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Final Report 0. General Rules AMREMM DCRM(MSS) AMREMM/DCRM(MSS) Review Group: Final Report Appendix C: Rules comparison 0. General Rules AMREMM DCRM(MSS) Comments/Discussion 0A. Scope 0A. Scope 0A. Scope Range in date from late antiquity 0A1. General rule. Rules for cataloging Both AMREMM and DCRM(MSS) are through the middle ages and renaissance and individual textual manuscripts. primarily standards for item-level cataloging. up into early modern. Terminal date ~1600 I.2 Modern counterpart to AMREMM AMREMM is primarily for pre-modern or but “application should be governed by the scriptorium-era materials, while DCRM(MS) nature of the material and its method of is intended for later manuscripts. production more than chronological limitations”. 0A. (cont.) Intended primarily for Latin and [intentionally left blank] No DCRM(MSS) equivalent Western European vernacular manuscripts. 0A. (cont.) Can be applied to literary, letters, 0A2. Types of materials covered. Includes DCRM(MSS) includes a broader range of legal documents, archival records in the form handwritten, typewritten, or otherwise materials, e.g. miscellanies, ledgers, deeds, of fragments, single leaves or sheets, rolls, or unpublished resources such as letters, diaries, minutes, etc. bound or unbound manuscript codices miscellanies, ledgers, deeds, wills, legal AMREMM explicitly excludes and containing one or more works. papers, minutes, treatises, speeches, theses, DCRM(MSS) explicitly includes typescript devotional or literary works, and screenplays. and other forms of mechanical reproduction, Manuscript is understood to mean any item It also covers manuscripts produced during like galley proofs. written by hand. Excludes typescripts, various stages of the publication process, such mimeographs, other mechanical or electronic as drafts of works intended for publication means of substitution for handwriting. and galley or page proofs, and handwritten or typewritten copies of published works. Standard can be applied for reproductions in microform, photographic, or electronic Manuscripts take the form of codices, scrolls, formats, but not facsimiles. or multiple sheets; and may exist as handwritten or typescript originals, letter- press transfers, carbon copies, mechanical or photographic reproductions, including AMREMM DCRM(MSS) Comments/Discussion mimeographs, photostats, or microfilm, or digitized versions. [intentionally left blank] 0A3. Ambiguous publication status. For No AMREMM equivalent. mechanically produced items whose publication status is ambiguous, such as family newsletters or dissertations, different institutions may designate their status in different ways, applying DCRM(MSS) or a standard intended for published material, such as DCRM(B) or DCRM(S), accordingly. [intentionally left blank] 0A4. Mixed material items. In the case of No AMREMM equivalent. mixed-material items, such as scrapbooks, printed forms completed by hand or keyboard, or photograph albums with manuscript captions, the cataloger will need to use judgment to determine whether DCRM(MSS) or another standard, such as DCRM(G) or DCRM(B), is most appropriate. Sources of information 0B. Sources of information 0C. Source of information AMREMM DCRM(MSS) Comments/Discussion 0B1. The source of information is the 0C. The source of information is the manuscript itself, the parts that are written in manuscript itself. a script or hand contemporary with the hand of the main body of the manuscript’s text. Prefer title page or colophon if present. In absence of title page: ● Opening or closing rubric ● Running title ● Contents list ● Incipit ● Explicit ● Other evidence, e.g., script, decoration, layout, binding, etc. 0B1 (cont.). If no satisfactory contemporary 0C (cont.) If the manuscript does not provide In AMREMM, if the title is supplied from information is available from any of these sufficient information for the description, it alternate sources, it is enclosed in square sources, transcribe or obtain it from one of the can be supplemented with: brackets. In DCRM(MSS) supplied following later alternate sources of ● Reliable information from the information is not enclosed in square information generally in this order of manuscript’s housing or brackets. preference and enclose it in square brackets accompanying materials (dealer ● Title page, colophon, etc. in later description, accession record, notes or script correspondence by previous owner). ● Cover, spine, or fore-edge title in later ● Reference sources. script ● Appropriate external sources, such as ● Published or unpublished descriptions contemporary newspaper article. ● Published edition ● Other reference sources 0E1. Square brackets. Do not enclose [See also 1A2] supplied information in square brackets. (Use The use of square brackets indicates that