records came up with 1708 in the date field. 

 

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It's: Historia ecclesiastica novi testamenti ... / Christiani Kortholti.

 

There are a few records similar to it in OCLC (#38742277), all with the
date of 1708, but that makes me think it could be 1712 as well.

 

Thank you!

 

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What's the book, Molly?

 

It must be a typo; if a printer really could realize savings from the
printing of 7 characters instead of 8, he would have just used an Arabic
date, which is only 4. 

 

From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On
Behalf Of Poremski, Molly D
Sent: Monday, 22 November, 2010 16:32
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Subject: [DCRM-L] Publication date question

 

Hello everyone, 

 

I'm currently cataloging a work with the publication date of: "MDCCIIX"
printed in red ink. 

 

Is this 1708 or 1712? Is it possible that the date was shortened by one
character (MDCCIIX as opposed to MDCCVIII) to conserve printing costs?
Was this a normal practice or merely a typo?

 

Thank you very much,

Molly

 

Molly D. Poremski

Cataloging Librarian

Jean and Alexander Heard Library

Vanderbilt University

419 21st Ave. S.

Nashville, TN 37203

(615) 343-1965

molly.d.poremskI at vanderbilt.edu

 

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