[DCRM-L] Variant title page

[Robert Steele]

I'm cataloging a book from 1544 that seems to have a variant title
page from the copy in HathiTrust owned by the Universidad Complutense
de Madrid.

Both title pages are enclosed by the same woodcut decorative border,
and the words of the title and imprint are all in the same relative
positions, but there are 4 variant spellings (the first one in the
10th word of title) and 8 variant capitalizations (which of course
don't show up in transcription; the first is in the 8th word). The
HathiTrust copy also has a missigned leaf that is signed correctly in
our copy, but a careful comparison of the 2 pages reveals apparently
identical typography.

I don't know whether to create a new record in OCLC, or simply add a
note to the OCLC record ("Some copies have variant t.p. ... ") and in
our catalog ("Library's copy has variant t.p....), detailing the
variants. Actually, I have already added the note to the OCLC record,
but am poised to take it back out.

Here are the 2 titles:

Duello : libro de re imperatori, principi, signori, gentil'huomini, et
de tutti armigeri : co[n]tinente disfide, concordie, pace, casi
accadenti, et iudicii con ragione, essempi, et authoritate di poeti,
historiographi, philosophi, legisti, canonisti, et ecclesiastici :
opera dignissima, et utilissima ad tutti li spiriti gentili.

Duello : libro de re imperatori, principi, signori, gentil'huomini, et
di tutti armigeri : co[n]tinente disfide, concordie, pace, casi
accadenti, et giudici con ragione, essempi, et authorita' di poeti,
historiographi, philosophi, legisti, canonisti, et ecclesiastici :
opera dignissima, et utilissima a' tutti li spiriti gentili.

(See if you can find the differences).

Robert Steele
Jacob Burns Law Library
George Washington University