[DCRM-L] Brackets or no brackets?

[Deborah J. Leslie]

I'm in a quandary about whether to use square brackets in the 245 and 260.

Condition: An unrecorded music book is missing its title page. However, the last page has bookseller's advertisements which lists this very book, and there is imprint-like information at the head of the page.

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Option: Transcribe the title and the imprint from this source, and do not use square brackets because it's transcribed from the manifestation

245 02 A tutor to the violin, or, Apollo's banquet : ǂb containing a collection of new ayres, theater-tunes and jiggs : to which is added the tunes of French dances, as they are used at court and dancing-schools : also plain instructions for the understanding the gamut, and notes for tune and time on the violin.

260    [London] : ǂb Printed for John Playford, at his shop near the Temple Church, ǂc [between 1669 and 1687]

Option: Transcribe the title and the imprint from this source, and use square brackets because although it's transcribed from the manifestation, it would be inappropriate to consider the advertisements as a title page substitute, as (dcrmb 0C3, 1B5)

245 03 [A tutor to the violin, or, Apollo's banquet : ǂb containing a collection of new ayres, theater-tunes and jiggs : to which is added the tunes of French dances, as they are used at court and dancing-schools : also plain instructions for the understanding the gamut, and notes for tune and time on the violin].

260    [London] : ǂb [Printed for John Playford, at his shop near the Temple Church], ǂc [between 1669 and 1687]


Option: Not transcribe at all but supply data based on available information

245 03 [Tutor to the violin]

260    [London] : ǂb [John Playford], ǂc [between 1669 and 1687]


What would you do?

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Deborah J Leslie (she/her) | Senior Cataloger | Folger Shakespeare Library | 201 East Capitol Street, S.E. Washington, DC 20003 | djleslie at folger.edu<mailto:djleslie at folger.edu>

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