Scope: This is a handy-reference list of the order in which to arrange 5xx notes in catalog records for rare print materials. For details on notes, see Descriptive Cataloging of Rare Materials (Books), p.127-144148.
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Date last reviewed: 06/2801/172018
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Nature and scope of the work
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500 Book review.
500 Reply to Christine de Pisane's City of ladies (1473).Translation
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500 Translation of: The wind in the willows.Title
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500 Caption title.
500 Volume 2 has title: Der strenge Meister und seine Tochter.Responsibility for the work
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500 Sometimes attributed to Frederick Douglass.Publication note
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500 Volume 2 has imprint: London: Smith & Elder, 1873.
500 No more published.Physical description
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500 Numbers 500-502 incorrectly repeated in pagination.
500 Printed in double columns.Bibliography or bibliographical references included (504 field)
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504 Bibliography: pages 173-174.References (510 field)
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510 4 Fowler, M. Petrarch, page 127, Pet G 104Notes concerning the contents of the work
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500 Includes index.
500 "Petrarch and Laura": pages 204-210.Formal contents note (505 field)
Example: 505 0 1. Introduction -- 2. The young Petrarch -- 3. Petrarch's early poetry -- 5. Petrarch's poetic achievement -- 6. Death of Petrarch"With" note (for titles issued together)
Example: With: New experiments physico-mechanical, touching the spring of the air, and its effects ... / By the Honorable Robert Boyle Esq;. [2nd ed.] Oxford : Printed by H. Hall, printer to the University, for Tho. Robinson, 1662. -- An examen of Mr. T. Hobbes his Dialogus physicus de naturâ aëris. As far as it concerns Mr. R. Boyle's book of New experiments ... / by the author of those experiments. London : Printed by J.G. for Thomas Robinson ..., 1662. Issued together.
Gift note (541 field)
Example: 541 1_ $3 Rare copy 1: $c Gift of $a Laurent Ferri. $5 NIC
Copy-specific notes other than gift notes go on the holdings record, in 852 $z. This includes "With" notes for titles bound together subsequent to publication.