Cataloguing rules for manuscripts
Archives
- ISAD(G), 1993-94
- ISAD(G)2, 2000
- Multilevel description as the first principle:
"Link each description to its next higher unit of description, if applicable,
and identify the level of description"
Units of description: Fonds, Sub-fonds, Series, Sub-series, File, Item
Concept of creator of the unit of description:
responsible for the creation, accumulation and maintenance of the records
Libraries
General rules
R.W.G.Vail, Library trends,
1957: "the librarian must arrange and catalog them [his manuscripts]
so that they will be useful to the scholar. No two librarians will agree as to how this should be done"
AACR2 (2002): chapter 4
"the rules … cover the description of manuscript materials
… and collections of such manuscripts"
Rules adapted from printed materials
ISBDs deal only with published resources
Rules for music manuscripts
Code
international de catalogage de la musique / Association internationale des bibliothèques musicales (1957-1983).
Vol. 4, Rules for cataloging music manuscripts / compiled by Marie Louise Göllner
RISM
guidelines on music manuscripts (typescript, c.1975)
In Italy:
Guida
alla catalogazione dei manoscritti musicali / ICCU ; a cura di Massimo Gentili-Tedeschi
ISBD
for music manuscripts (dissertation, 2010)
Regole di catalogazione dei manoscritti musicali (in preparation)