Summary catalogue of Post-Medieval Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, Oxford
NOTES ON THE INDEXES <p>The reference numbers throughout the indexes refer to the summary catalogue numbers prefixed to the descriptions of the manuscripts. The shelf-marks of the manuscripts are to be found printed in bold type at the foot of each description: <strong>MS. Eng. lett. h....
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| description | NOTES ON THE INDEXES
<p>The reference numbers throughout the indexes refer to the summary catalogue numbers prefixed to the descriptions of the manuscripts. The shelf-marks of the manuscripts are to be found printed in bold type at the foot of each description: <strong>MS. Eng. lett. h. I.</strong> If used outside the Library, the shelf-mark should be preceded by 'Oxf. Bodl.' If desired, the summary catalogue number may be added in parentheses: Oxf. Bodl. MS. Eng. lett. b. 1. (<em>SC</em> 40474); but the summary catalogue number alone is not a sufficient reference.</p>
<p>The index entries have been compiled directly from the manuscripts, not simply from the descriptions in the catalogue. They supply therefore details of items (within manuscripts) which are not mentioned in the catalogue description. Such entries in the index are distinguished by the addition (in parentheses) of folio or page references to the summary catalogue number. Where no folio reference is given in the index, for an item within a manuscript, it will be supplied in the catalogue description.</p>
<p>All persons who are identifiable in the <em>Dictionary of National Biography</em> or equivalent works of reference, <em>or</em> who are mentioned in the catalogue description, have been included in the index. Letters have been indexed under the names of both writer and recipient.</p>
<p>'Letters' indicates letters <em>from</em>, and 'letters to' indicates letters to, the person named in the index heading. Reference must be made to the catalogue description to identify the recipient or, in the second case, the writer, of the letters. 'Letters to and from' indicates that both sides of a correspondence exist within the same collection, one side usually in the form of manuscript or typescript carbon copies.</p>
<p>The vast majority of index entries are to people and places. While some attempt has been made to include subject headings, it has not proved possible to do this comprehensively. In general, subject headings such as 'Drama', 'Poetry' and 'Trade' have been used only when no author or place associated with the item could be identified and indexed. Thus, plays and poems by individual authors are indexed only under author, not under a subject heading; and (for example) accounts for trade with the West Indies are indexed under the country and not the subject heading. Only anonymous works and collections appear under the heading 'Poetry, English'. Some categories of shelf-marks, however, reflect a very general subject classification and the Conspectus of Shelf-Marks (pp. xix-lviii) can be used as a rudimentary guide to some subjects.</p>
<p>The conventions of forms of personal names used in P. D. Record's index to Madan's <em>Summary catalogue</em> have been followed here, except that peers are indexed under their family name, and a cross-reference supplied from their title. Kings, queens, princes and princesses are indexed under their forenames, popes under their adopted names, and holders of offices, such as bishops, under their surnames. Where known, dates have been supplied as the principal means of identifying individuals, but the date of birth has not been given for people who are still alive.</p>
<p>Headings are alphabetized word by word, and where a name is common to a place, a title, and a surname, the headings are arranged in that order. In the alphabetization of entries, the umlaut has been disregarded.</p>
<p>A separate index of persons who owned manuscripts before they were acquired by the Library, and of persons who have given manuscripts to the Library, follows the General Index.</p> |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:afdc31b4-3ba0-4373-b98e-d80c154a5ecc2022-03-27T03:52:20ZSummary catalogue of Post-Medieval Western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, OxfordBookhttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_1843uuid:afdc31b4-3ba0-4373-b98e-d80c154a5eccManuscriptsEnglishSymplectic ElementsOxford University Press1991Clapinson, MRogers, TDNOTES ON THE INDEXES <p>The reference numbers throughout the indexes refer to the summary catalogue numbers prefixed to the descriptions of the manuscripts. The shelf-marks of the manuscripts are to be found printed in bold type at the foot of each description: <strong>MS. Eng. lett. h. I.</strong> If used outside the Library, the shelf-mark should be preceded by 'Oxf. Bodl.' If desired, the summary catalogue number may be added in parentheses: Oxf. Bodl. MS. Eng. lett. b. 1. (<em>SC</em> 40474); but the summary catalogue number alone is not a sufficient reference.</p> <p>The index entries have been compiled directly from the manuscripts, not simply from the descriptions in the catalogue. They supply therefore details of items (within manuscripts) which are not mentioned in the catalogue description. Such entries in the index are distinguished by the addition (in parentheses) of folio or page references to the summary catalogue number. Where no folio reference is given in the index, for an item within a manuscript, it will be supplied in the catalogue description.</p> <p>All persons who are identifiable in the <em>Dictionary of National Biography</em> or equivalent works of reference, <em>or</em> who are mentioned in the catalogue description, have been included in the index. Letters have been indexed under the names of both writer and recipient.</p> <p>'Letters' indicates letters <em>from</em>, and 'letters to' indicates letters to, the person named in the index heading. Reference must be made to the catalogue description to identify the recipient or, in the second case, the writer, of the letters. 'Letters to and from' indicates that both sides of a correspondence exist within the same collection, one side usually in the form of manuscript or typescript carbon copies.</p> <p>The vast majority of index entries are to people and places. While some attempt has been made to include subject headings, it has not proved possible to do this comprehensively. In general, subject headings such as 'Drama', 'Poetry' and 'Trade' have been used only when no author or place associated with the item could be identified and indexed. Thus, plays and poems by individual authors are indexed only under author, not under a subject heading; and (for example) accounts for trade with the West Indies are indexed under the country and not the subject heading. Only anonymous works and collections appear under the heading 'Poetry, English'. Some categories of shelf-marks, however, reflect a very general subject classification and the Conspectus of Shelf-Marks (pp. xix-lviii) can be used as a rudimentary guide to some subjects.</p> <p>The conventions of forms of personal names used in P. D. Record's index to Madan's <em>Summary catalogue</em> have been followed here, except that peers are indexed under their family name, and a cross-reference supplied from their title. Kings, queens, princes and princesses are indexed under their forenames, popes under their adopted names, and holders of offices, such as bishops, under their surnames. Where known, dates have been supplied as the principal means of identifying individuals, but the date of birth has not been given for people who are still alive.</p> <p>Headings are alphabetized word by word, and where a name is common to a place, a title, and a surname, the headings are arranged in that order. In the alphabetization of entries, the umlaut has been disregarded.</p> <p>A separate index of persons who owned manuscripts before they were acquired by the Library, and of persons who have given manuscripts to the Library, follows the General Index.</p> |
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