[DCRM-L] Question about tironian notes in DCRM(B)

[Manon Theroux]

Hi, Jenny-

This page has links to the discussion papers from the DCRM Conference, held
10-13 March, 2003, at Yale University:
http://www.rbms.info/committees/bibliographic_standards/dcrm/dcrmtext.html

If you scroll down to the Conference section, look under Working Group 2,
and click to open "Transcription Issues 1" (a discussion paper written by
Deborah J. Leslie & Benjamin Griffin), you'll find the following on  p. 18:

===
4.1. Tironian sign. The Gothic font’s “tironian sign” should be transcribed
as an ampersand, since it is the black-letter analogue for what appears as
an ampersand in roman type. Both are derived from MS. contractions of Latin
“et”. (This was the decision arrived at by the Bibliographic Standards
Committee at the ALA annual meeting in 1999).
===

Unfortunately, I don't find anything about the Tironian sign in the BSC
minutes from 1999. The closest thing I could find there was: "Treat an
ampersand as an ampersand."

-Manon


On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 7:26 PM, <jnelson at law.berkeley.edu> wrote:

> Dear DCRM-Listers,
> I was asked the below question by someone from the Latin for Catalogers
> workshop. Since it is a little out of my purview and expertise, I thought I
> would put it to this group.
> Best regards,
> Jenny
>
> Question:
>
> "...In DCRB, catalogers were instructed to transcribe the Tironian sign for
> "et" as "[et]" if they were unable to reproduce it.  DCRMB 0G8.2 says to
> transcribe a Tironian sign as an ampersand without brackets. When DCRMB was
> published, I didn't understand the reason for this change, and I still
> don't. To me it seems better to transcribe a Trionian sign as '[et]' because
> it is from a special shorthand system and the ampersand was created from the
> ligature of the word 'et' ... do you have any insight into this rule
> change?"
>
>
>
> --
> Jennifer K. Nelson
> Reference Librarian
> The Robbins Collection
> UC Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall)
> Berkeley, CA 94720
> jnelson at law.berkeley.edu
> Tel: 510.643.9709
> Fax: 510.642.8325
> www.law.berkeley.edu/library/robbins/
>
>
>
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