Morris,

Series authority records can exist either as work- or expression-level records.

This is an expression-level record (it represents a particular expression of Erasmus’s complete works, the Amsterdam edition, as you noted). 380 is for “Form of work”; there isn’t an equivalent MARC field for “Form of expression”, nor is there an RDA element for this. So when we’re identifying a series like this one that is an expression, we record the fact that it’s a series using the RDA “Other distinguishing characteristic of expression” element, which is coded in MARC 381. (This is true of any series—if the record represents a work it’s recorded in 380; if the record represents an expression it’s recorded in 381).

I know it seems a little odd; most series can have a series authority record at the work level, but in the case of series like this that are the complete works of somebody the “work” is the complete works (which would have the AAP Erasmus, Desiderius, ǂd -1536. ǂt Works), but the aggregate “work” at that level isn’t a series.

Someone from LC will have to comment on whether or not subfield $b should precede the year in the call number in 050.

Bob

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Subject: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536. Works. 1969 (n86716878)

Good afternoon. I have a few questions regarding the authority record for the “Amsterdam edition” of Erasmus’ works:

010 n 86716878 ǂz n 85331727

040 DLC ǂb eng ǂe rda ǂc DLC ǂd DLC ǂd UPB ǂd MoSU ǂd UPB

046 ǂk 1969 ǂ2 edtf

050 0PA8500 1969

1001 Erasmus, Desiderius, ǂd -1536. ǂt Works. ǂf 1969

377 lat

381 Series (Publications) ǂ2 lcsh

381 Multipart monograph

4001 Erasmus, Desiderius, ǂd -1536. ǂt Works. ǂl Latin ǂf 1969

4001 Erasmus, Desiderius, ǂd -1536. ǂt Works. ǂl Latin ǂs (Amsterdam edition)

4001 Erasmus, Desiderius, ǂd -1536. ǂt Works. ǂl Latin ǂs (Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen)

4001 Erasmus, Desiderius, ǂd -1536. ǂt Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami recognita et adnotatione critica instructa notisque illustrata

4001 ǂw nnea ǂa Erasmus, Desiderius, ǂd d. 1536. ǂt Works. ǂf 1969

642 ordinis 2. t. 4 ǂ5 DLC

643 Amsterdam ǂa New York ǂb North-Holland

644 f ǂ5 UPB

644 n ǂ5 DLC

645 t ǂ5 UPB

646 c ǂ5 DLC

670 Erasmus, Desiderius. Adagiorum Chilias secunda, 1988: ǂb series title page.

670 Centre for Reformation and Renaissance Studies, Victoria University in the University of Toronto, via WWW, 17 November 2016 ǂb (Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami is the third edition of Erasmus's complete works, and the first critical edition; also known as "the Amsterdam edition" and cited as ASD. The organization follows Erasmus's own organization into 9 "ordines". ASD will not include a new edition of Erasmus' correspondence (Ordo 3), there being no need to replace P.S. Allen's excellent critical edition: Opus epistolarum Des. Erasmi Roterodami (Oxford: 1906-58))

670 Erasmus, Desiderius. Works. 1969. Ordo 4, tomus 7, 2017: ǂb title page (Opera omnia Desiderii Erasmi Roterodami) title page verso (sous le patronage de l'Union académique internationale et de l'Académie royale néerlandaise des sciences et des sciences humaines)

670 Erasmus Center for Early Modern Studies website, viewed December 7, 2016 ǂb (The Erasmus Collection is an indispensable resource for the edition of Erasmus's Opera Omnia which is being published by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW)) ǂu http://www.erasmus.org/index.cfm?itm_name=home-EN

Shouldn’t the publication year in the 050 field be recorded in a subfield $b?
I typically see series format information in the 380 field. For this record, the fields were changed to 381. Is this a new practice?

Thanks in advance,

Morris Levy

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