[DCRM-L] DCRM(B) 0C2c as applied to Deodatus, Pantheum hygiasticum (1628/1629)

[Noble, Richard]

What would you all prefer to find in OCLC as the one record or two records
of the very many that would best serve for Claudius Deodatus, *Pantheumn
hygiasticum* (search: au= deodatus, claudius and yr: 1628-1629)?

The letterpress title pages would render as:

Bruntruti [Porrentruy, Switzerland] : Excudebat Wilhelmus Darbellay, Anno M
DC XXVIII.

(Porrentruy is majority French-Speaking; its German name is Pruntrut.)

There is an added engraved title in many or most but by no means all copies
(Brown has only a bound-in photocopy of it) with imprint here quoted

'Excusum Bruntruti et apud Ludovicum König inueniendum Anno MDCXXIX.'

König was a large-scale bookseller in Basel, not the small town of
Porrentruy (none of the OCLC records evidences awareness of his actual
location). Quite how to render that in the 260 baffles me a bit, but the
real question is: treat this as two issues (1628 without engr. ti., 1629
with)? Or as one edition, following the engraved title per 0C2c (choose
later date) and note that the engr. ti. is missing in some copies, and was
perhaps issued directly without it by Darbellay?

I don't think 0C2d applies at all: the question is whether to treat the
absence of the engraved title as copy specific and allow it to trump the
letterpress title in a single master record, since it can probably never be
proved that it wan't simply lost in all cases. The letterpress imprint
could be treated as a manufacturing statement?

I don't think the tactic of a single record for the 1628 imprint, with a
note re engraved title, is quite right bibliographically speaking--the
engraved title is a true issue variant, at least--but that's the preference
of most of the existing "master" records, and tolerable I suppose.

Advanced or even very advanced descriptive bibliography is easier than this
sort of cataloging ...

RICHARD NOBLE : RARE BOOKS CATALOGER : JOHN HAY LIBRARY : BROWN UNIVERSITY
PROVIDENCE, RI 02912 : 401-863-1187/FAX 863-3384 : RICHARD_NOBLE at BROWN.EDU
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