[DCRM-L] Brackets or no brackets?

[Bob Kosovsky]

Hi Deborah,

This is a well-known publication from an extremely well-known music
publisher.  I would not consider option 3.  I'm not up on the bibliographic
history of Apollo's Banquet, but I wonder if you could determine the
edition that you have.  That would enable you to determine what should be
in the title page transcription.  At least in OCLC, none of the editions
begin with the words "A tutor for the violin" but rather with the title
"Apollo's banquet."

Speaking of which, I would use option 2 - putting the 245 in square
brackets,  with ample 500s explaining the lack of title page and my
justification for choosing or not choosing a specific edition.

Bob Kosovsky, Ph.D. -- Librarian, Rare Books and Manuscripts,
Music & Recorded Sound Division
The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts - Dorothy and Lewis B.
Cullman Center

40 Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, NY 10023

www.nypl.org


On Mon, Oct 28, 2019 at 2:18 PM Deborah J. Leslie <DJLeslie at folger.edu>
wrote:

> 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.
>
>
>
> [image: A close up of text on a white background Description automatically
> generated]
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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]
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>
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> *Option*: Not transcribe at all but supply data based on available
> information
>
>
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> 245 03 [Tutor to the violin]
>
>
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> 260    [London] : ǂb [John Playford], ǂc [between 1669 and 1687]
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>
> What would you do?
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>
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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
>
>
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