Isn't this a case where we are not (yet) permitted to create an RDA 
authority record because the subfield $d contains incompatible data?


On 10/31/2012 6:47 AM, Jennifer B Young wrote:
> Greetings Colleagues,
>
> A fellow NU cataloger has come across the following situation and we are stymied by how to proceed.
>
> On the piece, the title is: [Prisciani] De accentibus
>
> So we have 245 10 ‡a [Prisciani] De accentibus
>
> While our bib record is being cataloged using AACR2, we are contributing a RDA authority record.
> 100 0_ ‡a Priscian, ‡d fl. ca. 500-530. ‡t De accentibus. ‡l Italian
> 400 0_ ‡a Priscian, ‡d fl. ca. 500-530. ‡t [Prisciani] De accentibus
>
> We have not been able to find any guidance in either AACR2 or RDA on how to transcribe the square brackets. In our minds, square brackets usually denote supplied information of some sort. We don't want others to think that we supplied something we did not.
>
> Thoughts and suggestions welcome!
> Jennifer
>
> Jennifer B. Young
> Serials Catalog Librarian
> Northwestern University Library
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Nancy Sack
University of Hawaii