I found the following recommended guidelines from the "Descriptive
Cataloging of Rare Materials - Music DCRM(Music) - Draft rules
Containing guidelines for cataloging print and manuscript music
These guidelines offer flexibility to catalogers who may or may not want to
include as precise a transcription of the date as possible, although I think
that the working of what do with a date that only appears as a chronogrm
should be modified to include guidelines for non-Gregorian dates (or is that
inferred by the guidelines above "transcribe years other than Gregorian or
Julian as they appear."{
Heidi
M4D2. Transcriptions involving adjustments or additions
Roman numerals. When roman numerals appear as Gregorian or Julian
years, change them to arabic numerals unless they are erroneous or
misprinted.
M4D2(1) ex
, anno gratiae 1614
(On publication: Anno gratiae MDCXIV)
Transcribe years other than Gregorian or Julian as they appear.
M4D2(2) ex
, an VII 1798
(On publication: An VII, 1798)
Optionally, if it is considered important to retain in the catalog record
the exact expression of the date(s), transcribe the date(s) as it appears in
roman numerals and add the date in arabic numerals in square brackets.
M4D2(3) ex
, MDCLVI [1656]
Chronograms. If the date appears only in the form of a
chronogram, give it in arabic numerals enclosed in square brackets and give
the chronogram in the note area, if desired.
M4D2(4) ex
, [1740]
Note: Date of publication derived from chronogram: Ipso anno tertio
saeCVLarl typographiae DIVino aVXILIo a gerManis InVentae
- Original Message -
From: "Steven Bernstein" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To:
Sent: Friday, July 22, 2005 6:28 AM
Subject: Re: Chronograms
> So according to this rule, one would transcribe the title or the imprint
as
> it appears, i.e. those letters that are capitalized are kept capitalized
in
> the transcription. This is all fine and dandy for Latin character
> chronograms, but when it comes to Hebrew character chronograms we do not
> have upper and lower cases. There needs to be an alternate way of
> transcribing the chronogram for non-Roman scripts.
>
> Incidentally, does anyone know why this rule was removed from the 2nd
> edition of the AACR?
>
> Steven
>
> - Original Message -
> From: "Joan C Biella" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To:
> Sent: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 8:58 AM
> Subject: re: Chronograms
>
>
> Paul Maher has kindly referred me to rules about chronograms in earlier
> cataloging codes:
>
> Rules for descriptive cataloging in the Library of Congress. Washington :
> Library of Congress, Descriptive Cataloging Division, 1949.
> Rule 3:13D (p. 20).
> Chronograms. If the date of publication occurs as a chronogram in the
title
> or in the imprint it is transcribed as it appears. If the chronogram is
> lengthy or involved it is omitted. In either case the date is supplied in
> arabic numerals in the imprint. For example, if the imprint date is
> revealed in a chronogram reading "to aLL MarshaLLs aLL oVer the VVorLD I
> beqVeath thIs VVork gratIs," the date 1883 is supplied. This date was
> obtained by considering the large capitals to be roman numerals and by
> adding them together.
>
> This rule also appears, word for word, as rule 141E (p. 204) in AACR"1":
>
> Anglo-American cataloging rules. North American text. Chicago : American
> Library Association, 1967.
>
>
>
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