[DCRM-L] Genre for a manuscript

[Matthew C. Haugen]

The Art and Architecture Thesaurus has the term Manuscripts so you could
record the genre term 655_7 Manuscripts $2 aat

See also the Subject Heading Manual H-1855
https://www.loc.gov/aba/publications/FreeSHM/H1855.pdf
Which specifies headings qualified by language which are established in
LCSH; in your case: Manuscripts, English.

Matthew C. Haugen
Rare Book Cataloger
102 Butler Library
Columbia University Libraries
E-mail: matthew.haugen at columbia.edu
Phone: 212-851-2451


On Feb 4, 2016, at 5:56 PM, Jane Stemp Wickenden <jane.wickenden at zen.co.uk>
wrote:

That sounds interesting Dawn;

I am guessing that beating the bounds on the feast of Corpus Christi (the
Thursday after Trinity Sunday) features in the text.� It still happens; I
have seen the procession round St Giles' parish, Oxford, although I believe
that they no longer knock a choirboy's head against the boundary stone to
make the point.

Can't help with the genre term, but perhaps a look into DCRM(MSS) will help.

Best regards,

Jane



On 04/02/2016 21:54, dawn.grattino wrote:

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

Senior Catalog Librarian

Cleveland Public Library

Catalog Dept.

17133 Lakeshore Blvd.

Cleveland, OH 44110

216-623-2885

fax 216-623-6980

dawn.grattino at cpl.org

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