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Issues: DCRMB4

Page history last edited by Deborah J. Leslie 5 years, 1 month ago

General errata:

 

  1. Re: "Brevigraph" ...
    1. Reconsider definition. Make a distinction between manuscript, in which an ampersand is a brevigraph, and print, in which it is simply a siglum representing 'and'?
    2. "A brevigraph is a symbol that represents two or more letters in a word. Brevigraphs were used regularly in old books and manuscripts. The symbols are generally not available in any standard character set, including Unicode." (https://everything2.com/title/brevigraph
    3. "brevigraphs, such as '&' (or other characters meaning the same) for and or Latin et (as in '&c.' for etc.)." (https://www.english.cam.ac.uk/ceres/ehoc/conventions.html
    4. "A breviograph or brevigraph (from Latin: brevis, short, and Greek: grapho, to write) is a type of scribal abbreviation in the form of an easily written symbol, character, flourish or stroke, based on a modified letter form to take the place of a common letter combination, especially those occurring at the beginning or end of a word. Breviographs were used frequently by stenographers, law clerks and scriveners, and they were also found in early printed books and tracts.[1] Their use declined after the 17th century." (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breviograph

Area 0 errata:

 

  1. 0C/0D. Chief source of information/Prescribed sources of information
    1. Re: decision to move sentence (“Do not transcribe any information that is not present in a prescribed source for that area”) to 0C as “Transcribe information found in the chief source”; B4 deleted sentence from 0D, but did not add anything to 0C about transcribing from the chief source because 0C isn’t about transcription, but about identifying the chief source. Discuss.
  2. 0G5.2. Information not considered part of any area
    1. Re: addition of “statements of privilege” and removal of “prices”; “statements of privilege” not added to B; silent omission from C is a format-related deviation; discuss removal of “prices”; agreed that it is part of area 8, but prices need to be mentioned with the other things that are silently omitted
  3. 0G8.2. If special marks of contraction ...
    1. Re: “However, transcribe an ampersand or a Tironian sign ( ) as an ampersand.” Revisit Tironian note. Change example to black letter ampersand? 

 

Area 4 errata:

 

  1. 4A3.3. ... re: capitalization:  Review for capitalization. Acc. to Chicago, although 'king' and other such titles are now lower case when used alone (8.23, 8.32: e.g. the king of Jordan), honorific titles including personal pronouns  is still upper case (8.23, 5.40: e.g. Queen Elizabeth, Her Majesty the Queen of England). the Kynges Noble Grace is therefore upper case. Q: add comment to 4A3.3? (DJL posted to DCRM-L; received response from Erin Blake, Sep 7, 2019) RESOLVED
  2. 4D5. Patterns for supplying a conjectural date
    1. See Area 4 errata. Query sent to DCRM-L 2019-11-09 
  3.  4E-4G: Manufacture information
    1. Rewrite or add new instructions for application to MARC 264--await revision done as part of DCRM 

 

Area 7 errata:

 

  1. 7B4.2. Partial or complete transcriptions
    1. Reword example to show a partial or complete transcription, to reflect rule. See DCRMG. 

 

Glossary:

 

  1. Need to discuss entry for "brevigraph".

 

 

Comments (1)

Deborah J. Leslie said

at 12:30 pm on Sep 14, 2019

Re: glossary entry. DCRM deals with many archaic conventions without calling them out in this manner. Devise a definition more in keeping with existing approaches

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