[DCRM-L] Devised titles in DCRM(MSS): required components conundrum

[Erin Blake]

Can someone please help me see what I'm missing? DCRM(Manuscripts) appears
to have contradictory instructions on devised titles...

1B1.2.1 says there are two required components in a devised title: Form or
Genre, and Creator (if known).

But both both required components are missing from 1B5, which says to use
the first line of a work in verse as the title, if it lacks a formal title.

The example in 1B5 says:
Oh God! whose dread and dazzling brow
*Note:* Title from first line of hymn

If the required elements are included,it seems it would have to be
something like:
Hymn by William Cullen Bryant beginning Oh God! whose dread and dazzling
brow

The instructions at 1B1.1 say that the *order *of required components isn't
prescribed, unless rules for specific types of manuscript say otherwise.
What about their presence in the first place?

Thanks,

Erin.

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