If I were to catalog them today in RDA: 1. Here begynneth a lytell treatyse called the Wyse chylde of thre yeare olde (http://lccn.loc.gov/22008862)
I would probably treat "Here begynneth a lytell treatyse called" as Introductory words.However, "Here begynneth a lytell ..." was once used quite often to start a title in publication, and as a cataloger, you have to treat them on a case-by-case basis. The wyse chylde of thre yeare olde itself is a complete title without those introductory words, but in the following example: *Here begynneth a lytell treatyse of the horse, the sheep, and the ghoos, *the "introductory words" are more integral to the title than in the previous title. So sometimes it is a cataloger's judgement call, I guess. 2. Three books of occult philosophy (http://lccn.loc.gov/92033147) I would still do the same. This is a collective title. On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 12:53 PM, Heidrun Wiesenmüller < wiesenmuel...@hdm-stuttgart.de> wrote: > The examples given in 2.3.1.6 for introductory words (not to be > transcribed as part of a title) all seem to be from the area of audiovisual > and electronic resources (e.g. "Disney presents"). I can see that the rule > can be useful here. > > But I'm not so sure about cases like these: > http://lccn.loc.gov/22008862 > http://lccn.loc.gov/92033147 > > I feel that "Here begynneth a lytell treatyse called" and "Three books of" > are also introductory words, and therefore would have to be left out of the > title proper of the manifestation, if we take RDA seriously. > > Mind, I'm not saying that this would be a good idea. And I'm very happy to > see that LC hasn't done it, although I find it's not a new rule (see AACR2 > 1.1.B1). > > But now I wonder: Is this due to the fact that LC doesn't use RDA (and > before that, AACR2) for early printed books in the first place? LC-PCC PS > for 0.2 says they use DCRM(B) instead, which unfortunately I don't know > much about. Or am I on the wrong track altogether, and these phrases are no > "introductory words" at all? > > Heidrun > > -- > --------------------- > Prof. Heidrun Wiesenmueller M.A. > Stuttgart Media University > Faculty of Information and Communication > Wolframstr. 32, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany > www.hdm-stuttgart.de/bi > -- Tony Fang Media & Monographs Original Cataloger Metadata & Intellectual Access 160 Wilson Library, University of Minnesota Libraries Phone: (612) 626-8344
