[DCRM-L] Rare book question

[Margaret F. Nichols]

This is a rather ambiguous case, Avrom, but I'll venture in with my two cents and then we can see what others suggest. Since the work consists mainly of printed material from a book, I'd suggest cataloging it as a book with manuscript material in it, with code "a" in the "Type" element. You can describe the manuscript material and the binding in copy-specific notes.

I'm assuming that the printed pages are consecutive. If they're not, and instead there's a page here and a page there from the prayer book, that (to my mind) makes the item something closer to a scrapbook, and a little bit more of a candidate to be cataloged as an archival collection (in the sense of a unique collection consisting of mixed material) that's bound together in a volume. But if you're working mainly in the context of a library (i.e. book collection) and the manuscripts in the book aren't of exceptional importance, you could still make a case for cataloging the volume as a book, since it's mainly print material.

Good luck,

Margaret Nichols


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Margaret F. Nichols
Rare Materials Cataloging Coordinator
Cataloging & Metadata Services in RMC
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Cornell University
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From: dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu [mailto:dcrm-l-bounces at lib.byu.edu] On Behalf Of Avrom E Shuchatowitz
Sent: Wednesday, June 10, 2015 10:44 AM
To: dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu
Subject: [DCRM-L] Rare book question

I  work at the library of Yeshiva University in New York.  I am cataloging a rare item which is a compilation of Jewish prayers  in memory of the deceased.
I am not sure whether to call this a manuscript or a regular book.  It is privately compiled and bound.  The first page is a Ladino prayer handwritten in blue ink on lined note paper.  The next sixteen pages are printed Hebrew pages of prayers, extracted from an unidentified published prayer book.  The last three pages are again handwritten on lined note paper. It is a list of names and death dates in Hebrew.  All this is bound together in a piece of leather with a title mounted on a strip of tape on the front of it. This was probably compiled in New York in the 1950's. No name is given of a compiler or organization.  My question , therefore, is what to consider this item as.  In the fixed field, what code do I give it in the "Type" element?

Please advise.

Avrom Shuchatowitz
Yeshiva University Library
New York, NY

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