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 ====== British Library, London ====== ====== British Library, London ======
  
-Link to the [[http://www.bl.uk/|British Library, London]]+Access the [[http://www.bl.uk/|British Library website]] 
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 +Access the [[http://gso.gbv.de/DB=1.77/CLK?IKT=8486&TRM=gbuk|BL's dataset within the HPB]] (login required)
  
 [[:resources:hpb:content:british_library_london#ISTC - Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue| - ISTC file]]\\ [[:resources:hpb:content:british_library_london#ISTC - Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue| - ISTC file]]\\
 [[:resources:hpb:content:british_library_london#K17 file| - K17 file]] [[:resources:hpb:content:british_library_london#K17 file| - K17 file]]
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 ==== ISTC - Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue ==== ==== ISTC - Incunabula Short-Title Catalogue ====
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 Goff’s style is taken as a basic standard, although where appropriate a fuller title or more expanded account of contents is given to improve retrieval. Goff’s order has also largely been adhered to except, mainly, where more recent scholarship on an author or text has made a new arrangement or a new heading seem desirable, or where a new chronology of editions has been established as a result of recent research. This means that the author headings and titles used in ISTC fall within the tradition of incunable bibliography, as Goff largely followed the practice of Ludwig Hain’s Repertorium Bibliographicum, the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW) and BMC (Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum), with the result that some of the forms used for the names of authors differ from those used in such sources as modern library catalogues, the British Library General Catalogue as well as subject literature. ISTC includes notes recording widely diverging forms of names, which are indexed for searching.   Goff’s style is taken as a basic standard, although where appropriate a fuller title or more expanded account of contents is given to improve retrieval. Goff’s order has also largely been adhered to except, mainly, where more recent scholarship on an author or text has made a new arrangement or a new heading seem desirable, or where a new chronology of editions has been established as a result of recent research. This means that the author headings and titles used in ISTC fall within the tradition of incunable bibliography, as Goff largely followed the practice of Ludwig Hain’s Repertorium Bibliographicum, the Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (GW) and BMC (Catalogue of Books Printed in the XVth Century now in the British Museum), with the result that some of the forms used for the names of authors differ from those used in such sources as modern library catalogues, the British Library General Catalogue as well as subject literature. ISTC includes notes recording widely diverging forms of names, which are indexed for searching.  
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 +Interpreting abbreviations in the ISTC on HPB
 +References to libraries, institutions and other owners of Incunabula: 
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 +Details translating [[full names to codes|full names to codes]] 
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 +Details translating [[codes to full names|codes to full names]]
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 +Click [[bibliographical references|here]] for a full list of the bibliographical references used in ISTC.
  
 === Present/Absent fields === === Present/Absent fields ===
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 Although all ISTC records are provided with a code showing the main language of the work, country-of-publication codes have not been added, to avoid the confusion between fifteenth-century and modern boundaries. Although all ISTC records are provided with a code showing the main language of the work, country-of-publication codes have not been added, to avoid the confusion between fifteenth-century and modern boundaries.
    
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-=== Recommendations for searching == 
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-== Author names == 
-It was noted above that some of the forms used for the names of authors differ from those used in such sources as modern library catalogues. It is recommended that you search the Notes field for variant forms of a name, call up an ISTC record, check what the ISTC standard form of the name is and search for this term in the Author Word and Author Phrase fields.  
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-== Bibliographical references == 
-The Bib. ref fields are indexed in HPB, so you can do phrase searching for Goff M122, for example.  
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-RLIN: The NRP is the citation phrase index and the NRW is the citation word index. Thus, FIND NRP GOFF M122 will find only those records with that phrase in the RLIN 510 field (where the bibliographical references are held), while the search FIND NRW GOFF will find any record with that word in the RLIN 510.  
-Eureka/Telnet: Same as RLIN. 
-Eureka/Web, Advanced Search scre: 
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-Search field:                     Word from Citations                           Goff 
-Boolean connector          AND/OR/AND NOT,            choose AND 
-Search field:                     Words from Citations                          M122 
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-This will retrieve three records. The first contains "Goff M122", the other two contain "Goff" and two references to other reference works which also contain a reference to "M122", or even "M-122". 
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-A word of warning when searching for Hain numbers. Because Hain references are frequently amplified by references from Copinger's or Reichling's supplements, distinguished by various permutations of H, HC, HR etc., it is advisable to use the number on its own when searching for them.  
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-Interpreting abbreviations in the ISTC on HPB 
-References to libraries, institutions and other owners of Incunabula:  
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-Details translating [[full names to codes|full names to codes]]  
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-Details translating [[codes to full names|codes to full names]] 
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-Click [[bibliographical references|here]] for a full list of the bibliographical references used in ISTC. 
 ==== K17 File ==== ==== K17 File ====
  
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