[DCRM-L] weird ? in resource

[Joseph Ross]

>From Karlsruhe Virtual Catalog I was able to download a pdf of this
publication from BNF Gallica..  The question mark appears not only on the
title page to represent [inaire], but it also appears throughout the atlas
in statements of responsibility for geogr ? [graphe]   and ord ?
ord[inaire].  The words are sometimes spelled out completely and other
times appear with a ?.  As the pages are engraved,  I think it is a
peculiar pattern for this publication and not a general  practice.  French
catalogers will either enter it in their catalog records as ord?  or as
ord[inaire].

I hope this helps.

Joseph Ross
Rare Books Cataloger at University of Notre Dame, retired

On Fri, Mar 1, 2024 at 12:27 PM Sprochi, Amanda K. via DCRM-L <
dcrm-l at lib.byu.edu> wrote:

> Sorry everyone, I wasn’t clear. The weird ? appears in the resource, not
> the OCLC record—I’m doing an original for this as no one else has quite the
> same edition. It’s interesting to think that they may be emulating
> manuscript practice, although I’ve never seen a ? in the mss I’ve
> cataloged, they are usually specific abbreviations for specific
> combinations of letters. I was just wondering if anyone ran into the use of
> the ? in a resource to indicate, well, wildcards we’d call them now. I’m
> wondering if this is widespread, particularly French, or particularly this
> publisher.
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