Cataloging Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century German Dissertations: Guidelines and Observations

The author provides historical background useful in understanding the title pages of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century German dissertations. Images of title pages are included, with details of bibliographic description, and Machine Readable Cataloging (MARC) coding, as well as links to examples of catalog records in the Yale Law Library catalog, MORRIS. This article also includes comments on Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules, Second Edition (AACR2) Rule 21.27 regarding the problem of authorship in early dissertations.