of square brackets in transcribed titles and information is either present in a manuscript statements of responsibility and quotations in notes in 0G, 1C, 1E and 7A4.2) AMREMM DCRM(MSS) Comments/Discussion and contemporary or original, but 0G1.2 Replace symbols or other matter that supplemented by the cataloger, as in the can’t be reproduced using available expansion of abbreviations; or present in a typographical facilities with a cataloger’s manuscript but of a later date; or not present description in square brackets. in a manuscript at all, but taken from some other source 0B1.1 (optional). If a published catalog [intentionally left blank] No DCRM(MSS) equivalent. description emanating from or recognized as authoritative by the holding institution already exists for a manuscript, use this alternate source of information as a substitute for the chief source of information 0B2. Title and statement of responsibility -- 0C. (cont.) Sources of information for formal Chief source of information titles and statements of responsibility are in ● Edition/version -- Chief source of 1C1.1 and 1E1 information ● Production, date, etc. -- Chief source of information ● Physical description -- Entire item ● Notes -- Any source Punctuation 0C. Punctuation 0D. Prescribed punctuation 0C. Precede each area, other than the first, by 0D. Precede each area, other than the first, by Rules for prescribed punctuation are almost a full stop, space, dash, space (. - ), unless the a period-space-dash-space (. -- ) unless the the same: AMREMM prescribed punctuation area begins a new paragraph. area begins a new paragraph. for preceding the first element of each area, Precede or enclose each occurrence of an and DCRM(MSS) specifies that paragraphs element of an area with the standard Precede or enclose each occurrence of an end with normal punctuation. punctuation prescribed at the head of each element of an area with standard punctuation chapter in these rules for that area. AMREMM DCRM(MSS) Comments/Discussion Precede and follow each mark of prescribed as indicated in the “prescribed punctuation” punctuation by a space, except for the comma, sections of these rules. full stop, opening and closing parentheses, Precede each mark of prescribed punctuation and opening and closing square brackets, by a space and follow it by a space, with the which are not preceded by a space; the following exceptions: the opening parenthesis and square bracket are comma, period, closing parenthesis, and not followed by a space. closing square bracket are not preceded by a Precede the first element of each area, other space; the opening parenthesis and opening than the first element of the first area or the square bracket are not followed by a space first element of an area beginning a new paragraph, by a full stop, space, dash, space. If an entire area or element is omitted from When that element is not present in a the bibliographic description (e.g., because it description, precede the first element that is is not present in the source), also omit its present by a full stop, space, dash, space corresponding prescribed punctuation. Do not instead of the prescribed punctuation for that use the mark of omission. element. End paragraphs with normal punctuation (usually the period). 0C. (cont.) Follow conventions of modern 0G3.1 Do not necessarily transcribe Both AMREMM and DCRM(MSS) follow punctuation when transcribing information punctuation as it appears in the source. rules of modern punctuation in transcriptions. from the source, adding mandatory ISBD Instead, follow modern punctuation DCRM(MS) provides more specific guidance marks of punctuation where applicable. Since conventions, using common sense in deciding on transcribing punctuation. See section on information is transcribed in a regularized whether to include the punctuation, omit it, transcription below. form (see 0F1, 0F3), do not reproduce replace it, or add punctuation not present. original punctuation that would be contrary to modern conventions of punctuation or that would result in double punctuation. 0C. (cont.) Indicate an interpolation by 0G6.1. Indicate an interpolation in the AMREMM and DCRM(MSS) follow similar enclosing it in square brackets. transcription or in a quoted note by enclosing practices for indicating interpolations it in square brackets. If transcribing text with conjectural interpolations. missing or obscured letters or words that can AMREMM DCRM(MSS) Comments/Discussion Indicate a conjectural interpolation by adding be reconstructed with some certainty, include a question mark following the questionable these in the transcription, enclosing them in information. square brackets. Make an explanatory note if considered important. 0G6.2. Indicate each conjectural interpolation by adding a question
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