Cataloguing rules for music manuscripts

General principles

Descriptive data dictated by living together with other materials:

• Description based on a ISBD-like scheme
• Models:
• ISBD(A)
• ISBD(ER)
• ISBD(PM)
• Now under revision to adhere to the new general rules
• New:
• Punctuation: vertical bar ( | ) for new line
• Area 9 for music and text incipit
• Not very many issues:
• Descriptive data in areas, details in notes
• Some "strange" concepts?