Standards for Descriptive Catalogues of Indian Manuscripts

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Dear list members,

 

A few years ago there was a posting on the INDOLOGY list giving an

anouncement about a draft standard for cataloguing manuscripts as a

supplement to AACR2 call "DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUING OF ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL,

RENAISSANCE, AND EARLY-MODERN MANUSCRIPTS" (AMREMM)

 

In the posting there was a url to download it: ftp://165.134.156.3/vatican

but I couldn't access it. If this is still available as a download and any

of the members has it and would be willing to forward it to me could they

get in touch with me please at harryspier .

 

 

 

Has this standard been finalized and is it now a good standard for an

electronic descriptive catalogue of Indian Manuscripts? Is anyone actually

using this standard to catalogue Indian Manuscripts?

 

 

In Biswas's Bibliographic Survey of Indian Manuscript Catalogues page xv he

divides the catalogues he surveyed into 7 categories based on their detail

of information. The low end being simply a list of titles in a particular

area, and the top end being full description (serial number, title, author,

commentator,scribe,language,physical description, condition, date,additional

particulars, beginning and ending lines, colophons, select portions from the

text, notes on author and work etc. etc.

 

Will the AMREMM standard handle both the minimal and maximum descriptions on

manuscripts as above?

 

Also is a manuscript being a commentary on a commentary a problem?

 

Poleman's Census of Indic Manuscripts in the United States and Canada gives

alternate titles for manuscripts, and alternate spellings for authors. He

also indicates if the authors name or the title appear in the manuscript or

not (in brackets means it doesn't). He also indicates if there he has doubt

about an author or title by a question mark after the title or author

(without brackets if he supplied the title or author but is uncertain, with

brackets if he doubts a reading.)

 

Can all of this type of information and indication of uncertainties be

easily indicated within the AMREMM standard?

 

Many thanks,

Harry

 

 

 

 

 

Harry Spier

371 Brickman Rd.

Hurleyville, New York

USA 12747

 

 

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