[DCRM-L] Genre for a manuscript

[Robert Maxwell]

If you're asking about terms for 655 in bibliographic records, certainly you can use LCSH terms. 655 with second indicator "0" means the term comes from LCSH:

655 _0 Manuscripts.

Or

655 _0 Manuscripts, English.

Or whatever's appropriate that you find in LCSH.

Terms in 655 can be taken from any of the approved general thesauri (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/subject.html) or the thesauri specific to genre/form (http://www.loc.gov/standards/sourcelist/genre-form.html). Because there are so many thesauri to choose from, MARC has us identify by coding which thesaurus the term comes from, either using the second indicator or a code in $2.

LCSH terms can also be used in 380 fields (form of work, typically used in authority records). When I create an authority record for a manuscript I routinely include

380  Manuscripts $2 lcsh

(in this case the source of the term can't be identified by the indicator and so the code for LCSH is given in $2)

Bob

Robert L. Maxwell
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Dear collective wisdom, this is my first time trying to apply dcrm(b) to a manuscript.



I'm looking for a genre term for "manuscript" and I can't seem to find one in the RBMS controlled vocabularies, or lcgft. Can I just use lcsh?



I have 3 handwritten leaves (it appears there are some missing), the text is about village fences and some of the English traditions around them (like annual circumambulation).



No provenance, no author, the date 1865 is mentioned. Obviously a Level K record.



Any help is much appreciated!


Dawn Grattino
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